10 Common Foods That Can Actually Kill You
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2024
- Recently I was shooting some videos with my team and casually mentioned that apple seeds contained cyanide. The guys were blown away by this and had no idea that eating a high volume of crushed apple seeds could be poisonous, so it got me thinking, what other unexpected foods pose dangers to your health if not prepared properly? Today we talk about the risks of apple seeds, puffer fish or fugu, raw cashews, potato eyes and green potatoes, lychee, elderberries, rhubarb, red kidney beans, castor oil seeds or beans, and nutmeg. There are proper ways to grow and prepare all of these foods to reduce the risk of complications, so make sure you’re always aware of where your food comes from and how it’s made! Did any of these surprise you?
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Wow I'm early to this .
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Thats a video from 7 months agoooo but thanksss doctor mike.
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I like how he smiles enthusiastically while talking about things that can kill you
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@@sabithaajith3182 please shut up lol
Because he is speaking out of personal experience, and these memories make him smile.
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Don’t eat children
Eat life
I remember being scared as a child when people would tell me if I ate apple seeds, I would grow apples inside me. I never ate them and now I don’t even like apples. They did a good job scaring me.
Porb myth
thats tragic. i ate and still eat ALOT of apples
You must visit doctors alot 😂
They told me the same about watermelon seeds, lol.
I don't eat apples anymore either ;-;
A friend was killed by potato chips, he was run over by a Lays delivery truck.
that is the best plot twist🤣🤣
My relatives have huge cashew farms and when i visited them , i found out that raw unprocessed cashew is very flammable because of a certain oil and that oil is also very effective against termites too.
There was an incident here in Quebec last week about elderberries. A pretty popular company of ready-to-prepare smoothies sold a new recipe of smoothies with raw elderberries. A lot of people were sick, including pregnant ladies. The company offered a small discount for the next purchase in compensation. People were so mad! They appeared to be so healthy and nutritive, but they lost a lot of customers because of that because they weren't able to do proper research before making this recipe.
jen revenais pas! j’ai goûté a ce smoothie yetait tlm degueusse et j’ai eu mal au ventre des heures et des heures après
@@MC-ii7vf Je connais une fille enceinte qui a été hospitalisé à cause de ça! Son médecin lui a dit que si elle avait été en début de grossesse elle aurait pu perdre son bébé… Pis la compagnie lui a offert 20% de rabais t’sais!
@@charlotteboucherbeaulieu9677woah.. un beau 10$ pour la vie de ton enfant.. Ils ont tellement pas pris responsabilité de leur action en plus. Bref, faut pas tjrs croire les compagnies qui se disent “bio” & “naturel”, c’est pas que ça l’air santé que c’est bon pour toi et eux ont prouvés ça! anyways ils étaient pas buvables leurs smoothies
Those discounts do not fully compensate for what their customers went through. Now that I know the risks if elderberries, I will never eat them raw. However, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries it is open season. I was also shocked to learn that the skin of kiwi fruit is not only good for you, but enhances the nutritional value of the food.
I stayed with a host family on study abroad they got me apple juice that was sweetened with elder berry nectar. It messed up my stomach so bad.
As someone mildly allergic to poison ivy, it was enlightening to learn cashews come from the same family of plants and explained why my digestive system reacted poorly to eating them. It was also unfortunate, because I love cashews and have to severely limit the amount I eat for obvious reasons.
I’m literally allergic to cashews lol
How about mangoes? They're in the Anacardiaceae family too.
Umm. You must be eating them from the shell.... its the shell thst has the toxins. If roasted they are fine
Thanks for sharing! My husband is "stab him with epinephrine" allergic to poison ivy. Didn't know cashews cross reacted with poison ivy!
@@Skaffa I am not at all allergic to poison ivy, or poison oak, or bee stings for that matter. My dad used to have me pull all the poison ivy off the trees before he cut them down. I never wore gloves when doing this. My dad also accidentally dropped a swarm of honey bees on me when I was holding the ladder for him. I continued to hold the ladder while getting stung 23 times. I went to work right after getting the stingers out.
Does this mean my immune system is not protecting me?
Thank you for the information Dr Mike.
I've only used dried beans once! Because of the toxic issue I soaked them for hours and cooked it for a long time. I survived but the anxiety during the whole day of prep and cooking wasn't worth it. I went back to canned beans 🤣 Thanks for the great content Dr. Mike!
