Scary but True things you really didn't want to know about your Garden

[Detlor Poultry]

Some of the following are solid facts. Others are plausbibly true but I'm too scared to test them.

- Potatoes are very closely related to the deadliest plant in the North and Western Hemispheres, the Deadly Nightshade. And the Nightshade's most poisonous prospect is it's root.
- Morning Glory seeds contain LSA. Nobody tries to get high off the seeds, though. They contain so much that they would almost indefinately kill you with just a few seeds.
- And sweet potatoes are very closely related to them.
- Most Dandelions are an epidecompatible Diuretic. That means they are a diuretic, AND it's attributes can get into your system through porlonged exposure to your skin. So weed before you go to bed if you want to get up extra early.
- There are records of 5 legions of Roman soldiers dying from consuming honey made from Azalea nectar.
- Asclepias seeds are so bouyant that WWII troops were documented to have occasionally used them to re-fill PFDs.
- Soybeans contain stable amounts of Estrogen. Really.

And that's all I can think of. Info like this takes alot of digging around to find out. Anyone have anything else to add? Or maybe corrections to any mistakes here?

 

[chris09]

A good amount of foods contain Estrogen.

Alfalfa
Animal flesh
Anise seed
Apples
Baker's yeast
Barley
Beets
Carrots
Cherries
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Clover
Cowpeas (black- eyed peas)
Cucumbers
Dairy Foods
Dates
Eggs
Eggplant
Fennel
Flaxseeds
Garlic
Hops
Licorice
Oats
Olive oil
Olives
Papaya
Parsley
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Pomegranates
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Red beans
Red clover
Rhubarb
Rice (relatively high)
Sage
Sesame seeds
Soybean sprouts
Soybeans
Split peas
Sunflower seeds
Tomatoes
Wheat
Yams

On Tomatoes;
In the US, thanks to a US Supreme Court decision in 1893, tomatoes are vegetables. In the rest of the world they are considered to be fruit (or more accurately, a berry). The reason for this decision was a tax on vegetables but not fruit. You may also be interested to know that technically, a tomato is an ovary. The leaves and stems of the tomato (like the potato) plant contain a chemical called Glycoalkaloid which causes extreme nervousness and stomach upsets.

Chris

 

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[Detlor Poultry]

A good amount of foods contain Estrogen.

Alfalfa
Animal flesh
Anise seed
Apples
Baker's yeast
Barley
Beets
Carrots
Cherries
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Clover
Cowpeas (black- eyed peas)
Cucumbers
Dairy Foods
Dates
Eggs
Eggplant
Fennel
Flaxseeds
Garlic
Hops
Licorice
Oats
Olive oil
Olives
Papaya
Parsley
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Pomegranates
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Red beans
Red clover
Rhubarb
Rice (relatively high)
Sage
Sesame seeds
Soybean sprouts
Soybeans
Split peas
Sunflower seeds
Tomatoes
Wheat
Yams

On Tomatoes;
In the US, thanks to a US Supreme Court decision in 1893, tomatoes are vegetables. In the rest of the world they are considered to be fruit (or more accurately, a berry). The reason for this decision was a tax on vegetables but not fruit. You may also be interested to know that technically, a tomato is an ovary. The leaves and stems of the tomato (like the potato) plant contain a chemical called Glycoalkaloid which causes extreme nervousness and stomach upsets.

Chris

I didn't need to know everything has Estrogen in it! I was fine thinking soybeans were unique with that attribute!

 

[chris09]

I didn't need to know everything has Estrogen in it! I was fine thinking soybeans were unique with that attribute!

Here Ill give you a list of foods that inhibit Estrogen.
Berries
Broccoli
Buckwheat
Cabbage
Citrus Foods
Corn
Figs
Fruits (except apples, cherries, dates, pomegranates)
Grapes
Green beans
Melons
Millet
Onions
Pears
Pineapples
Squashes
Tapioca
White rice


Chris

 

[Detlor Poultry]

Ahhh, that's so much better

Woh, hold on a second, aren't squashes and pumpkins exactly the same thing?