India, June 2 -- Eating raw vegetables, especially in the form of various fancy salads, is often interpreted as a picture of healthy eating. However, that is not really the case for a few specific vegetables, which pose far greater risk in being consumed raw than the benefits that they may provide.

Taking to Instagram on May 31, Dr Shubham Vatsya, gastroenterologist and hepatologist at ISIC Multispeciality Hospital, listed three such vegetables and highlighted the health risks that they present in their raw form.

One of the most popular green vegetables that can be turned into a wide variety of dishes, spinach should never be consumed raw, according to Dr Vatsya. Despite what cartoons like Popeye might suggest, spinach in its uncooked f...