Eating Deadly Yew Berries!
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The bright red berries of the Yew tree are widely considered to be lethally toxic and to be avoided at all costs. This isn't strictly true as the "flesh" of the berries is actually the only non-poisonous part of the entire tree! The seed inside the fruit is highly toxic and potentially fatal consequences can result from ingesting it, but as we see in this video, the flesh of the fruit is not only very nutritious and safe to eat, but it tastes damn good too!
That tree provides a very important and useful anticancer medication (Taxol and it's variants). They used to only be able to harvest the drug from the tree itself until chemist developed a total synthesis for it. Now you can just make the stuff in bulk in some industrial type lab.
Have eaten them many times, always spat the seed out, careful not to bite into it. They do taste good.
When I was a kid, we had yews growing on either side of our front porch. I ate probably hundreds of them. I am now 63 years old and I am still here.
Including seeds?
@Random Name apple seeds are the same. Full of cyanide but you need to crush them up
@@memekampf1751 They are not the same. Those are very different toxins and apple seeds are much less lethal.
Бане Д. I meant in the way they need to be broken up before there harmful
The berries are absolute not toxic. It is a MASSIVE different if you just swallowed the seeds or chew them. If you chew them it is toxic, if you just swallowed them, nothing will happen
toxic plants usually are useful as antidotes for some particular diseases when properly prepared. Interesting video. Love them.
The red fruit pulp also contain Taxol but in very small quantities. They are safe to eat but not in excess. Dont eat too many in one day. Remember to spit the seed.
when we were children we eat them , we knew to spit the seed,, they never harm us in any way, we love them
Raffaella Vitiello uhhhh
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Yeah they're delicious Tumi
Same
@@edma06what do you mean
Yes! I've just learned that these berries are currently being heavily researched as a powerful cancer medication!
I’m researching too and have noticed that too!
It doesn't surprise me at all that we have been lied to and scared away if thats the case.
@@seanp8220 Correct!...Have been eating them for many years and planted my own crops.
@@seanp8220 no you can eat the berries just take out the seeds or spit them out because if you don't it can cause heart failure convulsions and death same for the leafs you can touch them for too long the poison will go through your skin causing you to throw up it will also make you dizzy and in some cases confusion then death if not treated FACTS
@@dobindobs7977 They did the same trick with dandelion and it turned out to be the best heart medication on the planet ... call it a weed. ...
The elementary school I went to had nice little pruned yew bushes all over the place. I remember kids playing with the berries and even jumping into the bushes. I'm actually very surprised I don't remember a single poisoning, especially since we're talking a bunch of dumb kids ranging from 6 to 11 wreaking havoc with little to no supervision.
Lol... same exact comment I was gonna put XD
actually, the berries are the only part of the yew which is not poisonous. But I remember daring each other as children to eat them - "they're poisonous." From Wikipedia: "All parts of a yew plant are toxic to humans, due to taxine alkaloids, with the exception of the yew berries (however, their seeds are toxic)"
The berries are NOT toxic, but the seeds. When you just swallowed the seeds nothing will happen, but when you chew them it will be dangerous
so it seems to be purposeful disinformation to say the berries are deadly.
@@lisa4471 Yep they should pass straight through if uncrushed.
I've had yew tree poisoning many times it's a good feeling and slightly manic makes you full of energy,I've made many yew longbows without a dust mask and I know the buzz.
awesome, great info.
@@jeffel80 alcohol is deadly poisonous if you consume a high enough dose, doesn't mean anyone who drinks enough alcohol to feel its effects is now going to die of alcohol poisoning.
It's all in the dose.
Not that I'd recommend trying small doses of yew as a recreational drug, very much the opposite in fact.
These are TASTY!!! The seeds are only poisonous if crunched up: if you swallow them or spit them out, no problemo. Best to avoid berries on trees right next to well-used roads or that might have been sprayed with pesticide. Other than that, just don't crunch the seeds!
Don't swallow them O_O The body breaks it down.
Somehow Apple seeds can do just fine if not chewed up. They're poison.
The yew berries are just so darn tiny it's not worth the effort for sustenance.
