Raw veggies, What's safe?

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  • BubbleGumKisses
    BubbleGumKisses Posts: 156 Member
    http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2009/aug/05/1f5focusm195324-pros-and-cons-munching-raw-potatoe/
    ^ eating raw potatoes IS fine, it's the rest of the potato plant that's toxic...

    http://www.triedtastedserved.com/raw-science/toxic-foods.php
  • TheGreenfaerie
    TheGreenfaerie Posts: 24
    Everything but corn?

    I love raw sweet corn. :)
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    Some vegetables are fine raw, unless you eat way more than a reasonable person would.

    Eggplant? It's a nightshade. It has trace amounts of an alkaloid (iirc) in the fruit itself. So massive amounts might make you sick. But we're talking a ton of it. Same with potato.

    Spinach can cause iron issues and other things like kidney stones...*if* you eat a crapload of it.

    But with anything, just don't eat a heap of it and you're fine. Too much water can even kill you.
  • Just_Dot
    Just_Dot Posts: 2,283 Member
    *coughcorn is a graincough*
  • Heaven71
    Heaven71 Posts: 706 Member
    Everything but corn?

    Ummm, no I like raw corn.
  • monicalord
    monicalord Posts: 26 Member
    I believe potatoes and eggplant :)
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    don't eat broccoli raw... it has a primitive nervous system and can feel pain.

    But ... it's already dead once you pick it!
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    don't eat broccoli raw... it has a primitive nervous system and can feel pain.

    But ... it's already dead once you pick it!

    nope, you've just cut off its legs

    I already don't eat animals. If I have to give up vegetables, too, I will die. And it will be your fault!
  • rgraubner
    rgraubner Posts: 31
    If a tomato is a fruit is it OK to eat raw?


    Tomatoes are like apples to me. I eat them raw all of the time! In fact, just had some cherry tomatoes from my garden by the handful (heavily washed, of course!) All veggies/fruits are things you can eat raw, just some happen to taste better cooked in my opinion :)
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Cauliflower have feelings too....
  • rawfull
    rawfull Posts: 178
    I'm eating a raw vegan diet. I eat everything raw.
    However, I don't eat any vegetable that must be cooked, like potatoes, and eggplant.
    I occasionally have raw corn too, it's delicious. I know other raw foodies that eat potatoes, and eggplant.
    I don't like the way they taste...
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Soybeans are the only vegetable I'm aware that require cooking before eating.

    It really depends on what you choose to classify as a "vegetable" or not. As can be seen in this thread, not everyone agrees. The technical definition is "an edible plant," so potatoes, eggplants, soybeans, corn, all vegetables.
  • hkevans724
    hkevans724 Posts: 241 Member
    I have never heard of any veg being unsafe, unless not handled properly. If you have a concern about something in particular, I would say consult your doctor or a nutritionist. You can't believe everything you read on the internet, most people think they know more than a trained professional.
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  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    don't eat broccoli raw... it has a primitive nervous system and can feel pain.

    But ... it's already dead once you pick it!

    nope, you've just cut off its legs

    I already don't eat animals. If I have to give up vegetables, too, I will die. And it will be your fault!
    REALITY CHECK
    For us to live, something must die.
    Who Cares?
    Eat lean meats, low fat dairy, nuts, whole grains, fruits and veggies, including the screaming in agony broccoli :bigsmile:
    Simple deal.
  • GCAsMom
    GCAsMom Posts: 120 Member
    I'm really amazed there are so many posts about raw potatoes. We eat them raw fairly frequently. Every time I'm cleaning/cutting them to cook, my boys take a whole one and eat it raw. I, myself, used to do the same thing. I still occasionally eat a hunk while prepping. My husband grew up nipping whole raw potatoes while his mom prepped them. We're all still alive and kicking. As far as I know. ;)
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    Everything but corn?

    Corn isn't a vegetable and neither are potatoes.

    Both are starches. Corn is a grain and potatoes are tubers.

    Neither one should be eaten raw

    Any edible part of a plant that is not a fruit (enlarged ovary) is a vegetable.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    Everything but corn?

    Pretty sure you can eat corn raw, as well. Just want to make sure it's ripe - people in the midwest do it all the time when sweet corn is in season.

