Re: HYB: the toothpick thing


> ingestion of minute amounts of oxalic acid in iris pollen!  Oxalic acid is
> a very common phytochemical, and you would get thousands of times larger a
> dose from eating a green salad than you would from almost any amount of
> iris pollen.

Spinach is also high in oxalic acid.  Eating too much oxalic acid can
predispose you to a particular type of kidney stone, as well.

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
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