Topic: Stupid question no 2000533 - what bits of veg are poisionous??

[piglit]

I have at the back of my mind that there are some veg that are bad for you.  But I have no idea which and when.  Something like tomatoes leaves?? Or Potaotes or beans?? While I am weeding I quite often stuff a little morsel of something in my mouth to keep me going - please can someone tell me what not to snack on?

Thanks,

piglit

[adamhill100]

Dont make cigars out of your Rhubarb leaves!  They are poisonous.

[aquilegia]

I'm allergic to tomato leaves - well at least the yellow pollen stuff that's on it makes my hands and arms itch after I've touched them.

Green spuds can give you an upset tummy.

[SpeedyMango]

...and as was mentioned here somewhere before, don't eat the green tomato-type fruit on your potato plants - they're poisonous.

[rdak]

runner bean roots are supposed to be poisonous, but who's going to eat those?!

[Mrs Ava]

Raw runner beans - very dodgy.  The leaves of the horseradish, spuds, rhubarb and tomatoes, all poisonous.  I am sitting here wracking my brain trying to think of what else, but the kids and they heat have gotten the better of me.  :-\

[piglit]

Seriously... raw runner beans??? I eat them all the time.  I knew there was a good reason to ask.  What will they do to me? What about french beans? Oh no.  What is the point of runner beans if I have to cook them??
Miserable piglit

[Mrs Ava]

Dunno if they are dodgy when small, but when the beans are bigger they are iffy.....I'm sure of it.  Oooer, now someone is going to have to correct me!

[john_miller]

Mature bean seeds have cyanide like compounds, EJ. This is why they should be boiled for twenty minutes before eating, as it breaks them down.
Piglit- I've never had a problem eating French beans raw, although I don't eat a lot at once, just in case.

[piglit]

I think technically I should be dead.  I have eaten hundreds of raw runner beans... I am off to look up cyanide poisioning to see if I can work out how close to death I am.

[john_miller]

By mature I mean when they are allowed to get quite hard- similar to the seeds that you sowed initially. Picked regularly, to avoid 'stringiness', as they should be, the seeds will not get this mature.