Who eats all the apple?

[dbmzk1]

Some proper weirdos in this world!

 

[Gixer]

I eat all the apple apart from the stalk.

There's no cyanide in them, it's amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside. Also found in peach kernels, cherry pits and plums stones. (No I don't eat them).

Look up what a cyanogenic glycoside is. I'm not really into chemistry however from what I read a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group. In the case of cyanogenic glycoside it happens to be a molecule from the cyanide group.

I read up on amygdalin, have too much of that and it is potentially toxic or lethal due to cyanide poisoning.

So from what I've read whilst it may be amygdalin that is in the seeds it is the cyanide part, not the sugar part, that will kill you if you decided to munch on seed after seed. I could have interpreted things incorrectly however.

 

[Feek]

Yes, the seeds are poisonous but you'd have to eat so many of them, so quickly that your stomach would explode before you'd taken enough in to even make you feel a little ill.

Maybe.

 

[Sliver]

I prefer pears.

 

[BubbySoup]

First the banana thread now the apple thread...


*Patiently awaits the whole lemon thread*

My girlfriend liquidises whole lemons, skin and all and then drinks them

 

[Sliver]

My girlfriend liquidises whole lemons, skin and all and then drinks them

I hope one day she gets the help she needs.

 

[j_walsh]

Eat the lot except the stalk, weird?

 

[xxalxx]

Yep, all but the stalk, only weirdos don't

 

[dcsarge]

Yes, the seeds are poisonous but you'd have to eat so many of them, so quickly that your stomach would explode before you'd taken enough in to even make you feel a little ill.

Maybe.

This sounds like a GD challenge to me .

 

[Angilion]

I don't want to eat all the apple (aren't the seeds poisonous if you eat like a million or something? ) but I have started to eat all of the kiwi, skin and all. Nice roughage

As far as I can tell, the probably lethal dose could be contained in as few as 2 apple seeds per kg of bodyweight in an adult human. So rather less than a million seeds.

It would vary, though, since apple seeds don't contain cyanide itself. They contain a compound that your digestive system reacts with to produce cyanide, so the amount would depend on your digestion. My guess would be more than 2 per kg unless you ground them up first, since apple seeds are pretty hard for humans to digest.

I doubt if it's a significant risk. Maybe if you ate apple seeds by the handful, but who would do that?

 

[Angilion]

Only crazy people eat the core. Nobody else. Just crazy people.

But...but...what about people who are horse furries? Horses eat the core.

 

[Angilion]

The seeds are poisonous, they contain arsenic.

No, they don't. A precursor to cyanide, but no arsenic unless they're contaminated with it somehow.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

I doubt if it's a significant risk. Maybe if you ate apple seeds by the handful, but who would do that?

Apparently someone was so fond of crunching apple pips that they saved up a whole cup full of them and ate the lot at once and as a result they're no longer with us. I heard this from a well known horticulturist on the telly but can find no other source for it.