Hello Friends,
Not for human consumption — a tiny phrase carrying the full weight of chemistry, biology, and consequence. In the lab, it means this substance exists outside the delicate operating parameters of the human body. Maybe the compounds haven’t been tested, maybe the concentration is unstable, or maybe the molecules themselves are built to interact with pests, pathogens, metals, or machinery rather than people.
Humans are, after all, highly sophisticated water-based reactors with surprisingly strict tolerances. A flower treatment, fertiliser, dye, preservative, or botanical extract might look harmless, smell beautiful, even come from nature — but nature also invented nicotine, arsenic, and deadly fungi. “Natural” is not the same as edible.
So when scientists label something not for human consumption, it’s less a warning and more a boundary marker: this material belongs in the greenhouse, the workshop, the petri dish, or the field — not in your bloodstream.
I don’t want to get into a debate, however I do want this to serve as warning to All, not all seeds are OK to eat, that also may include their produce, leaves, flowers etc. To name a few off the top of my head, Foxgloves, Larkspur and Borage. Please do your due diligence.
