Vantage with Palki Sharma Still got your Christmas tree? In Belgium, the city of Ghent suggested recycling it—and even eating it! Recipes like pine-needle soup and flavoured butter were inspired by ...

Belgium's Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain warned residents that Christmas trees are not edible after a town's website included using conifer needles to cook on its list of ways to ...

Jan. 8, 2025 Go ahead and recycle your Christmas tree. But please, the Belgian authorities say, don’t try to eat it. The country’s federal food agency delivered that unusual warning this week ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --Belgium's food safety agency issued a warning to residents to not turn their Christmas trees into food after a city's recycling recommendations included using the needles in recipes.

People in Belgium have been warned not to eat their Christmas trees. Authorities issued the warning in response to a suggestion people could reuse pine needles in recipes as a way to avoid waste.

It included a suggestion of making flavoured butter and soup from the pine needles, taking inspiration from traditional Scandinavian recipes. “Your Christmas tree is edible as long as it is not ...

Belgium’s Federal Food Agency on Tuesday warned people to not eat their Christmas trees after a city council suggested recipes to reuse conifers following the holiday season. The agency was ...

Belgium's food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up Tuesday: don't eat your Christmas tree. The unusual message came after the city of Ghent, an environmentalist ...

Ken and Cathy Scott hosted a Christmas Around the World gathering with exchange students and their families at their farm ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --Belgium's food safety agency issued a warning to residents to not turn their Christmas trees into food after a city's recycling recommendations included using the needles in recipes.