From: ir@ene.nu   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:24:21 +0100, "e.hutton"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Irene Andersson wrote on Monday 12 Jun 2006 6:16 am:   
      
   >> About the same as with our false morels (the only morels I find here   
   >> up north). We have to eat them once a year, just for the fun of   
   >> finding and picking them. Then we give away the rest..   
      
   >Do go easy on these. False morels are Gyromitra   
   >esculenta, and though apparently edible when cooked   
   >it is now believed that the poisons are not actually   
   >destroyed but slowly accumulate in the body over time,   
   >with eventually disastrous consequences.   
      
   Thanks for the warning.. If you refer to the hydrazine compounds, I'm   
   aware of the encreased risk of developing cancer if you eat them.   
   But added to everything else you are exposed to every day and just by   
   breathing the air - to eat those gyromitras once a year (well boiled   
   of course) will make very little difference in estimated risks.   
   Life is still the same lottery when it comes to illness and disasters.   
      
   Irene Andersson   
      
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