Fruit nuts, nicotine, and caffeine. You may have heard of them. All three are things that are often consumed as body stimulants. However, betel nut is very popular as a chewing stimulant: Almost a tenth of the global population enjoys them, the BBC reports. 
Chewing betel nut is one of thousands of years old tradition. The areca nut has a psychoactive substance that is the fourth most popular in the world, Healthline adds. The effect of chewing betel nut is similar to someone who drinks six cups of coffee a day. We know that coffee contains high caffeine and is not good for health if consumed in excess. Therefore, It should be avoided.
However, because it has the same function as caffeine, it is to maintain the vigilance of many workers engaged in long physical tasks of chewing betel nuts.
The problem is, betel nut is known to be very dangerous. This fruit has the potential to cause oral cancer and also horrible mouth wounds. The betel nut is predicted to be responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths, the BBC notes. In Taiwan, about 5,400 people receive a diagnosis of oral cancer every year; as much as 90 percent of them are chewing pinak. This situation is exacerbated by the way packed nuts are known as quids, which can be made by using carcinogens as in tobacco.
The last danger of this fruit is that it can produce small blisters in the mouth. These small blisters that can help carcinogens enter the body and make betel nut more dangerous to chew. Despite the dangers, betel nuts are referred to as "chewing gum" in Taiwan.
e cancer problems caused by betel nuts. Qiu Zhen-huang developed a hole in his cheek from chewing on a nut. A decade after he stopped using the stuff, he ended up with a golf ball-sized tumor.