This mistake sends people to the hospital every year

Except onions like Vidalia that are raised to lack the sulfuric compounds that cause onion smell and taste

from the Philippines here, My mother and Grandmother loved planting flowers in their mini garden. Due to reasons, we had to remove most of the flowers and relocate them in pots... We saw a Bulb-ish plant and thought it was a different type of Onion because its leaves were flat, wide and long. Cutting it, it didn't hurt the eyes and there was also this sticky, gooey substance and yes... We Ate those. Lo and behold we were nauseous and vomiting a few hours later. It was quite a bad case of food poisoning but thankfully it subsided the next day.

is there a place I can post a pic to ID a plant growing in my back yard? I thought it was corn (which I was excited about because I didn't plant it) but now I think its something else Maybe Sorghum

if it doesn't smell like an onion - it's not an onion... lol then he sys it lol. Yeah, that's the first thing I learned when I was first taught foraging (back when rocks were soft) from my Nanna.

Thanks bro, for the info!

No sound on this video🤔

Allah forbade onions from people who didn't know what they were doing lol

Whoever cooked that meal shouldn't cook. Wow 😢😢😮😅

You gotta be pretty dumb to mistake a daffodil bulb for an obion. Lol. I can see how the greenery resembles an onion bit nothing else does.

💚Your content is absolutely fantastic and such a breath of fresh air! As someone who shares a passion for foraging and has a small channel in this niche, I find your work super inspiring. Keep up the incredible job and continue making a massive impact! 🌿

I found some patches of grass that had very small shallot like bulbs in my woods. They did not smell like onions, but I left them out to dry and they now smell like onions. I have not eaten any of them. What would these be?

I just saw this as a short on my feed and came here right away and subscribed. Thank you for putting your link in the comments.

I always smell my produce when picking it out at the store - the stronger an aroma, the more flavor (especially true of citrus fruits - seriously next time you pick up a lemon or an orange, compare the taste of one that has hardly any scent with one that's got a lot of citrus smell to it, the difference is massive).

I thought Daffodils were edible. Flower bulbs have been commonly eaten during food scarcity. I always thought this included daffodil bulbs.

Oh shit, I think I ate some of these when I was little but surprisingly I turned out fine. Of course it could be a different plant as from what I remember, it didn't have a bulb at the ends of it.

The nose trick wouldn't work with folks with no sense of smell, though.

I knew it was daffodil right at the start of your video. Thanks for pointing out poisonous look alikes. Very important. I know where there is a field of Ramps, but it's my secret! 😊

I can't stand onions so I think I'll be fine.

They are indeed toxic. Even farmers with livestock have to be careful not to allow the animals to eat these plants

they might seem a like but i was sure no one would ever eat those. would be enough to just see the leaves at ANY stage but great that we have natural selection and stuff

onyon

God saved me from illness by sending your video to me

so timely!!!!

Any type of onion or garlic will actually smell like onion or garlic!! You would not believe how many people end up in the ER after eating wild allium they forage…. You ask them, did it smell or taste like onion or garlic and they say …. No!😮🙄😵‍💫UFB

In Italy it is not poisonous and is 5 times stronger for fighting colds and bacteria than wild garlic

If my onions didn't smell like onions, I wouldn't add them to food even if I were sure they were the right species. Onions are added to food for flavor, not for bulk.

What is with the name of the time stamp 😭😭😭😭

This guy should be hired by the health service for advice.

He’s my favorite twink forager, so hot

Just knowing this similarity exists should help people distinguish.
Everything about daffodil screams "I'm not actually an onion" so I assume the majority of unintentional ingestions were by people not paying attention due to ignorance of such a similarity.

when i got to my new house, i had a bunch of chive onion growing in the garden in the backyard, and luckily, i knew it was chive because of its distinct purple flowers and delicious onion aroma. i harvest it every spring and summer as it just grows like hair and add it to my ramen instead of buying onion from the store. I find chives to be delicious, but i also used to use chives to keep my foster parents from knowing i was smoking as it has a heavy aroma and can mask smoke on your breath, i think the positive connotation from the taste makes me like them more than i like spring onion

They're already coming up now in GA

Can daffodils be used to induce vomiting in order to purge a poison?

We still do this in the UK, it's only the foreigners that make that mistake 😂

If deer won't eat daffodils then you know you shouldn't either. However, hostas are deer candy. So they are edible.

I forgot all about this by tomorrow and probably end up in the hospital.

Looks like a shallot which is part of the garlic family.

When I was young and new to the area, someone told me how wild onions grew everywhere, I remember grabbing one with a big bulb and chewing it for about 2 seconds before spitting it out. It clearly tasted like something you shouldn't eat. I don't remember getting sick, but yeah, you can definitely tell by taste.

Daffodils will kill other flowers in a vase quickly with their muscilage. To correct this you should let them soak alone for a day in a vase and replace the water with fresh water before introducing other flowers.

It's ironic that the safe plant makes your eyes water, and the toxic one doesn't.

Evwn more dangerous that looks very similar looking when green. It's snowdrop. Both daffodils and snowdrops contain galantamine. It was used as antifreeze in Bulgaria during WW2 but now that chemical is used to treat parkinsons and traumatic brain injuries. Both are also veey toxic to dogs and cats.

I love the Chubby Emu vibes of the intro

Funny i find this video after mowing down a very prominent patch of what appears to be wild onion, with flowers similar to Star of Bethlehem. I'll need to check into it a bit further.

Quite interesting. I used to work as a florist at a garden center and always thought how similar those flower bulbs of looked to onions or garlic at a first glance. I can definitely see how people could easily make this mistake.

If I thought a plant was onion but it failed to smell like onion I'd figure at the least that there was something wrong with it.
Why is there so much trouble in Japan about this? No public warnings about making sure that what you think is foraged onion actually smells like onion before using it? That ought to be easy.

Ty!

I legit cannot understand how people could make this mistake. Edible things have a very distinct smell, and so do non-edible things. How do you chop up those bulbs to mix into curry and not notice the smell? How do you cook the minced bulb and not notice the smell?

Here in Pa, we also have wild leeks (ramps)

This is so good to know. Our new homestead came with well established daffodils, so I need to keep any onions we plant away from that area. We also harvested wild prairie onions today and will be having them at supper.

What is this most important video that you reference as it's not showing on my screen- can you put it in the description or somewhere else or at least mention the title next time so one can Google it

I've also personally seen ragweed mixed in with cilantro at my local grocery store! Have you ever seen a grocery store mislabeling like this? Be safe out there!