Eating radishes when pregnant? Panicked.. oh my

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Hi,
Today I thought I'd make a salad with lots of veggies and added 5 radishes. I rinsed them under cold water then added them to my salad.

After I'd finished eating I suddenly remembered sprouts are out so I checked online and terrified myself over eating radishes.

I won't eat them again but am I at serious risk of getting ill? Is there anything I can do now?

Any advice would be amazing.

Thanks

I have never ever heard advice not to eat radishes. Where did you read this?

I’ve never heard this; unless it’s on the nhs website I don’t pay any attention as you can find anything on the internet to prove or disprove what you want

Can you post the link where it says radishes are dangerous in pregnancy?

www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/sprouted-seeds-safety-advice/

I found it on the NHS website link above.

I’ve not heard of either sprouts or radishes being dangerous 😳

Did the radishes say 'ready to eat' on the packaging? Nhs says they're ok to eat raw

www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/sprouted-seeds-safety-advice/

Surely radishes come under the category of "ready to eat" that can be eaten raw...

But they’re not dangerous TO your baby. It’s just that in the vanishingly unlikely event that there weee harmful germs on them then you’re more likely to fall ill than someone who’s not pregnant - that’s all.

The first line says that In the last 22 years there have been 30 cases worldwide.

On a scale of 1-10, this wouldn’t be the thing I was going to worry about.

No they said wash before eating. I should of checked beforehand but didn't believe there would be any problem with a radish.

Hopefully it's low risk if it just happens once.

I've been pregnant twice and never seen that advice before. It's not mentioned on the pages referring to foods not to eat in pregnancy

were not weee

Also, I’ve never not eaten sprouts when pregnant.

I was addicted to radishes when I was pregnant with dd1, ate a few bags a day for months. You and baby will be fine

Radishes aren't sprouts.

Sprouts can be a harbour of bacteria because they are grown in forced conditions which are hot and damp, perfect for bacteria to thrive.

A radish is just a standard soil grown veg.

You're misreading if you think it means whole sprouts or radishes.

It means the sprouts that come from the seeds of things like mung beans or alfalfa. So like this markitonutrition.com/radish-sprouts/

You're absolutely fine with radishes like you might pull up out of the ground that are red and peppery. The tiny little sprouts when they're not yet grown up radishes are the bits with the problem.

Thanks for pointing this out. I completely slipped the first paragraph.

I think this just means sprouted radish seeds, not actual radishes! Similarly it doesn’t mean brussel sprouts are unsafe.

Sprouted seeds have greater risk than many other foods of carrying harmful bacteria. I think this because the conditions for sprouting seeds (warm, damp) are also great for bacteria to grow in, plus they are often eaten raw so bacteria not killed in the cooking process.

Radishes themselves I don’t think are any more risky than say tomato or cucumber!

And it means bean sprouts (not Brussels sprouts)

All fruit and veg need to be washed if you need to avoid food poisoning, nothing additional required for radishes

Cross post!

Brussels sprouts are also absolutely fine for anyone in any doubt

What? I just googled it and nothing came up from any real credible websites (like NHS). In fact if you google Radish Pregnancy NHS nothing comes up at all.

You're bad at googling then as 2 of us have posted nhs links (although they are about radish sprouts rather than actual radish root veg)

Radishes and radish sprouts are two different things. I also wouldn't worry about eating sprouts anyway. There have been 30 cases in about 20 years. Sprouts are really good for you. Just eat them fresh.

Stick to this list but even so plenty don’t. I did the odd one by accident but friends didn’t because they weren’t worried. Many are on this list to reduce the risk of types of food poisoning.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/foods-to-avoid-pregnant/