Rhubarb leaves are extremely high in oxalates and can be fatal if ingested. — Whalespan
Rhubarb leaves are extremely high in oxalates and can be fatal if ingested.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“rhubarb is like people say oh rhubarb pie regard this but i find people have brought me rhubarb pies when they've been invited to my house so rhubarb is still around and that's sort of the textbook one where there's been a long history of children accidentally ingesting too much rhubarb and dying from from rhubarb from oxalate poisoning or after world war one people in europe especially in england were so desperate for fresh food that the government said go ahead and eat your rhubarb leaves for greens and several people died from that and got desperately ill on oxalate poisoning and then they realized the amount of oxalate in a rhubarb leaf is so high that it absolutely should never ever eat a rhubarb leaf”