The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s clinical description of tetrodotoxin is as follows: “The consumption of toxic amounts of tetrodotoxin results primarily in neurologic and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve never heard about the dangers of eating pufferfish, they’re more than just urban legend. Although routinely served at ...

Delicately sliced and arranged like a crane for this sashimi platter, fugu is pretty as a picture. For some diners, the risk and the myth around fugu-eating is precisely its charm. Photos Provided to ...

TOKYO >> The last course of my fugu meal in Japan was a flaming cup of sake with fugu fins. If you’re going to eat something that could kill you, you might as well get a little drunk. Fugu, also known ...

Have you ever heard of fugu, the notorious Japanese pufferfish? Containing a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin in its organs, fugu is one of the world’s most dangerous delicacies. In Japan, only ...

Every December, puffer fish get even, well, puffier, as they pack on fat to survive the chilly winter. And that’s when we snatch them up and eat them. In Japan, blowfish, puffer fish and globefish are ...

There are over 120 species of puffer fish, and 22 different kinds are approved by the Japanese government for use in restaurants. But one is more prized, and more poisonous, than the others: torafugu, ...

In case you didn’t know, tetrodotoxin is the lethal poison found in the internal organs (the liver, gonads, and ovaries, specifically) of that great Japanese delicacy called fugu, or blowfish.