ABSTRACT
Plants provide humans with over 70% of the necessary protein and a number of other useful substances. Although over millennia, acutely and severely toxic plants or their toxic parts have been excluded from the human diet, mostly by the method of trial and error; in some cases, we still have to do with plant compounds that have an adverse eect either in case of a long-term consumption, with the so-called antinutritional compounds, or by playing a risky game. A halfripe or a wrongly stored part of an otherwise edible plant might turn out to be poisonous. Toxic components can also reach our table, for example, via the milk or meat of the animals that have fed toxic plants, or honey, contaminated with environmental toxicants. e list of the plant endogenous toxicants involved in our further discussion is not by far exhaustive. Here, one nds only the most important plant-borne toxicants from various parts of the world.
