In daily life, many people like to eat betel nuts. However, areca is a carcinogenic food. For citizens, if they eat it regularly, it will seriously harm their health. Areca nut has been taken off the shelves by many municipal supervision bureaus recently. Will Hunan ban Areca nut? What is the attitude of the Hunan government towards areca? Let's take a look.
Latest price of betel nut It is known that areca is a specialty of Hunan Province. Data shows that nearly 26 million people in Hunan like to chew betelnut, accounting for 30% of the total population in Hunan. The International Cancer Research Center has identified betel nut as a Class I carcinogen as early as 2003, but there are still many people who like to chew betel nut.
Recently, Zhejiang and Sichuan have also explicitly prohibited food stores from selling betel nuts. At present, Hunan has not banned food stores from selling betel nuts. As early as 2019, Hunan Betel Nut Association issued a document requiring all betel nut production enterprises to stop all advertising in China, which was considered as an initiative to "survive by cutting the tail". But now the annual output value of areca in Hunan is up to 30 billion yuan. If it is completely stopped, it will seriously affect the economy of Hunan Province.