If offered at all, use only tiny pieces of plain ripe lychee flesh. Remove the seed and peel — both pose choking risk. High sugar content may upset digestion in larger amounts. Avoid syrup-packed, canned, and sweetened products.
Lychee is a tropical fruit with rough red skin, translucent sweet flesh, and a large glossy seed, sold fresh, canned, frozen, or in sweetened beverages and desserts.
Usually peeled and seeded before serving fresh. Also sold as canned cups, jelly cups, bubble-tea toppings, and fruit drink flavoring.
Canned lychee is often packed in syrup and more concentrated in sugar than fresh. Processed forms like jelly cups and bubble-tea add-ins are sweetened further — remove seeds before setting out shared plates.
