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The delicious flavour with a toxic secret (2017)(bbc.com)
3 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 2 comments
sigwinch 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Good article. The toxic secret is that a class of these exist, like myristicin in nutmeg. And that nature can alter coumarin into dicoumarol, yet has no obligation to announce it.

DemocracyFTW2 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> They smell faintly like furniture polish.

This is why a friend of mine refuses to eat nutmeg, and since he remarked on it, I've used it much less frequently because he was right.