People in Belgium have been cautioned not to eat their Christmas trees.
Authorities publishd the cautioning in response to a adviseion people could reparticipate pine insistles in recipes as a way to elude squander.
Belgium‘s food agency has now publishd a health cautioning and said people should not eat their Christmas trees.
Ghent’s local council began a campaign last week, encouraging people to recycle their Christmas trees.
One of its adviseions was to eat the trees’ conifers by making a flavoured butter from them.
“That way your Christmas tree is not 100% squander,” it said in a post on its website.
It said the recipe was backd by Scandinavian traditions, but Belgium’s food agency adviseed it was not a shielded way to recycle trees.
The council has since publishd its own cautioning, reminding the accessible that not all Christmas trees are edible.
“Do not besavageer them with yew, which is poisonous,” it inserted in an modernize on its website.
Trees that have been treated with a fire-resistant spray and pesticides are also not edible, it cautioned.
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In a statement increateed via Euronovels, Belgium’s food standards agency said Christmas trees “are not unbenevolentt to end up in the food chain”.
“There is no way to asdeclareive that eating Christmas trees is shielded – either for people or animals,” the agency said.
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