Plants make natural poisons to protect themselves, and if we eat them, these can sometimes harm our bodies.

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Natural Food Toxins and its Ayurvedic Purview

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Plants make natural toxins to protect themselves, and this study shows those toxins can be harmful to people if we eat too much of them.

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

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2022 Feb 15

Bees can make honey from flowers that contain natural poisons made by plants. When people eat that honey, they can get sick, which shows that some natural plant chemicals can be harmful to humans.

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Some natural toxins in foods—like in certain plants—help protect the plant from bugs or stress, but eating too much of them might be harmful to people and animals.

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Plants produce a variety of natural chemical compounds as defensive mechanisms against herbivores and pathogens.

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Animals do not produce phytochemical-like defensive toxins because their primary defense mechanisms are physical (e.g., speed, strength, biting), not chemical.

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