List of non-toxic plants with toxic potential
This list guides us to choose with certainty healthy plants for our health. It is certain that those classified as « toxic potential » are not necessarily excluded from our diet but it is better to be well informed before consuming them. Very often, products bear a label of their origin and it is easier to trace the producers and their origin.
| NON-TOXIC | TOXIC POTENTIAL |
| Apricot Agrimony Pineapple Dill Angelic Arroche Artichoke (pieces of leaves) Alder (leaves & branches) Banana Basil Hogweed (leaves and young plants) Wheat Birch (leaves & branches) Broccoli Carrot Celery (in branch & tuber) Chervil Cherry Thistle Charm Chenopod Chives Chicory Endive (sugar loaf) Spinach Fenouille (leaves & tubers) Strawberry Raspberry Fromental Grass Beech Young nettles Kiwi Lavender Lovage Alfalfa Corn salad Maize Mango Marjoram Melon Mint Cherry (leaves & branches) Mulberry Turnip (leaves) Nectarine Hazel (leaves & branches) Oregano Elm (leaves & branches) Parsnip Watermelon Fishing Parsley Dandelion (leaves) Lanceolate plantain Major Plantain Weight (stems & leaves) Pear Apple White radish (leaves) Black radish (leaves) Fresh grapes Rosemary Sage Willow (leaves & branches) Soybean (green part) Mountain ash (leaves & branches) Thyme Linden (leaves & branches) Jerusalem artichoke Coltsfoot Fart Vine (leaves) |
Yarrow Aconite Anagallis Anemone Wild arum Eggplant Lawyer Belladonna Mistletoe berries (white and red) Beetroot Buttercup Bryone Camomile Rubber Tender carob tree Celandine Holm oak Oak reopens All types of cabbage (causes bloation) Hemlock Wild clematis Autumn crocus Cucumber Poppy Courgette Autumn Crocus Datura Diffenbachia Foxglove Fireweed Spurge Fern Acorn Raw beans Yew Wood hyacinth Daffodil Henbane Lettuce Laurier rose White laurel Flax Bindweed Fresh corn Mercuriole Horse chestnut St. John’s wort Nightshade Mourron red or blue Mustard Muget Turnip Olive tree Nettles (young) Poppy Poplar Philodendron Pine Potato (germ) Raw potato Horsetail Primrose Pseudo-parsley Radish Buttercup Rhubarb Fir Scrofulular White sedum Burning sedum Jimsonweed Virginia Sumac Elder Tomato Clover Aspen Privet 3/4 of green plants All treated aromatic plants (e.g. nitrate spraying) All processed fruits. |
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