Instagram food accounts as well as clean eating inspiration accounts might be pretty nice
to look at, and hey, they might even inspire you to live a healthier lifestyle.
But the health food trend is coming under fire for unknowingly promoting consumption
of toxic flowers and plants.
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Food and healthy eating bloggers love to decorate their smoothies and chia seed pudding with
flowers and plants.
And hey, I'm not gonna lie, it sure looks pretty.
But apparently, according to a scientist, many of these flowers and plants are actually
d, and you absolutely don't want to be putting them anywhere near something you're going
to eat.
James Wong, a botanist, called out a clean eating instagramer on twitter.
He shared a picture of a smoothie that has a beautiful white flower sitting on top of
it, with the caption.
'another day, another clean eating instagramer posting images of toxic flowers on food.
The flower belongs to a flowering narcissus plant.
It may not contain dairy or gluten but it does contain the toxic plant alkaloid lycorine.
Symptoms of eating this plant include itching, swelling, nausea, vomiting and some severe
effects are liver failure and cardiac arythmia.
According to James Wong, livestock frequently die from eating these plants of acute liver
failure.
The blogger who shared the photo was Marie Reginato.
Marie lives in San fransico and she runs a blog dedicated to healthy, alternative vegan
eating.
Many of her food posts are adorned with plants and flowers.
She does have a disclaimer at the bottom of the posts that say the plants are purely for
decoration.
But there are plenty of bloggers that do this, and people who will probably copy them, put
random flowering plants they find in the backyard, take photos of their pretty smoothie, post
it on Instagram and then unknowingly consume the food or beverage that was just touched
by a toxic plant.
Of course there is such a thing as an edible plant.
They are often used as food garnishes at really nice restaurants and bars.
But you shouldn't put a random plant you find on your food just because it looks nice
and will get you more likes on Instagram.
Wong says that around 1 in 20 of the edible flower posts he comes across contains a dangerous
and potentially deadly plant.
He also said that the irony of this situation is, lots of vegan bloggers like to label common,
safe foods like dairy, gluten and sugar as toxic, but then they post photos and likely
consume toxic plants.
He further said that he lets these bloggers know that they are putting toxic plants on
their posts, but none of them have taken the photos down.
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