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A glass of pure caffeine would kill you. Probably any single compound naturally present in fruits and vegetables would kill you if you drank a concentrated, pur
by brandonmenc 8y ago
A glass of pure caffeine would kill you. Probably any single compound naturally present in fruits and vegetables would kill you if you drank a concentrated, purified cup of it.
- fggcc 8y agoList of things in fruit that, if consumed pure, wouldn’t kill me (a cup): 1. Water 2. Fiber 3. Sugar (that would hurt though) 4. Protein Yes, trace amounts of essential oils would kill me if purified and I drank a cup of it. But be precise! Also, we’ve co-evolved with essential oils in plants. We haven’t co-evolved with synthetic chemicals. Therefore, synthetic analogies can be expected to behave in a similar but devastatingly different manner (nicotine, vs nicotine-like. Natural vs. synthetic insulin, etc)
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- titzer 8y agoOf course we all know this. I intentionally hyperbolized.