Guild Wars 2

So just now I decided to help out my friend who is working on her cooking by sending her all the random chef ingredients I’d been throwing into storage. Upon attempting to send her the things I found several items that were labeled as account bound. I’m completely confused here as I obviously have no chef of my own and have never once bought a food item from the karma vendors.

How am I now stuck with several materials I have no use for and cannot be rid of in a productive or helpful way?

Some of the stuff that drops are also sold off vendors, these are all account-bound. (for example Celery can be bought from vendor, but also drops in Wayfarer Foothills from the supply bags).

Tomatoes are also account-bound. Is this behavior intended or something that was overlooked?

Also, if you buy it with karma, you can’t send it to another toon. This also applies to gathering tools and salvage kits. You can’t even use it on another one of your toons (which I disagree with).