Black onion seeds - panic

[Moz123]

hi

I am panicking here, just eaten a M&S meat pie that had black onion seeds sprinkled on the top. Halfway through I had a sudden thought "are these ok?" looked it up and it turns out black onion seed can cause miscarriage. I am really panicking now over this, am 15 weeks pregnant and have been so careful with food so far. How likely is it that what I've eaten will cause any thing? I'm not finding much information from google other than avoid if pregnant...anybody out there have any more information

Many thanks

I think you would need to eat very high quantities for it to matter, so don't worry about it.

Thanks for getting back so quickly. That what I'm trying to think as well. I'm usually quite sensible, but all that seems to have gone out the window.

As I often say on these threads, if something as simple as a small amount of a commonly eaten foodstuff could cause miscarriage, women would not have risked their lives over hundreds of years with unsafe backstreet abortions. There is a load of crap on the internet about what you can and can't eat. Be careful with Dr Google as a high percentage of what you look up is scaremongering rather than actual science. Follow the NHS guidelines about what you should avoid eating and you will be fine. For what it's worth, the NHS have not said anything about black onion seeds.

Without meaning for you to take this the wrong way or criticise your food choices I would be more concerned about the pie being processed, in particular meat much higher risk of food poisioning than any damage the onion seeds could do. Plus I couldn't find any conncrete reliable information that I would trust regarding them causing miscarriage.

I wouldn't worry at all am sure all is fine. As I said I'd be more worried about all the chemicals, additives and goodness knows what else might be in a pie. I personally am avoiding all things processed as think it is safer.

Yes well, even people who live off iceland frozen goods for nine months generally tend to give birth to babies who are fine. Honestly. Yes, additives are not good for you. They are not good for you regardless of if you are up the duff or not. Really we should all cook from scratch. But modern life often doesn't work like that.

THE PIE WILL NOT KILL YOUR BAYBEE.

Bejeena, you mean an M & S meat pie counts as processed food

You'll be fine OP, but what on earth made you wonder about onion seeds? Wouldn't have occurred to me

Hi

Just checking back in, thanks for the replies. You know when you get the immediate panic... that seems silly looking back on it today, but there we go, I couldn't help but panic! I thought I would be safe with an M&S pie! it looked so nice in it's box!

Thanks for the sensible replies.

I ate a load of grapes last night to up my vit/min quota to make up fir it. Then decided to google grapes...I think I should have my Internet taken off for the next few months and live in blissfull ignorance.

Oh yes, step away from Google or it'll be even worse when baby arrives and you get to check every development stage and slight sign of illness....