All my life I have eaten poke salad and never did any thing but boil it and fry it up with eggs. I’m in my seventh decade and feel great.
My daddy loved eating it just as you describe. My m-i-l cooked it for years until she turned cooking duties over to the young’uns. She is in her late eighties.
I guess I have been taught that for so long, I just do it now without thinking. One time I didn’t do it but once and I had a bad case of the loosey gooseys. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it made me real particular about it.
Could have been the area we were in though, like some DDT or something sprayed a few decades back. No idea.