Either all at once, or over a lifetime?
Everything is toxic if you eat too much of it
Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by spittingimage@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
… except cannabis, presuming you don’t have a genetic disposition to schizophrenia. Nearly no one has ever died of a marijuana overdose. Compare that to alcohol (or, indeed, water). In fact, the only reason I say “nearly” is just in case; its safety has been known for a long time.
This is in fact one of the core reasons why I finally stopped being a straightedge and accepted taking it. (Though smoking is still a no-no and the worst way to experience anything, basically.)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Nearly no one has ever died of a marijuana overdose.
That’s just because the amount needed to OD is extremely large. You’re more likely to die from other reasons consuming enough marijuana to OD from it.
Dumbitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Toxic =/= deadly. You can absolutely consume enough cannabis to trigger a toxic response. It won’t kill you, but you may wish it did. Just because it’s not “deadly” doesn’t mean it’s good for you in any dose.
memfree@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_herbs_with_known_adver…
The list itself says it is incomplete and I immediately thought of a couple items not listed that have known toxicity issues:
philpo@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
You can easily kill yourself with a water overdose (and it’s actually fairly common),so yes.
Nutmeg was already mentioned - high doses can easily kill someone, sadly even without hallucinations simply by killing off ones liver and dying an agonizing death a few days later. The same goes for cinnamon, but with a much lower dose.
There are a few more, but I don’t want to give people too many ideas.
To make it short: Yes, possible,but it’s mostly a very slow death over multiple days that fucks you up really bad and is a horrible way to go.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“The poison is the dose” is a saying for a reason.
Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Nutmeg can be relatively fast toxic , but it’s soo much that the spice taste of it would be terrible overwhelming any food.
But it can relatively easily kill your kidneys.
So never overdo it.
nyancatec@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Heard it can get you high but line between death and high is so thin it’s not worth it.
soyboy77@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I mean, as humans, toxicity isn’t a deterrent, it’s a selling feature!
SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, the reason we like booze is because it’s toxic and fucks up our brains.
Tux960@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tamil proverb says
அளவுக்கடந்தால் அமிர்தமும் நஞ்சு
It’s emphasizing that even the most potent, life-giving elixir can become poisonous if taken in excess.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Goodness those characters are so pretty!
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Licorice is not that common a spice any more, partially because it’s toxic at pretty obtainable levels, though people who like the flavor still typically won’t accidentally consume a dangerous amount.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All at once, absolutely, but it’s going to take a LOT of most things. Theoretically, anything is poisonous if you have too much of it - we even get oxygen poisoning by breathing air that is too rich in oxygen for too long.
dumples@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
It really depends on the herb but as a general rule you likely cannot. If you are cooking and decide to add double or triple or even 10x the herbs / spices then the recipe suggests you will be fine. The worse case scenario is that you make it taste bad. That being said everything is poison at high enough doses but for culinary herbs that is a huge dose. You will really have to force yourself to eat large enough quantities since it will taste very unpleasant.
There are plenty of other plants that are more dangerous.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Cinnamon can cause permanent damage in high doses.
Other than that and the others mentioned here, probably just old, rotting ones would be bad.
madsjchic@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
How high?
Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
It appears to be 0.1mg/kg of body weight too avoid coumarin overdose (which is much stronger in Cassia than ceylon cinnamon), which is toxic to the liver: ovidsp.dc2.ovid.com/ovid-new-a/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&P…
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
You can overdose on water, so I’d say “yes.”
godzillabacter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nutmeg is poisonous in high doses and can lead to hallucinations, seizures, and other complications.
Letme@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The “Anarchist’s Cookbook” covered this 😂
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
How much are we talking? Are there any documented suicide by nutmeg?
Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
2 to 3 teaspoons is lethal. 1.5 to 2.5 will get you high though. I don’t recommend it as you can see there is an overlap.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
IIRC when I took it recreationally itwas many many grams to get to the hallucinations part. It was hard to stomach. Unless the safety profile is pretty narrow I’d say it would be difficult to complete suicide with nutmeg.
Ziggurat@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
It’s funny because I am cooking with nutmeg, and was saying that. A quick search tells me that you can have hallucination from 15g of nutmeg.
However, with the strong taste, sounds like a good netty bad poison