Assuming you never want to use strike-through text (who does?), you can customise (or otherwise modify) the variable `org-emphasis-alist` to remove the entry for "+".  

Will


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:

> How do I put such an item in a table without org table
> misinterpreting it?

You can't.

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