What about other poison besides green tators

Dave Warden · Mar 1, 2012

Always was told not to eat polk after it turned red and parsnip wasn' good till after a freeze, and MAIN question is on sour dock. There is smooth and crinckled. One is poison (smooth verses crinkled). My grandparents always picked them but which is which?

bingo · Mar 1, 2012

What is sour dock???

bill mart · Mar 1, 2012

rhubarb leaves ,berries from the pokeweed. bill

bingo · Mar 1, 2012

We don't have rbubarb?? around here, some kind of turnip ain't it? We have what is called "poke" salad, the old folks call it poke "salit" they say if you don't pour the water off it after the first boil it is poison, old folks say it is "piezin"

Anonymous-0 · Mar 1, 2012

Rhubarb.More like the red silver beet.

Dave in GA · Mar 1, 2012

Not a good idea to eat poison ivy or poison oak either. Or smoke it.

I grow some rhubarb and they say never eat the leaves.

ShadetreeRet · Mar 1, 2012

I don't care if it contains the "fountain of youth". If I have to worry WHEN to harvest it, or WHICH variety to harvest, I don't fool with it. There are enough tried and true veggies to suit me.

tjdub · Mar 1, 2012

It's called "sour" for a reason. Don't bother with it

You can eat sour dock but you have to boil it, then change the water and boil it again to get the poison out.

I think you're talking about sorrel though. Sorrel is a domesticated species. Still has the same poison "oxalic acid", but less quantity so you don't have to take extreme measures, just don't eat a whole lot of it at once.

We don't have wild sorrel here, just sour dock. Major weed in my hay fields. And I can tell you that the sour dock leaves are very much "crinkled".

Nate V. IA · Mar 1, 2012

Rhubarb leaves are poisonous buuuttt, I did the math once and a small child would have to eat about four pounds of the stuff to make you worry. The toxic compound is oxalic acid. I bet back in the day the livestock got into the rhubarb patch and ate a whole bunch of it and then died. That's my theory, you can do the math yourself.

Keith Molden · Mar 2, 2012

Fried Poke is good too. Dip it in egg (I think)
sure ate a bunch of it when we were kids. And Rhubarb pie is super good too. Keith

bjb in TX from Ne · Mar 2, 2012

Peach pits and apple seeds contain cyanide.
Tapioca comes from Cassava which also contains cyanide.

Most compounds are toxic in large dose. Vitamin A is an example. Ever notice you can not buy straight Vitamin A supplements....

dino in iowa · Mar 2, 2012

It is something, you want to introduce to a corn knife.

greygoat · Mar 2, 2012

Rhubarb...also called "Pie Plant".

Greg1959 · Mar 2, 2012

Warfarin/Coumadin is a blood thinner for humans and also used as a rat poision. It's potential use was discovered when a sailor tried to commit suicide in the 50's by eating rat poision. Now it is commonly used as a blood thinner.

Brian G. NY · Mar 2, 2012

Yeah Greygoat, I was taught as a kid that the leaves of rhubarb were poison.

Brian G. NY · Mar 2, 2012

bib, I know that is right.......
However, as a kid my brother and I used to crack the peach pits and eat the meats; look a little like almonds and taste a little bitter but not bad.
We also used to throw the apple seeds on the top of the old Kalamazoo kitchen wood stove and after they "popped" we ate them also.
Never did any harm to either of us.......I say this as my head twitches back and forth uncontrollably! LOL

buickanddeere · Mar 2, 2012

Don't eat too much of the rhubarb stalk at one sitting either.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 2, 2012

My chickens eat rhubarb leaves all summer.Their doing fine.

Dave Warden · Mar 2, 2012

tjdub, So you know what mustard greens look like? Grandparents liked this sheet, along with the dock and all, and hunted and picked it all the time. I've done the wild onions and old time garlic. Thats about it.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 2, 2012

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A

The reason why Xavier Mertz died in the Antarctic 1913 is they [2] ate the liver from their Huskies.Mawson survived.

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