I boil mine for fifteen minutes, then simmer until tender (on my stove, about an hour or so). Soaking doesn't do anything about the toxicity, but it will help them cook faster and more evenly on the simmer side. I've been cooking beans for years, including kidney beans, and have never got sick using that method.
I understand your anxiety, but I see it as no different then making sure fish or chicken are properly cooked before eating.
Kidney beans are the only ones you have to worry about, but just getting them to a boil will make them safe. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes before adding to a slow-cooker.
@@FreonUWPYes, but you should throw the first water away (= getting them to boil, throw the water, then cook in new water)
I don't think there's any real reason to throw the water away, and there's no reason you shouldn't if you want to. You do you! But definitely rinsing them to get the dirt off the good start.@@veroniquejeangille8248
The apple one was interesting. I knew apple seeds if consumed in high quantities can cause cyanide poisoning, but I thought the apples itself had it. However our body breaks down the chemical into cyanide. Cool fun fact. Anyways, back to biochem homework.
How’s your homework going lol
Body be like: "Hmmm, don't need this.
Let's reduce this to poisonous substance. Way more useful now"
I'm also a Biochem student and interested in how your homework is going
@@Feral_Fruit I’m going to be a biochem student in september, how is it? I find what I’ve done so far (respiration, photosynthesis etc) very interesting
But the amount of Apple seeds you would have to eat to die is enormous and I think one could not consume them fast enough however there are effects on your body even before you die but who even eats that many apple seeds
As someone who suffers from nearly daily hallucinations, they are no joke. Don't allow yourself to get them from food or lack of sleep, it's really difficult to fall out of.
I mean or stop eating what gives you the hallucinations so they stop....
@@ryanclemons1 ummm- that's not why I have hallucinations. I can't fix insomnia. Plus, my hallucinations are why I can't sleep :|
@@lonelysimp2006 oh you are talking night terrors? That happens to me too but only when I go on an alcoholic binge, I won’t sleep for days and then I hallucinate scary stuff like demons and such, then when I do fall asleep it’s straight nightmares so then they wake me up too
@@jesusgutierrez1446 ehhhh kinda. I'm underage so I don't drink lol. Regardless, I wouldn't consider them night terrors. The only scary thing I hallucinate is a feminine scream. I mainly hallucinate my family or pets. I just can't sleep in general, when hallucinations are added it gets more difficult. I get a max of 4 hours of sleep at night. However, I normally don't sleep at all.
I love your prp
i've been suffering from calcium oxalate kidney stones the last 10 years of my life, i would be so thankfull for a video about how to avoid them!
Dr ken Berry has vids on kidney stones
Wow 🫣 Thank you so much for sharing this very important information Doctor Mike 🙏🏼
When I was growing up, I was taught that the pits to fruit are poisonous. Peach/cherries/plums etc. I also learned that apple/pear seeds contained cyanide so it was partially right. So I don't eat hard seeds, except pomegranates.
Thank god I never ate the seed
As a kid I was told if you eat a seed it will grow a tree in my stomach, ))
...citrus seeds are healthy too....
In general, the fruits are healthy, seeds are not to eat but to create plants or trees so people should avoid eating seeds.
I hate watermelon seeds
I live in the South, so red kidney beans are practically a staple here, but seeing them on this list actually reminded me of something that I saw in the news. A few years back, there was a local pharmacy that kept getting broken into by addicts looking for Lortabs. To fight back, the family who owned/operated the place hid their actual supply, but filled the bottles with red kidney beans. I don't know if the thieves ever actually poisoned themselves with the beans, or even if they got caught, but the break-ins stopped.
wow that is cool also what does lortabs mean
@@melissacook9210 Lortabs are an opioid mixed with Tylenol.
cool also red kidney beans are stuipd🤣
So are u not allowed to eat not cooked kidney beans..?
@@zaiiieditz2941 raw or undercooked kidney beans will make you sick.
Very informative, thank you🎉
eThank you so much Doc for opening our minds. it's pleasure to get such a kind & good Dr like you.. keep up of good job
My chemistry teacher once said: "Everything is poisonous, it's just the amount that makes the difference"
Even drinking too much water can kill you so yeah
Well if you chug 10 liters of water in 5 hours of course your body will shut down
Yarp, I thought somebody once died because he drank 11 liters of water a day..
Great line
Thus spoke Paracelsus.
water poisoning!!! Its like alcohol poisoning but with water
I watched a video where a chemist broke down how dangerous apple seeds were. After extracting as much amygdalin as possible and measuring the byproduct he concluded you would need to consume nearly 11 cups of apples seeds to reach a fatal level. I may be miss remembering, but I think he said that's around 14,000 apples per day.
