Are wild blackberries safe to eat?

I ate all I could find as a kid. I’m still here.

Yes, I used to eat them as a child when they grew next to our shed.

This link should put your mind at ease.

Oh my gosh, YES! I live in wild blackberry land over here and these is nothing more delicious in the summer.
The only time they are not safe to eat is if they are growing along a busy road where they absorb carbon monoxide. I have a secret spot along the river here and I get all the best ones by harvesting along the water where the deer and raccoons and other critters cannot go. I wade up river in the shallows and gather bowls full hanging over the water. :-D

Wild blackberries tend to be smaller and sweeter. They are delicious. just wash them well before eating or cooking.

They are, to quote Hawkeye Pierce, “Finestkind.”

Favorite thing to eat while walking on a forest path or maybe wild blueberries !

This question really peturbs me.

Have we really reached the point where eating actual food found in nature is scary?

@rojo Well actually, some things found in nature are quite poisonous, so it never hurts to ask when one is unsure.

I concur. But blackberries?

I would rather have wild blackberries than those grown using pesticides.
Put them in a bowl, and add milk and sugar. Fantastic!

It’s probably not as healthy to eat them if you picked them growing along a roadside because there would be residue from car fumes on them. This would be the same if they were growing on a fence row of a field that gets sprayed with some noxious pesticide. But in general, wild blackberries are awesome.

What @snowberry said.

Same goes for hookers.

Here all the wild berries are delicious, if the birds leave enough for us. Blue, rasp. and black.

Maybe you’ll feel more brave to try them with a baked pie? :D good luck

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Absolutely. When I was little we used to vacation in the Catskills in NY and wild blackberries grew in great numbers. We, the children, would pick bowls full and the people who worked in the kitchen where we stayed would bake them in pies. My MIL boils them with some sugar and creates an ice cream topping.

I used to live in the country and we had thousands of large blackberries on bushes that were growing wild. I not only ate as many as I wanted, I also made blackberry preserves that were sensational. Then my EX mowed them down. It broke my heart and we divorced less than a year later. I’m sure they’re back again, though.

We still pick and eat dewberries from the fencelines around the farm and my son made a passable (or if you prefer, drinkable) wine out of the wild muscadine grapes growing in the trees.

They grow right next to my house! I pick them right off and pop them into my mouth(: They’re fine to eat, and pretty tasty! They’re safe, don’t worry. Even though there are bugs on it, it’s fine. It’s natural.

Damn, I used to literally live on wild blackberries, as well as wild apples and blueberries when I was a kid. I lived on them when I was homeless too, while living under a carport. Outside of pollution related reasons there’s nothing dangerous about wild blackberries that I can recall.

Don;t ignore the mulberries, either. They are plentiful and sweet when ripe. You just have to get to them before the birds do. And don’t stay under the tree while feasting, or you are likely to get a whole different perspective on bird’s doo.