@@aleksandramakari blueberries are smaller and millions eat it every week
I eat them every time I found them in any London park, I love to see peoples faces around me w:P
***** You are of course right - since making this video I died a terrible & excruciating death. I am replying now from the intermediate bardo state where I am waiting to reincarnate, where there is a pretty good wifi signal actually.
Nyishar sorry to hear that Nyishar, I will join you next autumn, very difficult to get a lethal dose now in November
tnx tapired i will research it
***** No sarcasm here - I am 'deadly' serious. Looks like my karma has come home to roost as I am now about to reincarnate into a yew tree of all things. I revoke everything I said about yew berries - please don't eat me!!!
That is EXTREMELY irresponsible. I've eaten these for over ten years, since I was in my early twenties, but I make a point to never pick them in front of people who might not know the dangers. If people in a park, especially tourists who might not know any different, assume that you are just eating edible fruit... Well, you have essentially caused a death.
"2 seeds can kill a horse" - that's bullshit, it's not that toxic as it's made to be. I know a guy who ingested a few seeds and leaves nad just got very sick to his stomach.
The fruit is delicious though and I enjoy the extremely sweet taste.
+gogo311 as he explained, humans have a far higher tolerance to certain toxins (including taxine) than horses. honestly, horses will die from practically anything bad you put in them.
i think in general because herbivores have guts that more thoroughly break down plant matter, a lot more of the toxins are released in their gut than in ours.
Yes, usually horses die from the leaves, particularly if somebody lops a branch off and leaves it lying to waste, and a horse eats the dried out leaves. It happens a lot.
2 seeds would not kill a horse.The horse would never notice.
Maybe 25 to 50 grams of seeds could start to be dangerous. And some horses can and have adapted to eating yew, just never huge amounts.
500 grams of leaves kills a cow, deer and rabbits seem immune, small handful of leaves kills human, seeds kill humans when they chew the seeds and just swallowing seeds seems to be ok but just spit em out.
The digestive track of horses and cows is very different. But cows and deer have very similar digestion yet cows die from it and deer dont. The reality is that the animals can become immune by browsing little bits of it regularly. (as they would in the wild always moving on and never eating whole trees just bits here and there)
Problem with modern farming methods is that they never see a yew tree, except for the last tree they see upon death, if u know what I mean.
Ingested? Well....swallowing whole and actually chewing is very different. Apples aren't poison, but the seeds are. Only if broken though.Other than that, they can pass safely through the body.
@@aleksandramakari exactly
Correct, I eat the berries all the time and just spit out the seeds. No big feat. And should you swallow a seed, well, I just don't worry, it just comes out whole again. Seeds have to be chewed open to release the toxins. The purpose of the seed is to be eaten by birds and go through their system and come out whole again. Seeds are very hard to be absorbed by the gastric juices. Virtually impossible. They just don't break open in the stomach or gut.
lol ive eaten hundreds of these berries without even knowing the seeds are poisonous
Do you spit or swallow, if that's not too personal a question? :)
I’ve come to this place because I heard that the “deathberries” in the warriors book series were actually yew berries. Cool!
I watch warriors too!
The danger of it feeds my fascination.
I wonder if they grow here in NY state
They are a European tree. Hugely popular in England due to the bow-making wood of choice, every churchyard in England has them, and it was illegal to import ANYthing into England from Europe without also bringing Yew wood staves in a specified quantity. Hence, there are hardly any stocks left in Europe anywhere. Best come to England and try them. Seriously, any church yard.
If you know what you're looking for they should be everywhere in NY State. Get some good pics of what Yew looks like and start looking at hedges.....
Yes they do.
of course they do....i have one in Buskirk and also in Cohoes......they are brought as ornamental shrubs the one we have in Cohoes is over 75 years old
Ikr, I found a hedge near a DD, and ate it. I knew the seed was poison beforehand though. But it just tastes too slimy and too much like piney and stuff.
But I do know there's a hedge near a supermarket..
First though: DEATHBERRYS!! 😱
Then I realized I'm not in the warrior cat universe. 😔
Jinx_The_Wolf_ same.
Cinderpaw was overprotective to CloudKit.
Lol same I thought of deathberries then searched up yew berries
Same
Lmao same thing I was thinking
Those are some of the most delicious berries I've ever tasted.
