• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    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”

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    About a year ago, my grandpa experienced wondrous symptoms. So he went to the hospital. The doctor wasn’t sure what was wrong with him at first, so he had to stay for multiple days. After much discussing about possible causes, it turns out he’d eaten a piece of some random game that another family member brought along, and that he’d let thaw and then had refrozen it. That allowed the doctors to treat him successfully on, I believe, day 3.

    After leaving the hospital, he still wasn’t sure of the cause though — and you can’t just throw away perfectly good meat!; so he ate another piece of the defrosted game and, no surprise, went to hospital again. This time around, the diagnosis was a lot easier though.

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    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.

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      8 hours ago

      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.

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    10 hours ago

    My grandmother lived through the hunger winter and she remained adamant about not wasting any food. Those things have a big impact.

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    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.

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    Don’t eat the apple seeds. Their content can turn into cyanide during digestion.