I started eating the core for gut health. Won’t lecture you - google it if you like.
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In this thread: cyanide and depression
Sadly my granddad was only an average depression survivor.
We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
But on the plus side you get to fuck Helena Bonham Carter.
Well, someone does. It's all the same to her.
Apple seeds contain very small amounts of cyanide. Eating an occasional apple core won't kill you but too many apple seeds in a short amount of time will. I think this is why we instinctively avoid eating apple cores.
TL;DR: this is simply not true in practice
To be at risk of cyanide poisoning from apple seeds, you would need to consume a significant amount of crushed seeds, with estimates ranging from 150 to several thousand. The exact number depends on the apple variety. Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a compound that can release cyanide. The cyanide content is around 700 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide per apple seed. A lethal dose of cyanide is approximately 50-300 milligrams. Therefore, you would have to eat roughly 1,000 apple seeds to reach a lethal dose. Some calculations suggest that consuming slightly more than 250,000 seeds would be fatal. Eating 29-38 apple cores, assuming each apple has 6-8 seeds, could cause serious harm. You'd have to eat upwards of 20 apples in one sitting and chew all the seeds to be affected.
one time a kid in elementary school ate an apple and its core in front of me and i asked how he did it and all he said was "im russian"
My grandmother lived through the hunger winter and she remained adamant about not wasting any food. Those things have a big impact.
I honestly don’t understand why people don’t eat the core. It’s the same but a little more chunky. Why do so many people let perfectly edible and tasty food go to waste.
The seed cases taste like plastic
I ate the core at school but the teachers made me stop because "the seeds are poisonous!"
The seeds actually contain cyanide. Eating a single apple core doesn't have enough to kill you, but if you fill a 4oz cup with apple seeds and eat them in one sitting, you're cooked.
Very true. However, that fact didn't stop them from taking away my apple core.
Because it's barely edible and not tasty...
The seeds contain cyanide.
That's bad
Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach.
Cyanide isn't a bacteria
a very small amount. The seeds are not harmful to eat.
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