@@cl0ver911 You can keep the whole WHO at bay with this amount
Even if you had a huge never-ending appetite for apples, if you take into account 6 hours of sleep, that would still require you to eat 13 apples a minute all day. I don't think that's logistically possible.
@@Pannenkoekenplantje go straight for the seeds and ditch all the rest, duh. Don't let stupid logistics stay in the way of morbid curiosity!
While cyanide has limited effects in less than lethal dose, it still causes organ strain and potentially damage long term.
Appleseed cynaide juice😂
My heart felt so proud I don't know why when he spoke India..I was literally waiting for a long time to hear it from him...thank u doctor..you fulfilled my wish😊😊😊😊love from India ❤❤❤❤❤
New subscriber always watching your videos Doctor very helpful❤
As doctors, we tell our patients: foods are safe in moderation, and dangerous in excess! Although those rarer things like polar bear liver or incorrectly prepared pufferfish can be dangerous even in tiny amounts!
so technically every amount of polar bears or pufferfish is excess, haha
nerd.
Polar bear WHAT
@@mmaaxx___ Yuppp!! A tiny amount can have a lethally high amount of vitamin A, because their diet consists of seals and fish that are already high in vitamin A that accumulates in the polar bear's liver
@@mmaaxx___ liver
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I’m 10 years old
Your not meany to tell your age
@@quit9488 bet you are younger
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I always had a feeling that something was off about potatoes when they turned green, and good to see some confirmation from a medical professional.
I knew long ago green potatoes had a poison. That fact seems to not matter to most grocery stores. Here's looking at you Walmart!
That could be a big problem for me and many other men who are partially color blind and don't see green very well.
@@leaonardland9001 I see.
This is the first time I have come to your channel I liked this video so much that I have subscribed to the channel
He is the only guy who is so happy while telling us that our regular food eating a little wrong is our death
LOVE Dr Mike
Don't bring potatoes into this... If we test for radon in our basements because it's common in certain places... And alpha particles are dangerous to ingest... Forget bananas to compare to airplane radiation... What about potatoes 🥔 Po-tait-oh
"Also just because potatoes are technically a vegetable doesn't mean they can replace your broccoli at dinner. I'm watching you."
*gulps*
Ha-ha! In Belgium, potatoes are not considered as a vegetable but a staple food, same as rice, pasta, etc. So it never replaces our greens ;-). This is not the same in France, where potatoes are considered as a regular vegetable.
you teach me so much,thank you🤗☺
Very informative.
Fun fact you didn't mention about fugu meat: Their toxins are created only when they eat a type of shellfish which is normally in their diet, but if they're farm raised and not fed those shellfish, they aren't poisonous. (Most fugu is farm raised btw)
Oh wow I didn't know that!
if humans wants something we will find a way to do it, eating is no different.
But humans are also not supposed to find ways to eat things that are not supposed to be eaten
Wow! I did not know that! I've always known about Fugu (y'know anime and stuff), but I didn't know this. The more you know
@@jackpeters1892 na verdade eles podem sim, não a nada de errado com isso
I actually learned about those foods my freshman year of high school when I took a kitchen chemistry course. It taught me some great stuff like foods that are toxic if improperly prepared, as well things like how antifreeze needs bitter agents added to prevent people from drinking it due to the extreme sweet taste of it.
Thank you so much for warning us mike thank you
Well thank you for this info. I was about to get an elderberry plant to put out front near my porch. But knowing we have pets and kids in this neighborhood I don't want to even chance it that they'd eat the leaves. I think I'll go with a blueberry bush instead.
I'm missing one: cinnamon! If made from cassia bark it contains coumarin. It is also found in high doses in the tonka bean which is forbidden to use in a lot of countries. Not in the Netherlands though luckily as it's harmless when handled properly and the aroma's are amazing. Tonka has aroma's of vanilla, rum, almond, clove and cinnamon. Works perfectly in an eggnog or even ice cream. The solids have to be strained out though.
This needs to be pinned
This needs to be pinned
Be pinned, this needs to
Remember when kids were trying to breathe in cinnamon? The pinnacle of priviledge, playing with your life to get likes.
@@Ruby-yn5fp Yeah, exactly this. The cinnamon challenge can be really, really dangerous because if cinnamon reaches the lungs it can cover up the alveoli making it nearly impossible to do the exchange of CO2 and oxygen meaning you could suffocate while still breathing. I think Mike made a video on that as well.
As a Chef, I love this. I've seen some incompetent people prepare food that nearly put their restaurant on the extinction list because they didn't know how to properly handle the food they were using. We are one of the few professions that create things people consume. Unfortunately not enough people are properly trained on how to handle certain ingredients or food in general. Good video as always.
I still think these type of things aren't addressed enough in culinary school though. I had lessons in food safety but that's all about preventing cross contamination, what temperature to cook chicken on, storage temps. The basic stuff but nothing about how things like rhubarb-leaves can actually kill people. Luckily rhubarb is sold with the leaves already taken off over here but a lot of other things can be just as bad such as cassia cinnamon or as mentioned by Dr. Mike: nutmeg.
@@NickyHendriks straight up I learned alot of these as a kid cause my grandma used to have a massive garden that I would help tend. As far as culinary school is concerned I think it depends on the school. The school I went to had a mandatory dietary course where we went over alot of these as popular foods that if not prepared properly can harm or kill.
@W H Fitzgerald you are not wrong. I do think it's played up a bit for TV however.
I'd heard the bit about kiwi skin being healthy but this is the first time I've heard to avoid it if you're prone to kidney stones, which I am. Good knowledge to have. I'll continue to peel my kiwis.
For people who have high acids I recommend adding brim sugar to your beans. I don’t know the chemical explanation behind it but it helps a lot to….I guess neutralize the stuff? But it helps
I am from India, the lychee issue had been a disaster. Thousands of cases arose a couple of years back, in my state, Bihar. It was deadly.
I ever had one and nothing happened
@@mbismbismb they dont seem to affect older people and usually the children from poorer families are the ones most at risk cause they sometimes go for a day without eating anything other than the berries which then causes severe hypoglycemia
I remember my dad telling us a story from back when he was a kid. People in their neighbourhood who kept chicken usually let them sleep on the branches of trees when night time comes. Dad's group of friends bring raw cashews on barbecue sticks, hold them under the tree and light the cashews on fire. After a couple of minutes, the chickens just fall off the branches and Dad's friends just pick them up and run off
Omg, that's wild! Good share, thanks
But why
Interesting.
This is so random, what country was this?
@@fmjjjjn7510 Probably Romania LMAO
Wow amazing editing
I love Dr. Mikhail
Fun fact: The national fruit of my country, Jamaica is ackee. Ackee is actually poisonous if not prepared properly, as it contains hypoglycin A and B. You have to wait until it opens, remove the seeds, clean it and cook it properly in order to be safe from the poison.
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@@xwynter759 no offene but it kinda looks like a goggle
@@jamarlucman1603 Literally shut up 😐
@@trinyv9105 why, theyre not hurting anyone
@@moo8866 It wasn't a funny joke to make, please mind your business
Throwback to my toxicology course during my Master's studies 😂🤓 They used to hold the "Food Toxicology" lecture where they talk about mold toxins in nuts, cadmium in chocolate and cyanogenic glycosides in bitter almonds right before Christmas break 😂
Gotta make sure you bring samples to pass out for "analysis" as part of the lecture
Cadmium is found in most spices these days 😵
In my pharmacy degree i was told at least 10 separate times about nut mould too!
CADMIUM?
4:25 I see that persimmon's have gotten very popular these days finding them in Costco and other stores. Apparently if you eat them unripe they can literally damage your stomach lining.
"That's why apple seeds taste bitter"
Respect to the guy who risked his life and told the taste
Universe: *creats fish so deadly, that one bite could kill you*
Humans: _"Yeah... Ima eat it anyway."_
Take that universe!!
I moved to Germany a couple years ago and here we have elderberry trees growing everywhere. I was this 🤏🏼 close to gathering them and freezing them to use as blueberries in my smoothie😱😂 my german husband had no idea about their toxicity. And actually I have eaten some off the tree and didnt feel anything, but im talking 1 or 2 berries. I mentioned this to my german boss at work, and thank god I did, cos she was like WHAT!??? noononononnnoo!!!😂
The berries are not poisons lol make elderberry cordial and drink it on nice late summer evenings
@@salerio61 raw elderberries contain a weak toxin, but it is not heat stable.
@@AlphaCentauriB who cares, every plant does
Everytime I go to my grandmas place I just pick a handfull of those berries and worse case scenario is a stomach ache, never really had issues with it, but apparently my mom has eaten A LOT of those berries and she can confirm that you definitly do not want to eat too much
But again, just a handful should be fine
I refuse to eat anything that has not been properly cooked. That is why I like my steak well done. That guarantees that it is fully cooked.
I can bet on my life that 100% of the people aging between 10-16 years clicked on this video because the thumbnail says cashews are poisonous
actually i didn't, i made a video like this earlier and was trying to know if my content was different.
Hello. I have elderberry tree and make juice and jams from them mixed with apples. I sometimes even let leaves go in the juicemaker to sterilize all for later use in bottles. Am glad to know their danger from your link. Thank you.
I have a friend who always eats apple cores and thinks this means he's building an immunity. I haven't told him yet that building an immunity logically involves a gradually increasing amount of the thing you want to be immune to...
and remember, tomato is a fruit, too XD (but wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad ;) )
That’s like trying to build an immunity to fire.
It's fine to eat apple seeds, the real danger comes when you bite into one
@@pigi1004 uh what...
@@eshika8995 what do you mean what
IIRC, green tomatoes (and tomato rellatives) also contain a decent amount of solanine, especially if eaten raw
Thank you for telling about the green potatoes. The other day at the store, an employee was putting out green potatoes. I said they shouldn't sell those, and she said there wasn't anything wrong, they were just a little green. She didn't believe me when I told her they were poisonous.
Omg Minecraft was right?!?!
@@tattut5950 🤣🤣🤣 yes
For what I am about to say I would like to preface with "I grew up on a potato farm and was the third generation to do so."
You can cut the green part of the potatoes off and it is perfectly fine to eat. You just have to go far enough into the potato for it not to look green anymore. The potatoes turn green when exposed to light. It is why potatoes used to be stored in thick paper bags that were sewn shut and not the clear plastic bags of today with their twisty ties. The thicker paper kept the light (from the sun or lightbulbs) off the potatoes. I understand that people want to see the potatoes in the bag to see if they have eyes or are green, but all it is doing is exposing the potatoes to light and turning them green thereby defeating the purpose.
When you get your potatoes home, store them where they won't be exposed to high levels of light. Not the fridge. A root cellar or other cool, low light area. People used to have wooden boxes with lids called vegetable bins where they stored potatoes, onions and the like.
Bonus: If you have a vegetable garden and your potatoes start to sprout just plant them. I think you quarter them and then plant them and you will have potato plants for yourself. Watch a video on how to do that because we had machines that cut them in pieces for planting (and before that it was grandmas in a root cellar).
Thank you for reading my farm rambling. 😁
@@tattut5950 LMAO I was literally thinking the same before I opened the replies and saw ur comment
This has just made me think of when you open a chip packet and sometimes there's that one little chip that is green
This is helping me a lot
Thanks! From Philippines!
Fun story - the first time I traveled to Thailand, I went to an island where cashews grow wild. I had no idea at the time that raw cashews were poisonous and picked one off a tree to eat it. I started chewing and immediately felt a tingling sensation in my mouth, so I spit it out. For the next week or so, the inside of my mouth, my gums, and tongue were swollen, and I also had poison-ivy-like blisters all around my very swollen lips. While not a good time, I still think to this day what could have happened if I had actually eaten that cashew while alone and hours from anywhere in the jungle.
Me too
oh dang are you okay now?
@@ILOVEEMINEMXOXO Haha yes, totally fine after a week or two. That was a few years ago. But thanks for the concern!
And I still very much enjoy cashews. Roasted, of course 😉
at least your okay now, that must have been pretty traumatic
You ate the nut or the fruit?
Summary:
1. Apple seeds [0:12]
2. Fugu/Puffer fish [0:40]
3. Rhubarb [1:25]
4. Elder Berries [2:06]
5. Red Kidney Beans [2:51]
6. Castor Oil Seeds or Beans [3:36]
7. Lychee [4:05]
8. Nutmegs [5:04]
9. Potatoes [6:08]
10. Cashews [6:46]
11. Kiwi Skin [7:16]
Ty
Bruh don't do this kind of stuff he spends so much time on these videos and u just turn it into 2 seconds
Thanks ❤️
@@whale2710 its for the convienience for us and satisfies the viewers, wdym
@@rrrrre2905 yeah
Another amazing video, you know a lot. I actually eat kiwi fruit skin anyways my friends say I’m weird 😂
Love the Tesla warning sound @2:18
Fun fact: Litterally anything can kill you, in large enough amounts, for many different reasons.
Lots of the ways you could go, just because you got too much, can lead to extremely violent deaths. Please only take what you need, and a little bit of what you want. If someone trustable tells you not to get a certain amount of something, trust them and go below that limit.
Even water
@@staigenerator2949 true. Drinking too much water at a given time can actually drown you.
@@staigenerator2949 oxygen
@@Endor2001 no. You die from water intoxication when drinking too much water.
@@TheAterron basically a form of drowning.
My brother randomly came to me with a kiwi one day and he told me to bite into it like an apple. I didn’t trust him but he said he saw it on UA-cam. I finally listened and tried it and it was SO GOOD! It was a combination of sweet and sour because the fruit is sweet and the skin is sweetish sour. I always do this now and I’m glad to know it’s also healthier. PS: don’t forget to wash it.
it tastes like sh
but he said that it can develop kidney stone!!! so should we eat it or not?? or should be eaten with some precautions?
Whatttt seeds?!?
I did that, my throat felt like I ate glass and I started throwing up. I guess I am allergic to kiwi !! The only thing I am allergic to. Weird !!
@@srishty7097 bro he said not to eat it if u have had kidney stones before it dosent cause it
Doctor Mike, Biggest fan! Can you make a video about Scoliosis?
It would mean a lot to me! I have scoliosis
The quote “ an apple a day keeps the doctor away” makes me scared of apples because of the seeds now.Bc of what dr.Mike said😅😅😅😅
I used to live in north india, and for the longest time, i thought that only the Lychee seed was poisonous. So, every day as a kid, just as the lychee tree right outside my house would get ripe enough that they were edible (they were still pretty unripe though) I would climb the lychee tree and eat a couple hundered lychees in one afternoon. And i would do this every day till there were absaloutly no lychees left (it took about 2 weeks on average). I am super surprised the only symptoms i ever suffered from was a slightly upset stomach because of all the acidity in the not full ripened lychees.
Now the question is, was it the acidity or just the amount combined with climbing on a tree
@@rpb4865 yeah i didnt know rajma was poisonous either
@@rpb4865 same
@@rpb4865 same
I started eating kiwi skins in middle school because everyone thought it was weird and I thought it was funny (attention seeker), but then I just never stopped and I still do it 15 years later. Good to know there are benefits beyond just my own amusement. 👍
I grew up with my grandparents who live in BC growing rhubarb. We would just break it off, wash it and keep the water on then dip it in brown sugar and just eat it raw
“An apple a day, keeps the doctor away” more like “A doctor a day, keeps the apple away”
I watched a video of a guy who forage in his neighborhood, he explains that every plants has "defense mechanism" to prevent them from getting eaten by predators, decades of alteration to make vegetables and fruit more tasty, more meaty, more safe makes these "defense mechanism" weaker and more neglectable if taken in moderation but they're still there
There’s this generally agreed upon theory in nutrition that the ideal diet is diverse but not particularly varied. It’s because of this^^ your body is evolved to handle basically everything that doesn’t kill you right away but it takes time for chemicals to adjust so eating like 40 different vegetables in a 60 day period is like forcing your body to go through mild chemotherapy. It’s not necessarily bad one time but definitely causes problems over time. In reality it’s not buying every different vegetable from the grocery store so much as eating an organic cereal bar with eighteen different vegetable ingredients then deciding next week you’ll try a different brand made with ingredients from the opposite side of the globe.
Have you also seen bananas before we domesticated them. They are oval shaped and have some super chunky seeds!!
When my mother was little she bit a cashew nut, her mouth showed allergic symptoms immediately. Here in Brazil they are very common but we are very careful with them.
Cashews is toxic shudnt be eaten by humans
YASSSS Smiling from ear to ear. Been eating kiwis like an apple since I was little. Family need to stop looking at me like im crazy cuz I don't peel them. Sharing this rn!
What's unfortunate about potatoes is that if a novice decides to grow some at home they might see the fruit and decide to try it because they look just like green tomatoes (they are actually closely related). But they will do you a world of harm because they share a lot of the same toxins with their other relative, the deadly nightshade.
And for the record idk if it's just the seeds that are toxic or if it's the whole fruit? Not worth the risk though. 😂
i still don't understand how this can be amusing and interesting at the same time, i mean biology classes feel like if someone is constantly kicking you in the face with a basket ball but these feel like scoring at the buzzer and then knowing you did something actually good. i just love this
Fun fact: The Solanaceae Family of plant species contains Potatoes, Tomatoes, Eggplants, Bell Peppers, and Chili Peppers.
The more commonly known term for the Solanaceae Family of plants is Nightshade.
That's good to know about the kiwi skin. Someone brought one to school one day and I ate the full thing. The skin isn't too bad if you get over feeling of it.
I got high in nutmeg at boarding school 20 years ago. Saw stars and felt ok. Can confirm eating nutmeg powder is not easy
Legit got cyanide poisoning from bitter almonds I bought at a market in Spain that were marked as Marcona almonds. I noticed a lot were bitter at the time, but didn't think anything of it and we ate the whole container. When my sister and I had to be taken to the hospital from the cruise ship the next day, they figured out what caused it. My little sister got it worse despite having fewer as she was 13 at the time and nearly died. Worst pain of life and I've had natural childbirth.
*Eric Berg says to Eat the Citrus Rind !!!*
*I Did that & I Got MaSSive RED ITCH Sores ALL Over my Body!!!!*
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Hey Mike, BTW, rhubarb isn't "botanically a vegetable" as "vegetable" isn't a botanical term, it is only a culinary term. Fruit on the other hand is both a botanical and culinary term. A Cucumber for instance is a botanical fruit, but a culinary vegetable,
yup
You just blew my mind with that information 🤯🤯
this is the best explaination yet.
Tomatoes are botanically a fruit, but a vegetable in culinary.
Cucumber is a berry.
So what is rhubarb botanically knows as?
I never knew that cashews can kill you ! Actually,I love cashews .Thank you Dr. Mike for sharing the information.
| had colon Cancer and at my most desperté point I read in the internet one of those holistic pages that Apple and pear seeds were useful to kill cancer cells. I did eat apple seeds and pear seeds(not many) but when I talk with my doctor she was horrified and told me exactly what was mentioned here. Thank you for helping and clarifying all of those health myths. I am cancer free now I am a very rational person but sometimes desperation makes you do stupid things.
I freaked out at first when I saw potatoes as one of the foods on the list (because potatoes are one of my favorite foods), but when I heard that potatoes are not poisonous in the usual way that I consume them, I chilled out.
They can be poisonous if not properly prepared. Like one story I heard, where a bunch of potato's was in a family's basement and cause they was improperly stored n most likely rotted, they produced a poisonous gas.
I was also shocked bc literally TODAY I ate some potatoes that looked green😳But I’m okay , no symptoms ( yet omg😫🤣)
All nightshade plants, those in the family Solanaceae, will contain solanine in varying amounts. Potatoes have a lot in their leaves and berries, which resemble tomatoes since they're related, but which should never be eaten. Green potatoes form when the tubers are exposed to sunlight while growing, which is why gardeners and farmers will hill up the plants by adding extra mulch to hide any exposed tubers from the sun. Raw potatoes of any kind will still contain a small amount of solanine, which is why you should cook them thoroughly, although studies are inconclusive on whether this causes a significant reduction. Underripe nightshade fruits like green tomatoes or eggplants also have higher levels of solanine, so it's recommended you boil or pickle them first.
Potatoes and tomatoes are both members of the Deadly Nightshade family. Every part of the plants--except the part we eat--is toxic, and, as mentioned, those parts can be toxic if not eaten at the right time.
when I saw the potato part my first thought was "the poisonous potatoes in Minecraft are real"
Dr. Mike literally SAVES LIVES not only by his content, but by his profession. I really wish I could be that cool! In fact, I might even consider switching my major from finance and comp science to pre med. Not for the honor of being a doctor (which is rightfully earned by doctors however), but to help people.
The kiwi got me has I was watching this video while Snacking with some kiwis on my plate ❤🎉
When I was a kid we had a large Rhubarb patch. I used to take a shaker of salt to the garden and eat the Rhubarb stalks raw while sprinkling with salt. Never got sick.
Should have mentioned high-mercury large fish, which people might actually eat daily and be poisoned.
Also curious about the compound found in Sarsaparilla and black pepper-how bad is it actually?
Its not THAT bad unless your consuming it in ungodly amounts
Similar to root beer made from actual natural ingredients
Try eating tuna every day...that's dangerous
Mercury from seafood is one of those things that's, for almost everyone, not a real concern.
Your diet would need to be basically reliant on seafood to have a real shot at a poisoning or death risk.
According to Melanie McGrice, a renowed dietitian, you'd have to eat 3 cans a day for half a year to start having risk of poisoning. It's doable, but eating a can everyday is still not enough as your body can get rid of it slowly, mercury poisoning from diet is extremely rare
It's only MDA; you're fine. ;-) You'll just end up being happy and loving everyone.
I'm a freshman in med school,and you're one of the reasons i went to medical school, greeting from libya 🇱🇾 ,keep up the good work❤💯👌
Such an underwhelming comment
@Volk I really don't have to explain my self to you but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, what I meant that he inspired me to be in this major and made me wanna help people as well which is the most important thing a bout this field nothing more
This video feels like the end of a Drug commercial, but on a 8~ minute loop. Very informative.
Who else is eating cashews while watching this?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Doctor Mike: "Cashew is poisonous, like Ivy"
My Cashew-obsessed brother: *calmly continues eating cashew nuts in the background*
In the bible the story of cane and abel if u had to guess which brother was allergic to cashews
There's a dish in Brazil called "Tacacá" that contains a poisoned leaf and if it's not cooked for 7 days in a row it can kill you. It's an amazing dish btw ♥️ So tasty
I thought exactly in it haha, and in the "Tucupi" salsa 😅
Why tf would you eat it then?
II love that half the things he says I don’t know what it means but I still watch his channel all the time😅
I do love eating a quite a lot of nutmeg in my rum punch ❤ but I did know they can be trouble. 2-3tsp isn’t much though so I better be even more careful!!!
Doctor Mike teaches everything better than any biology teacher out there!!! Wow okay (this is an edit!) ive never got so many likes and thank you so much for hearting my comment dr mike!!!
Exactly he uses normal words and says it in a non complex way where it wont confuse you
Yep
He also does a superficial overview that is only a fraction of the depth an actual teacher needs to do.
Well I mean he is a doctor...
So true
Omg 😱
I didn’t know all those thing were like that!! I’m telling my mom right away 😭
Thank you Doctor Mike for teaching me!!! 😄🫶
Maybe teach yourself through own experience? Stop relying on others and certainly not people with positions claiming to be "experts" no one is an "expert" as we have no idea of anything in the grand scheme of things, however logical based thinking and experience in whichever you try and unravel may lead to clues, your death or nothing, still try is try.
Doctor mike i love u reacting
We actually had a question on the lychees in a biology test because we were learning about the endocrine systems at my school, cool to see them show up here
What was the question?
Didn't know myself until we had a mass horse poisoning event in Australia.
Out of common sense, if a fruit has a name same as the blood sucking worms, leeches , you don’t even touch that ,
Thank you! You've changed my life. I always (used to) eat apple seeds. I thought it was just another nutrient. And you've also provided a creative guidebook for successful poisoners.
Well, I've had everything on this list except Fugu. I remember the adults teaching very early on what was safe and what wasn't. Living in the foothills of Appalachia we tended to run wild so early training was important.
Nice that you mentioned that vegetable is in US sorted as fruit. Same as watermelon and cantalope... Both are vegetables but in Wikipedia it's fruit eventhough they are pumpkins...
OMG!! Im salvadorian so red kidney beans are a major part of our food. I always saw that mum would take hours to cook them. I never really questioned it since its always been a thing ever since I can remember. That is really cool to know mum was saving us :)
Same
The Cyanide one is what almost killed my dog 7 years ago. He got into a bunch of cherries from the tree in our backyard and since he's only 5lbs it didn't take much for him to go into Liver failure. He was just a year and a half at the time and it's ruined his digestion ever since. Very glad he made it through cause it was a scary touch and go situation! Watch what your pets do outside, especially if you have fruit trees near by.
Omg I didn't read the almost at first, and thought your dog died. So glad that he's still fine!
@@solar0windother then a sensitive tummy he is a very happy, active, 8 year old forever puppy!
Grapes are also very poisonous for dogs (and raisins too).
@@jg6332 probably as the seeds of cherries, peaches, apricots, etc. all contain amygdalin just like apple seeds and bitter almonds which is then broken down into cyanide
glad he survived. Cherry pits, apricot pits, bitter almonds... all very dangerous.
i can predict gen z tic toc challenges coming out of this
Me reading a recipe for breaded elderberry flowers in the oven: "Carefully remove all the green parts.. carefully...who's got time for that?".
Me during a waterpolo match the same afternoon: *violent stomach cramps* "must get out of water before...before..."