Those are known as Deathberry in warriors
Yep that's how brokenstar died
pink bubbletae qwq Thanks for the spoiler man, only on book 3
Yep and I thought I was the only one here from warriors lol
@@lixxie144 your lucky it's not the last last book rip
@@puppyest yepp
I have been eating yew berries for years and years. There's not too much to them really, as they are very small. I've often wondered if you gathered a lot of them, if you could make a jam or jelly from them. Of course, I always spit the seed out!
you should remove the seed and then eat the ariel dont even put the seed in your mouth, hearing that makes me nervous!
Tweezers are handy for taking the seed out.. Just in case any of the taxin gets onto the fingers if you're removing a lot of seeds in one go
Okay so the reds part are safe but the brown seed isn't right? I ate some today with my friend and we spat the seeds out immediately. will I be okay?
Yeah. The red parts are fine.
Well the fruit is edible, it’s just the seed that is poisonous
So this shrub has a poisonous seed and leaf right. But the reddish seed cap is safe to eat and It's not poisonous right. I seen these shrubs before.
As a rule of thumb a yew tree grows one foot of girth every 30 years.
For the very old ones - plus or minus 5 feet gives the approximate age range.
Awesome video. Unless there is another berry that looks just like this one, I've encountered that before. But, I don't remember where. If I encounter it again, I will surely have a feast. It would be tight to brew a Beer with YewBerries
I do think these are the yew trees that are used for landscaping. We used to eat the red part of the berries as children growing up.We had them trimmed at our home.
Oml... I was reading a tab in warrior cats and how death berries, (yew berries), can kill any cat in seconds... OMLLL There was a frickin drill because there were new heat and ac installers in my school and the heat wire burnt the ac wire which caused a bit of smoke... when we evacuated, a total of 5 police cars, 5 fire cars, and a fire truck came. There was a fence and some leaves hung over it. There, I peeled open a yew berry. Luckily, my friend thats male named Jamie told me not to eat it and I didn't. Geez.
Edit: Jamie is leaving to Korea in Febuary ono
Edit 2: I squeezed the seed out of the berry too and it splattered all over me and I had to wipe it on my pants XD
This is really late, but I'm curious, do you guys still keep in touch 👀
I'm always surprised how many yew trees survived in britain given that they were plundered on a vast scale for the WMD of the middle ages.
British yew is notoriously poor for making bows, much of the wood used for the English longbow was imported from Spain and Italy.
Evidence that just 'two seeds' can Kill a horse please!....Because that' sounds like nonsense to me.I eat many of these,without the seed for many years now.-Micro nutrient Rich.The tree is sacred and Magical-The results from eating the sweet red flesh are highly positive!...(Speaking from personal experience).
Hello sir, what positive effects are we talking about?
that thing is WELL over 200yrs old in my opinion!
The oldest yew tree is the "Ballyconnell Yew" in Annagh Ireland with a possible age of 5000 years it is possibly the oldest tree in Europe.
there are older olive trees
To make them cost-effective to consume, you should use a bucket full of the fruit and work them gently with your fingers. and use a collander to drain off the juice, maybe using some fruit juice to help to separate the pits out. But, for a survival or trail snack, they`re fine.
I'm still not comfortable with attempting to eat one but it is interesting to know that parts of it are actually edible.
I bought these seeds for different reasons
I saw them growing where me and my uncle going to Walgreens
I eat the berries on dog walks and spit out the seeds, but I'm wondering if they'd pass through the human digestive system without poisoning if not crunched up? So many varying accounts and many seem overcautious if anything.
Hi I really like your channel. I just watched your video clip on deadly yaw tree. I have one very big in front of my garden. I nearly call aped when I listen to you as my children since they where crawling they helped themselves with berries . They are healthy but I will explain to them next autumn to be carefull with seeds. My children are 3 and 5 we live in London but on weekends go to our land (12 acres 0f filds and trees) thay usually eat anything they pick up apart from muschrooms I really like your videos a lot . Thank you
i eat the whole berry then just spit out the seeds
The foliage is more toxic than the berries.
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Yes, you can eat the red berries and spit out the seeds. The berries are somewhat slimy but delicious!
