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AmityvilleHams · 08-21-2022, 03:41 PM

Food safety is a tricky one because of just how much varies within even a group of type of foods like legumes for example.

Beans in general do need cooking but there are specific legumes safe to consume raw, but that's generally not too hard to find information for with a quick search even if you have to rely on sources for parrots for example. That doesn't mean they can never be given of course, they just have to be properly prepared. Some foods are only safe cooked and never should be given raw like potato!

I think the apple skin being unsafe thing could've came from pesticide usage and other contamination concerns. As long as you rinse your produce it's not typically a problem, but you should be doing that for all produce even for yourself including organic due to food borne illness etc.

As good as it would be to have a convenient & official pinned safe and unsafe food list, I think it would realisitically take too much work plus there's always room for things to change so then it would be more work for mods in terms of upkeep.

08-21-2022, 03:41 PM
AmityvilleHams PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 4,545	Re: Suggestions for website Food safety is a tricky one because of just how much varies within even a group of type of foods like legumes for example. Beans in general do need cooking but there are specific legumes safe to consume raw, but that's generally not too hard to find information for with a quick search even if you have to rely on sources for parrots for example. That doesn't mean they can never be given of course, they just have to be properly prepared. Some foods are only safe cooked and never should be given raw like potato! I think the apple skin being unsafe thing could've came from pesticide usage and other contamination concerns. As long as you rinse your produce it's not typically a problem, but you should be doing that for all produce even for yourself including organic due to food borne illness etc. As good as it would be to have a convenient & official pinned safe and unsafe food list, I think it would realisitically take too much work plus there's always room for things to change so then it would be more work for mods in terms of upkeep.