STAR FRUITS ARE SAFE!

NST - Nutritionists have jumped to the defence of the starfruit. They were unanimous in challenging a medical expert's opinion that the fruit was dangerous to renal failure patients. A medical expert with University Malaya Medical Centre had told a press conference on Tuesday that the fruit could be harmful to renal patients when he commented on retiree Tang Gon Seang, 66, from Butterworth, who went into a seizure and subsequently slipped into a coma in China after allegedly eating starfruit. A specialist at Shenzhen general hospital diagnosed his condition as being caused by the starfruit he had eaten.More about starfruit here