I don't like the flavor much, and slimy...I squeezed one before I taste tested and ew it got sticky on my fingers lol.
how easy/difficult are the seeds to accidentally bite through? is it an apple/orange seed-like consistency, or closer to a peach or plum seed?
Kinda hard, not too soft at all
It's easy to just spit out the seed.
Woah! I use to eat these as a kid and I was wondering what the heck was the name of this berry... so I finally found the name of it and I can't BELIEVE it's poisonous 😳😳😳 ...I literally could of died if I swallowed or chewed that seed. ...No one would of known why, thank you JESUS for keeping me safe and alive as I ate random stuff from bushes as a child 😂😬
We had a shrub in our house that looked like this - mayb it was a yew. My husband kept trimming it short. Birds never did eat it
Maybe there were no suitable birds in your area.
Absolutely - it's totally possible. People have eaten the seeds and lived to tell the tale, but I just wouldn't even go there :)
The Yew Berries Are Called Armor Berries And They're Not Poisonous!
Karina Wroble exactly
The seeds are.
The berries are'nt toxic, the other part of the yew plant are
Very informative. Thanks for the video.
I had one without knowing what it was once. I can now say I have had a near death experience
i did taste this yew berry in life but being an agriculturist i want to grow in my lawn
Lol, you want to grow in your lawn? XD
I ate 150 seeds once am not dead unfortunately highly dissapointed
david mendoza thats impossible
Chewing them into bits will kill, but swallowing won't. Maybe might get little sick, but yeah, same with how Apple seeds are. Mmmmm arsenic...
Do you just swallowed them or chewed them? If you just swallowed them, nothing will happen.
Yup these are da hedges people are thinking of. Pretty strong plant too, last year I gathered a pint that were still just fine even after two weeks of freezing nights and it was twenty out when I was collecting them not froze or going bad yet, but I think just before freeze would be best rather than wate to long and loose them
They're called DEATH BERRIES in warrior cats... I want to try them
Sameeee
Plus I call them death berries instead of yew berries just because of warriors
How long would I last if I ate maybe 20 seeds?
Is this the tree you see trimmed into square or rectangular hedges in front of some people's houses?
ive ate handfuls of these berries and ive also made syurp from the sap and ive been fine...
the sap is bad... you shouldnt do that
We had these basically as bushes in our gardens as a kid. Kept the pests away from our Hostas.
We called those snot berries
If you were to buy the seeds on their own in a packet, would they still be deadly?
Thanks for sharing! I'm still a bit leery about eating yew "berries".
I used to collect a bunch of these berries and smash them up when I was a kid. Haha
I eat the berries for months when they are on the tree and spit out the tiny seed but I assume the seed is designed, like all seeds, to go right through our system. Am I wrong?
Maybe some people can chew on it too hard.
They’ve evolved to be carried by birds, who can’t digest the seeds
If they were kept trimmed then it wouldn't matter. That's pretty much the whole concept of Bonsai. You keep a tree trimmed back and it never grows beyond the size you've kept it trimmed to. I am 98% certain this is used as a hedge in many yards.
It’s warrior cats, it’s deathberries
yo man dope vid. got a big ol yew tree I my front yard gonna have to start eating these bad bois. jw, you still alive?
Is it a painful death ?
Sounds pretty unpleasant. Just a few hours though.
Man, whats your views on green and vegetable juices. I have been reading a lot of new articles on things like celery and parsley having many plant toxins that can be very harmful the human body in excess?
Does yew poisoning have painful symptoms?
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Something very deadly can be the next yummiest meal.....
I have several yew trees growing right next to my house and I never knew the aryll was safe to eat.
is it okay to eat the leaves?
+Moon Child No, I think the leaves may actually be the most toxic part of the tree. I got the impression before looking further that what he says is literally true about nothing other than the berries being edible.
I have even seen new agey posters listing it as a wood for burning, THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!! the wood is poisonous and so therefore is the smoke, and the sawdust which is why any woodturner/carver will tell you to be especially careful with ventilation and not breathing it in (not that any wood dust is healthy to breathe in - they're all carcinogens)
But good to have this confirmed...time to visit some churchyards I guess...
