Ackee

Fruits from Jamaican ackee tree - Blighia sapida, Sapindaceae sp., and other tropical plants... 

Meda HA, Diallo B, Bucket JP, Lison D, Barennes H, Ouangre A, Sanou M, Cousens S, Tall F, Van de Perre P. Epidemic of fatal encephalopathy in preschool children in Burkina Faso and consumption of unripe ackee (Blighia sapida) fruit. Lancet 1999 353(9152) 536-40. 

Larson J, Vender R, Camuto P. Cholestatic jaundice due to ackee fruit poisoning. Am J Gastroenterol 1994 89(9) 1577-8. 

Lebo DB, Ditto AM, Boxer MB, Grammer LC, Bonagura VR, Roberts M. Anaphylaxis to ackee fruit. J Allergy Chn Immunol 1996 98(5 Pt l) 997-8. 

Ackee is a fruit-bearing tree distributed throughout Africa, the Caribbean, and tropical areas. 

SUSTENANCE To boost that spent adrenaline, try the grilled lobster, or your choice of chicken or shrimp in homemade jerk sauce. Animal lovers can veg out on Rasta pasta with ackee and tomatoes. 

The Caribbean s hanging harvest includes (clockwise from top) bunches of sea grapes egg-textured ackee sweet, sweet sapodilla. 

From ackee and guinep to sapodilla and star apple, tropical fruits come in all shapes, sixes, textures and flavors. And in many parts of the Caribbean, they re reach... 

As soon as I arrive someplace in the Garibbean, 1 ask the locals, Where do you eat You can go to fancy restaurants, but you can also eat in simple places and have the greatest meals. I love escovitch. Festival bread, ackee. .. everything. And I love watching people cook — that s how I collected a lot of the recipes that... 

EMA aciduria maybe associated with several other inherited and acquired conditions, including (1) glutaric acidemia type II (some cases are actually labeled to have ethylmalonic adipic aciduria),(2) disorders of the intramitochon-drial flavin adenine dinucleotide pathway, (3) mitochondrial respiratory chain disorders, and (4) ethylmalonic encephalopathy. Jamaican vomiting sickness (due to ingestion of unripe ackee fruit containing the poison hypoglycin A) and ifosfamide treatment represent two additional causes of ethylmalonic aciduria. 

A number of other inhibitors of fatty acid oxidation have been reported in the literature [81,86, 140-142] including 2-bromopalmitoyl-CoA, bromoacetyl-CoA and S-methanesulphonyl-CoA decanoylcamitine, all inhibitors of carnitine palmitoyltransferase, 4-pentenoic acid, an inhibitor of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase and acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase, and hypoglycin, a compound isolated from the Jamaican ackee fruit (Blighia sapida) which potently inhibits several acyl-CoA dehydrogenases. The toxicity associated with these compounds or their expense have precluded further development as hypoglycaemic agents. 

Other cyclopropanes include two natural but highly unusual amino acids. Hypoglycin is a blood sugar level lowering agent from the unripe fruit of the ackee tree. It s the causative agent... 

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