    From a practical perspective, it wouldn't be easy to eat sweet potato, pumpkin, and turnip raw. Just too hard - you'll lose a tooth.

    For everything, though, be sure you wash it well!
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    In before death by plague.
  • heretocount
    heretocount Posts: 46
    All I will say is be very very careful when eating raw cabbage!!!!
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    Could anyone tell me what veggies are safe to eat raw?
    I've read so many different things now, and it's getting confusing. One minute i'm reading raw spinach is ok to eat...then i'm reading it's full of harmful toxins and shouldn't be eaten raw! And it's like that with every vegetable!
    I'd really appreciate any help/advice.

    Thanks

    If someone told you raw spinach is 'full of toxins', they're nuts (or uninformed). IF they're talking about pesticides and other chemicals that might be sitting on the leaves themselves, that's a different story. You should always wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly before you eat them. A 'top 10' list just came out of vegetables that are more likely to have toxic chemicals on them:

    http://www.healthytheory.com/top-10-fruits-and-vegetables-most-contaminated-by-pesticides

    http://gourmetfood.about.com/od/slowfoodorganiclocal/a/organicproduce_2.htm

    (And yes, spinach is on the list in that second link, so that might be what you had heard... but I don't think cooking it will do anything for you. Buy it organic to be sure it's pesticide free)
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    don't eat broccoli raw... it has a primitive nervous system and can feel pain.

    But ... it's already dead once you pick it!

    Well, shortly after you pick it, at any rate...
  • Improvised
    Improvised Posts: 925 Member
    don't eat broccoli raw... it has a primitive nervous system and can feel pain.

    But ... it's already dead once you pick it!

    Well, shortly after you pick it, at any rate...

    By that logic. you shouldn't pick broccoli to begin with.
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    I prefer all of my veggies raw, to me they taste so much better and you don't lose any nutrients from the cooking process. There are many diets and forums out there you can google on raw food diets, veggetables especially, with smoked fish and other foods. It is so much better for you than cooked or processed foods.
    If raw diets are so healthy, why do women who stay on raw food diets invariably stop menstruating? Raw foods are much harder for the human body to digest., meaning that it is harder to get complete nutrition from a raw food diet.

    invariably stop menstruating? please state your source

    also- I agree with the quoted individual above, you get much more out of the veggies if you dont boil them down to mush.

    Also, I believe eggplant is the only one you shouldnt just scarf down. You can eat a little bit of raw potato, but i dont recommend eating more than a large one, total.

    I grew up in an Irish household - there was one recipe for veetables:

    1. Put previously frozen vegetable <X> into a pot of boiling water

    2. Check meticulously once every hour until all color has transferred from the vegetable to the water

    3. Strain and serve

    So, these days, I really can only eat raw vegetables. If you try to even blanch my carrots, you risk me heaving all over the place. (The body remembers...)
  • carolynmittens
    carolynmittens Posts: 344
    depends on what country you live in. in the US, it doesn't matter, you're fine. in some developing countries, you run the risk of parasites or whatever disease-causing bacteria is present in produce grown with raw sewage irrigation (read: human waste used as fertilizer). and apparently you shouldn't eat raw cabbage in high-altitude countries like peru or chile, a friend of mine learned that one the hard way :sick:
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I grew up in an Irish household - there was one recipe for veetables:

    1. Put previously frozen vegetable <X> into a pot of boiling water

    2. Check meticulously once every hour until all color has transferred from the vegetable to the water

    3. Strain and serve

    So, these days, I really can only eat raw vegetables. If you try to even blanch my carrots, you risk me heaving all over the place. (The body remembers...)
    This is how vegetables were cooked at my house growing up, except we added bacon grease.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Everyone keeps saying you can't eat eggplant raw. Why not? I think it's tasty.
  • carolynmittens
    carolynmittens Posts: 344
    Everyone keeps saying you can't eat eggplant raw. Why not? I think it's tasty.
    well it's the solanine found in eggplants and other nightshades that can be poisonous, but you'd have to eat such an impossibly large quantity to be affected. so unless you're eating like 50 eggplants in one sitting you're probably fine ;P

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