Delicious Poison
Across
- 1. The compounds licorice mimics in large quantities
- 4. Better check that your tupperware is ___ free
- 7. Type of food that red tide can contaminate
- 8. Only fruit containing bromelain, which digests protein
- 9. Maybe it's fish allergy, maybe it's ___
- 11. Smells like almonds
- 12. The start of ricin
- 14. Precursor to cyanide found in unprocessed almonds and many fruit seeds
- 16. Toxin if you include rhubarb leaves in your pie
- 18. What raw cashews and poison ivy have in common
- 20. Antidote for eating thousands of apple seeds
- 24. What you might need after cooking with imported spices
- 25. What home canning, honey, and smooth skin have in common
- 27. Too much of a good thing in polar bear livers
- 29. Grains with this fortification prevent beriberi
- 31. Fruit that was temporarily banned by the FDA due to hypoglycin A levels
Down
- 2. May be used to manage early ingestions of toxins
- 3. Fictional lethal berries featured in The Hunger Games
- 5. Genus of many toxic mushrooms
- 6. Leave your rice out long enough and you'll make this toxin
- 10. Fugu liver contents
- 13. Why you shouldn't eat the green potatoes
- 15. Starchy crop containing cyanogenic glycosides if not soaked and dried correctly
- 17. Compound in special mushrooms that makes you hear colors
- 19. Sugar substitute/laxative made famous by Haribo's gummy bears
- 21. Too much eggnog and this toxin will kill your cells
- 22. Why you need to cook your red kidney beans
- 23. Popular nonstick coating that when overheated could make you feel flu like symptoms
- 26. The toxic part of elderberries
- 28. The bigger the fish, the more ___ you ingest
- 30. Nutmeg metabolite