Snopes: Luckily for those fond of their Granny Smiths, the body can detoxify cyanide in small doses, and the number of apple seeds it takes to pack a lethal punch is therefore so huge that even the most dedicated of apple eaters is extremely unlikely to ingest enough pips to cause any harm. Yet those who have heard apple seeds house a poison (usually remembered as arsenic, a quite different though equally deadly compound) cling to the frightening belief swallowing a small number of pips spells instant death.
I can’t find an estimate right now, but you would have to eat at least a big handful of seeds, while making sure you grind them up in your mouth. It’s not wise to worry about this.
. For children especially, with the wrong apple variety, there is indeed a risk.
And yet there’s no documented cases of it happening…. Why…?
You people are being alarmists over something your body can naturally remove. It’s a non-issue, There’s a reason why you can’t find a source to corroborate anything you’ve stated here.
Unless you want to eat them like peanuts and masticate them beyond all recognition, no one is at risk dude.
Even with varieties containing the highest amount, kids would still need to be eating nearly 20 or so cores, so the likelihood of poisoning is only a concern for those who might eat that much all at once.
The likelihood for the average person is being extremely low, since extremely few people will eat that much all at once.
Don’t eat the apple seeds. Their content can turn into cyanide during digestion.
You would need to eat a lot of seeds, estimated over 150, to do harm.
https://curejoy.com/content/are-apple-seeds-poisonous/ https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/20/fact-check-apple-seeds-have-cyanide-but-not-enough-kill/3359754001/
Kill and Do Harm are not exactly the same. My vote is toss the apple core into a field unless apples are not native or present there.
Apple seeds dont typically grow in to apple trees with actually tasty fruit
We’ve also spent a lot of time and effort genetically modifying apple trees to get more, tasty, feuit, and less seeds.
Just compare a modern banana to a wild banana.
I didn’t say it would.
True, and… there’s a difference between Killing, doing harm, and benefitting. The dose makes the poison.
Amygdalin as a Promising Anticancer Agent: Molecular Mechanisms and Future Perspectives for the Development of New Nanoformulations for Its Delivery https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10531689/
An update on the toxicity of cyanogenic glycosides bioactive compounds: Possible clinical application in targeted cancer therapy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0254058420302200
If your metric for “actually good for you” is “used in cancer therapy” then you’re going to live a very very short lifespan.
nah
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I can’t find an estimate right now, but you would have to eat at least a big handful of seeds, while making sure you grind them up in your mouth. It’s not wise to worry about this.
You would have to ingest an ungodly amount in one sitting, it’s a non-issue.
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And yet there’s no documented cases of it happening…. Why…?
You people are being alarmists over something your body can naturally remove. It’s a non-issue, There’s a reason why you can’t find a source to corroborate anything you’ve stated here.
Unless you want to eat them like peanuts and masticate them beyond all recognition, no one is at risk dude.
Even with varieties containing the highest amount, kids would still need to be eating nearly 20 or so cores, so the likelihood of poisoning is only a concern for those who might eat that much all at once.
The likelihood for the average person is being extremely low, since extremely few people will eat that much all at once.
No thanks. I eat the whole apple daily.
Same.
So do I - apples generally have very few seeds. I don’t eat the stem though.
How else am I supposed to built up a tolerance for cyanide if I don’t microdose insignificant amounts daily?