Parts of edible plants you should never eat

[veggiechicken]

VC mentions not.
Are they not similar to carrot?

They can cause a reaction with skin, like blistering. Goggle it.

[veggiechicken]

A Comfrey fritter recipe

https://www.wildfooduk.com/wild-food...frey-fritters/

Note that the recipe relates to white comfrey - not the one that is grown for fertiliser - Bocking 14 or the other purple flowered comfreys.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

my comfrey is a white flowering plant

[greenishfing]

I once made a curry from Cauli leaves, gave me awful indigestion

I love cauliflower leaves. The inner, more tender ones.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

I love cauliflower leaves. The inner, more tender ones.

i love the "crunch"
I'm also sure that it was the curry that gave me indigestion and not the leaves

[Penellype]

There are quite a few weeds that can be eaten. This article has some useful pictures of some of them https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardenin...could-eat.html. You can also eat ground elder, which was apparently imported as a vegetable until its invasive tendencies were discovered. However, some weeds are poisonous, so if in doubt, don't eat it. I read somewhere recently that you are statistically more likely to die from accidental poisoning than from a car accident - a sobering thought!

[Guest]

No one has mentioned you shouldn't eat bitter tasting courgettes and squash https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ing_67687.html

[muck lover]

It’s a pity we can’t eat slugs.
Although I do recycle them into eggs.
I never pull out kale plants until they have started to put out seed shoots in spring. They’re delicious.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

someone mentioned this in a previous post about eating slugs, yuk.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodandd...tingstall.html

[Mitzi]

Basically... everything except the fruit of tomato, aubergine, peppers, tomatillo, cape gooseberry

I remember reading somewhere that chilli leaves are used in cooking in the Far East. I was surprised because I had assumed they might be toxic. Haven’t tried it myself.

[Penellype]

I remember reading somewhere that chilli leaves are used in cooking in the Far East. I was surprised because I had assumed they might be toxic. Haven’t tried it myself.

Mmmm, they also eat puffer fish in the far east, and that is extremely toxic if you eat the wrong part!