No the leaves are toxic, any part of the yew plant is toxic, only the berries are ateable
You added a 0 to practically every estimate of age. That tree isnt going to be 200 years old, they dont regularly reach 2000 years and never 5000 years.
The oldest tree in the WORLD is just over 5000 years.
A tree of that size looks similar to one where I grew up, it was possibly 40 years but was probably only 30
Know wonder my mom used to eat a lot of these as a kid.
Wow, I guess I wasn't as smart as I thought I was then. ):
Thx though! :)
I think I can imagine eating fugu shaped into berries🤔😂
I've eaten the yew arils and they tasted like sticky haribos.
But I have never ingested the actual seed itself.
Don't eat the seed.
These are very messy to eat so make sure not to scrape any of the seed off when eating , I eat them and love them.
I ate one just to see what it tasted like before i know what it was and i chewed up the seed and spat it all out lol
we have this growing in the yard we have fenced for our dog... he eats everything. im concerned.
opps as a kid i ate 5 of these i ate the seeds too
It is said that if you swallow the seed whole without biting it or damaging it in any way, it passes straight through the gut without any toxin coming out. That's probably what happened in your case but I wouldn't risk it. The slightest damage to the seed could be dangerous.
Jonathan Gomez
Some guy ate 40 of these and didn't die. He was very sick, though.
@@randomuseronthenet it's a different if he just swallowed the seeds or chew them
Yew berries aren't deadly! The seeds are..
I don't think that yew tree is from1813?
If I ate like 100 seeds, how long would I live?
Presumably, it would be the last day of your biological life.
Ella Murph Ive been reading scientific articles about the effects of Taxus Baccata overdose, and apparently it doesn't necessarily lead to sudden death
h1r43th4l1v3 Mine stated otherwise.
Ella Murph "In the case of an overdose with yew plant material, the taxoids taxine A and taxine B block calcium channels in cardiac myocytes (19) causing nausea, vomiting, dizziness, seizures, and abdominal pain. These initial symptoms are followed by cardiovascular effects such as bradycardia and then ventricular tachycardia with severe ventricular arrhythmias and episodes of ventricular fibrillation, severe hypotension, and respiratory distress. Clinical laboratory findings can show hypokalemia."
jat.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/1/36.full
Even though these symtoms don't always occur before death, this can hardly be considered a sudden death, right?
h1r43th4l1v3 I guess I meant immediate reaction, not sudden death. Thank you for clarifying.
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I ate one. And i feel sick. Am i gonna die?
Yes
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@@lisa4471 yeah
Everyday is a school day
Jojo anyone
Yewberry Fields Forever!!
There is a berry in Kentucky that I would call a sleeping berry.I ate one,tasted really good, I don't remember walking to my home, I fell asleep for 2 days,woke up parilized,by the 5th day I could walk.If I need to sleep,I would only eat 1/4 of a berry.
I've eaten handfuls of these berries twice in my life. Made sure to spit out seeds, but still feel weak and dizzy after those both times. Freaked me out. The red fruit is tasty, but not worth it in my opinion.
Well, don't eat handfuls.pick the seeds out carefully.
I don't like them though. They're rather slimy and I don't like how they taste.
my aunt has a bush with yew berries on them, not a tree?
Wait 100 years and it will be small tree. Wait 200 years and it's a big tree.
are you willing to wait that long?
As a mummy maybe ;)
When you plant cuttings (not seeds), you usually get bushes (not trees).
Luck man having that in your garden!!
Not deadly at all, I have been eating them since 2015, but don't eat the seed.
The Fortingal Yew
...the berries are NOT toxic, only the seeds, wood and leaves
girl tsk! why are you telling me?
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Oh my goodness I thought you would eat the whole yew berry thank goodness you didn’t
every part is toxic, only part safe is the red
BigHunTraps only if you chew them... Wtf are you talking about? I've eaten hundreds of these as a kid and never had a hiccup
Fun fact: they can kill a cat in seconds,
I hand a few of the red berry with the seeds and I am ok
You should cut out the last sentence. Others might get that wrong
Poor Tom died from this, rip
Maximillian Sukiman rip
Watch the worms wriggle out first?
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