• puchaczyk
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    22 days ago

    You joke, but there are influencers tryling to convince people that vegetables are bad because they contain harmful chemicals.

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      22 days ago

      Well they are known to contain dihydrogen monoxide, which is lethal to inhale in relatively small quantities.

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      21 days ago

      There are harmful chemicals in some vegetables. Solanine in potatoes, for example. Not enough to be dangerous though unless you ingest a truly remarkable volume of potato skin. The dose makes the poison, as they say.