Can you eat raw broccoli and zucchini?

Vegetables are healthy. But can you eat broccoli (also spelled broccoli) or zucchini raw? Straight zucchini spaghetti are now on everyone's lips. Is the consumption of raw food toxic? Whether the danger of poisoning of broccoli and zucchini emanates.

Do you need to cook broccoli so it is not poisonous? And what about grated, thin slices or chopsticks in zucchini salad? The green vegetables unsettle some hobby cooks who, for safety's sake, fry everything and cook until soft. Whether raw zucchini food is harmless and whether you can also eat broccoli florets raw, you will learn below.

To eat zucchini raw: Is that allowed or are zucchini poisonous?

Cooking zucchini, frying and freezing - that causes the fewest problems. But why are there so many recipes for zucchini salad or zucchini spaghetti on the internet?

• Normally, zucchini are not poisonous and also the flowers are edible . But to make sure you enjoy crispy zucchini salads, you should make sure that the vegetables do not taste bitter and harvest the zucchini before they get too big. Tall zucchini can cause raw stomach and intestinal problems.
• If your zucchini has a smooth, undamaged skin without dents and tastes neutral to sweet, nothing stands in the way of raw consumption.
• Zucchini can be poisonous : The poison cucurbitacin was actually bred out of the cucurbitaceae. But especially with private cultivation in local gardens you should be careful. If, for example, zucchini are grown next to ornamental gourds, backcrossing can occur. The same applies if courgettes are exposed to special weather conditions or stored incorrectly on their way to the consumer.

If the zucchini contains the bitter substance, it can have (very) unpleasant consequences. cucurbitacin

• irritates the gastric mucous membranes
• can cause nausea
• causes diarrhea
• Depending on concentration and amount, the zucchini can cause food poisoning.