Are there other commonly found food items with similar unsafe quality as kidney beans?

Star fruit can kill a child. Blowfish is has poison in all, but the small tastey part. I hate red kidney beans.

@RedDeerGuy1 I notice you answered while I was editing. I just added “commonly found”.
But isn’t it stunning that if cooked halfway or something, it can even be more dangerous?

Any meat product can have listeria. Even salad can have e-coili . Excessive pop drinking can cause diabetes.

My OP is still not quite complete. I mean something that’s not as commonly known as the
e-coli (on so many things) or listeria, or salmonella. I mean the kidney thing: “Cooking red kidney beans in crock pots or slow cookers may not heat them enough to destroy the toxin and may actually potentiate it.” Is it common knowledge?

Glad I don’t have a crock pot. That’s pretty scary.

Boiling kidney beans easily kills the poison. According to the FDA a 5 hour soak and 10 minute boil does the job.

And beans aren’t really edible after ten minutes you have to cook them much longer.

I can’t think of anything else. Kidney beans might be the only common food that is dangerous. Maybe you can choke on a jumbo shrimp. I did and no one decided to give me the Heimlich maneuver. Edit ooh ohh I have one. Peanuts to someone with an allergy. Ohh and Un-pasteurized raw milk.

Ignoring entirely the fact that Livestrong.org is a fearmongering woo site,

This is talking about raw beans. That is, beans that are taken off the vine, into the house, and cooked from there.

If you’re buying beans at the store in bags, dried, these have already been heat-dried, stored dry, and then boiled at home (by you) to reconstitute them before going into the crockpot.

Listeriosis – from all sources, not just home grown beans – leads to 260 deaths in the US each year, according to the CDC

In comparison, 332 people die by accidentally drowning each year.

Mountain, meet mole hill.

@RedDeerGuy1 Did they know how to do the Heimlich manuver? Could it be because they just didn’t know how? Or maybe they feared they might make it worse? I hope so.

@RedDeerGuy1 I wouldn’t have imagined peanuts could kill some people (no matter how small the number)

Anaphylaxis is weird like that…

Eating raw potatoes especially ones with a green under the skin. Solanine is in the green and raw potatoes.

@RedDeerGuy1 and @Tropical_Willie
Good points re. unpasturized milk and raw potatoes with green under the skin.
I would like to see if this is comnfirmed by FDA as well (I don’t know the following site)
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2009/aug/05/1f5focusm195324-pros-and-cons-munching-raw-potatoe/

potatoe…... yep.