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Default Cooking with Bayleaves - Is it dangerous?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
> wrote:

>Omelet wrote:
>>
>> I have to wonder... The scent of the leaves is similar to eucalyptus so
>> would small amounts of that work?

>
>I'm pretty amazed at the strength of the answers. There are eucalyptus
>candies so clearly the stuff isn't dangerous.


It most certainly is toxic - toxic enough to be life threatening - but
safe enough in very small doses.
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