Posted by Conundrum on August 27, 2010, at 11:55:27
In reply to Lou's reply-holddapheppr? » chujoe, posted by Lou Pilder on August 27, 2010, at 11:28:33
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA400102
"Maybe, but you would have to use an awful lot of pepper for a long time to run into trouble. The concern about pepper arises from one of its components, safrole, also found in small amounts in star anise, nutmeg, witch hazel, and basil. In the 1960s, the FDA banned the use of safrole in food in the United States after it was found that injecting large amounts caused liver cancer in lab rats. Perhaps the biggest effect of this ban has been to eliminate the use of sassafras root in the making of root beer. Volatile oils found in the bark of the root of the sassafras plant are 80 percent safrole. Nowadays, sassafras can be used as an ingredient in root beer only if the safrole is removed through a laboratory extraction process."
Time to through out your spice rack, because something in there could be poisonous if you eat too much of it.
Plain Oatmeal and Rice won't kill me right?
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