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Got a handful of large tomatoes with sign of blight.
Is it safe to eat these?
Is it safe to eat these?
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I would say yes as long as you aren't immunosuppressed. Fungal diseases that are plant specific aren't usually dangerous to humans unless the human has a severely ineffective immune system. I wouldn't eat the brown bits though...
I also wouldn't attempt to preserve them - preserving using heat and sugar and/or vinegar (i.e. making chutney) is good at killing bacteria but fungal spores can survive and although they probably still wouldn't harm you they may affect its storage life.Proud member of the Nutters Club.
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Why would you want to? Are they green or ripe?Comment
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Almost ripe. At that stage where they are about to turn (if you know what I mean, when they are a pale orangeOriginally posted by rustylady View Post
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Is there blight on the actual fruit, or on the plant? If just on the plant you could pick the fruit and finish ripening them indoors.Comment
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I've used tomatoes from blighted plants loads of times but don't use the fruits if they're affected themselves. When I used to grow toms outside most of my green tomato chutney was from such rescued fruits.
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If the fruit is blighted its got yucky patches on it so you wouldn't want to use it anyway ........well I wouldn't.S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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I've got loads of green ones from blighted outdoor plants ripening nicely in the greenhouse and have been eating them as they ripen. As Binley says, blighted fruit looks rotten so not very appetising unless you are a carrion crow or slug.Comment
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Well... If I see signs of blight on an actual tomato I chop off the bad bit and use the rest for chutney. I rather thought that that was purpose of chutney?Garden Grower
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Think of all those blight spores running through the juices of that blight spotted tomato...I wouldn't eat those. I feel the same about eating tomatoes with BER.The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
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