# Can eating raw vegetables harm you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 8, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160 "2014-03-08T00:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160/21 "2014-03-09T19:40:30Z")
[QUOTE=nearwildheaven] … The next morning, she woke up and was bright orange from head to toe, including her sclera, palms, and soles of her feet. … [/QUOTE] Again, [not the sclera](http://http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7449242). This is GQ. Boiling does a good job of reducing oxalate content [in taro](http://http://taro.wikispaces.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160/22 "2014-03-09T19:56:17Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Boiling does a good job of reducing oxalate content [in taro](http://http://taro.wikispaces.com/). The above URL is broken - [here is what it should be](http://taro.wikispaces.com/). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160/23 "2014-03-10T06:19:12Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Raw taro root is inedible because it contains calcium oxalate crystals. I’ve never experienced it myself, but I understand that these crystals make the consumption of raw taro quite painful. I don’t know whether they’d actually do any harm apart from the pain. Oxalates can contribute to kidney stones, but I don’t think that cooking taro eliminates oxalates - it just gets rid of the sharp crystals. Taro. The Cap’n Crunch of the vegetable world. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160/24 "2014-03-10T06:28:13Z")
Depending on your system, raw fruits and vegetables can be hell. My doctor told me to eat very little in the way of raw veggies because of my IBS and how hard they are to digest. I’m one of the few people I know that are under doctors orders to NOT eat salad. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160/25 "2014-03-11T10:26:22Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Depending on your system, raw fruits and vegetables can be hell. My doctor told me to eat very little in the way of raw veggies because of my IBS and how hard they are to digest. I’m one of the few people I know that are under doctors orders to NOT eat salad. Man, that would just kill me [subjectively speaking that is] I absolutely adore salads and raw veggies. One of my most common lunches is to make a chopped salad of raw cabbage, carrot, onion, celery, jicama, tomato with chick peas and homemade balsamic dressing. My favorite snacks are celery and carrot dipped in hummus, plain cuke and jicama spears or kalamata olives … _sob_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-eating-raw-vegetables-harm-you/683160.md?page=1)