Eating honey that's been contaminated with natural plant toxins can make people really sick — with vomiting, nausea, and dizziness — and in some cases, it can even be deadly.

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Natural plant toxins in honey: An ignored threat to human health.

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2022 Feb 15

The study looks at honey that has natural poisons from certain plants, and it shows that eating this honey can make people sick with nausea, vomiting, and dizziness—and sometimes even cause death. This supports the idea that contaminated honey can be dangerous.

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Natural plant toxins in honey: An ignored threat to human health.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127682

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Even though some bad stuff in honey can make people feel similarly sick—like having nausea or dizziness—they might actually harm the body in different ways behind the scenes.

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Even though honey is natural, it can sometimes contain toxins from poisonous flowers that bees visited, and eating that honey might be harmful to people.

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