SEEMINGLY HARMLESS FOODS

POTATOES
Your number one comfort food is trying to off you. That’s what you get for mashing it. Potatoes contain small amounts of a kind of chemical called solanines in their stems, leaves, and eyes. These chemicals are a natural fungicide and pesticide that the potato uses as defence.As the spuds get older, they accumulate solanine, which turns them a green colour. Every potato contains about 8-13 milligrams, and about 200 milligrams can make people sick. Eating a lot of old potatoes, or making potato leaf tea, can make people to hallucinate, turn hypothermic, feel nausea, and to develop eurological problems.

CASHEWS
These contain urushiol. It’s found in something feared by campers everywhere. Poison Ivy contains urushiol, and everyone knows what it does. Now imagine eating it. Cashews are only bad for you if you eat a huge amount, but urushiolreactions do happen to workers in plants where cashews are processed all day.

ALMONDS, CHERRIES, APPLES, APRICOTS, AND MANY OTHER SEEDS The fruits mentioned aren’t dangerous, but it houses a danger. The seeds of all of these, when ground up or even bruised, produces hydrogen cyanide. Yes, the pill that they gave spies to kill themselves if they got captured might have been made from ground-up almonds. Another word for hydrogen cyanide is prussic acid.

EGG WHITES
If you're going to eat that egg white omelette, make sure it's cooked. Egg whites contain trypsin inhibitors which stop you from being able to digest protein and lead to a slow, miserable death. Lima beans contain these, too.

EVERY GREEN THING YOU’VE EVER EATEN
Cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, spinach are all murderers. Also peaches, strawberries, and pears. Cauliflower. Bamboo shoots. All these contain goitrogens, which take out your thyroid and prevent iodine uptake. They cause enlarged thyroids over time. Soy also has it

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