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RE: Urban Foraging in Gävle
I think it has to do with mulberries producing a toxic substance that is also halucingenic. It is mainly a problem with the stems and unripe fruit from my understanding.
I think it has to do with mulberries producing a toxic substance that is also halucingenic. It is mainly a problem with the stems and unripe fruit from my understanding.
It's funny how people get scared of a fruit that isn't good to eat if it's not ripe. Just wait until it's ripe, lol. I've eaten a lot of stems in mulberry pie, but I've never had any issues. And I eat the young leaves, raw, in salads, in addition to cooking them as greens. There's plenty of cultural tradition for both. But I could see the older leaves being a problem and unripe fruit. But that shouldn't make people avoid mulberries. Oh well, more for us - and the birds and other wildlife.
From my understanding our culture pushes the idea of avoiding anything halucingenic so I would assume it has to do with that rather than the posinous nature of it. Cooking breaks the compound down from my understanding becuase you use unripe berries and stems to add more pectin when making jam.
We've got a crazy culture in some ways, don't we? Watch out for that mulberry! :O lol
lol yeah I have had people come up to me while picking them( eating some as I pick) and say" you can't eat those they are posinous". When I said no I have eaten them many times, they just shook there head and went on their way believing the same they always had and thinking of me as crazy or stupid.