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Reminds me of why rabbonim advise against eating certain vegetables (like you mentioned the other day). The vegetable isn’t bad.

Eating the vegetable isn’t so much of an issue. The issue is that the vegetable is often infested with insects.

The average person cannot reasonably remove all those insects. Sometimes these vegetables are so infested that even an expert cannot remove them all. There are just as many insects than vegetable that the entire vegetable’s edibility is compromised.

It’s not even worth trying since there are more insects than vegetable.

I guess it’s a good thing that doctors emphasize preventing damage here.