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As a person who always eats the whole apple, stem and all (have done so for years), I'll object to your "apple seeds do not taste good" statement - tastes diffe
by wdrw 23d ago
As a person who always eats the whole apple, stem and all (have done so for years), I'll object to your "apple seeds do not taste good" statement - tastes differ, to me they are delicious, certainly on par with other "normally edible" seeds like sunflower seeds! Of course I wouldn't eat them in any great quantity because of the poison issue.
- johnnyApplePRNG 23d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning#Chronic_exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning#Chronic_expo...
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- celsoazevedo 23d agoHow many apple seeds do you need to eat to get to that point?
- gambiting 23d agohttps://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you As linked in the original article - says 150 seeds to a few thousand depending on the apple variety.
- bastawhiz 23d agoBy "they don't taste good" I wasn't trying to imply that they taste bad, though maybe they do to some folks. At least to me they don't taste like anything (they lack a good flavor). For me and probably many folks, the flavor isn't something that attracts me to eating the seeds.
- car 22d agoMarzipan
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- nxpnsv 23d agoThe logical next step is to eat the tree.
- fruit2020 23d agoI also eat the whole apple and like to crunch the seeds.
- gerdesj 23d agoBloody 'eck. This sounds like a chat around the back of the bike sheds off of the '70's onwards. Yes, apple pips do have a tiny amount of cyanide in them (but why) This is a from a reasonable source and relates to cherries: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-40738573 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-40738573 I think we can assume that apples and cherries are OK to eat. Apple pips are fine and why on earth would you want to crunch through a cherry stone.
- joecool1029 22d ago>I think we can assume that apples and cherries are OK to eat. Apple pips are fine and why on earth would you want to crunch through a cherry stone. Black cherries (prunus serotina) I ate a whole bunch of during late summer. Much smaller than the Prunus avium (sweet cherry) which ripens around early June here. Allegedly the fruit does contain the cyanide producing compounds but without the enzymes. The catch is if you chew the pits (or eat the leaves/stems) it is poisonous. Poisons a lot of horses and other livestock: https://horsedvm.com/poisonous/black-cherry-trees https://horsedvm.com/poisonous/black-cherry-trees
- stevekemp 22d agoInterestingly if you get an allergic reaction to apples you get that same reaction to cherries, something I only learned recently.
- sriacha 22d agoThere's a long history of cherry stone consumption for some cherry species, they are very nutritious and the cyandide is removed by processing/drying/cooking. Delicious almond like flavor, have experimented with wild chokecherries (Prunus virginiana).