How to Use Plantain: If fresh plantain grows in your yard, you can make sure it has not been sprayed by pesticides or pets and use in teas or the young leaves in salads. For stings and bites, make a poultice of fresh plantain leaf and bentonite clay with water to form a paste.
Burnt food is considered carcinogenic, simply because the carbon molecules have the ability to disrupt our dna, it's able to break portions of DNA and insert itself within... this leads to our dna reproducing it self 'wrongfully' with a different structure.. potentially causing cancer.
No-one can say for sure, says Dr Paul Brent, the chief scientist of Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ). No-one has ever investigated whether people who eat a lot of burnt toast have higher cancer rates. And lab rats have never been fed burnt toast to see whether it causes tumours, Brent says. But there are chemicals in burnt toast that have been linked with cancers in both animals and humans.