Notes on eating plants that are rich in oxalic acid

Eating dairy products with plants that are high in oxalic acid can help prevent your body from absorbing the oxalates.

This is mainly because of the calcium in dairy. Calcium binds with oxalates to form a compound that your body can't absorb in your gut. Instead, it gets removed from your body.

This binding is important for stopping kidney stones made of calcium oxalate from forming, which are a common health problem linked to eating too many oxalates (Hossain et al., 2003).

Before I continue, here is a list of some common wild edible plants that are rich in oxalic acid: