We've heard it before, well, actually we knew nothing about it, but now we do. Eating Durian, known as the 'king of fruits', along with alcohol can kill you. John Maninang and Hiroshi Gemma from the University of Tsukuba, Japan believe that the lethal side effects might be due to stinky fruit’s high sulphur content which impairs alcohol breakdown.

The experiments have shown that Durian extract turned off the activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase by up to 70 per cent, reports New Scientist and this enzyme plays a vital role in clearing toxic breakdown products, and this enzyme plays a vital role in clearing toxic breakdown products.

We have all leaned something today!