spittingimage@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 hours agoIs it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?message-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?spittingimage@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 hours agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFlagstaff@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoCinnamon can cause permanent damage in high doses. Other than that and the others mentioned here, probably just old, rotting ones would be bad.
minus-squareFlagstaff@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoIt appears to be 0.1mg/kg of body weight too avoid coumarin overdose (which is much stronger in Cassia than ceylon cinnamon), which is toxic to the liver: https://ovidsp.dc2.ovid.com/ovid-new-a/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&AN=01445481-201002000-00007&NEWS=N&CSC=Y&CHANNEL=PubMed
Cinnamon can cause permanent damage in high doses.
Other than that and the others mentioned here, probably just old, rotting ones would be bad.
How high?
It appears to be 0.1mg/kg of body weight too avoid coumarin overdose (which is much stronger in Cassia than ceylon cinnamon), which is toxic to the liver: https://ovidsp.dc2.ovid.com/ovid-new-a/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&AN=01445481-201002000-00007&NEWS=N&CSC=Y&CHANNEL=PubMed