The majority of plant phytochemicals with properties that are beneficial to human health simply exist to protect plants against insects (i.e functionally they a

The majority of plant phytochemicals with properties that are beneficial to human health simply exist to protect plants against insects (i.e functionally they are poisonous insecticides). There is even a theory in pharmacology to explain this precise observation, called hormesis [1]. The type of reasoning you use that relies on the scary affective connotation of WORDS is not a meaningful way to draw scientific conclusions. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18543123/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18543123/