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How many apple seeds does it take to kill you?

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Apple seeds contain a cyanide compound. Although very small, the body can detoxify the amount of cyanide in apple seeds without harm. Because of this one would have to ingest an inordinate amount (huge) of apple seeds before one would even get sick. read more

If your mother ever warned you not to eat apple cores, it was with good reason. Yeah OK, so apples don't really have cores, but they do have those rough middle sections full of seeds, and those seeds can harbor concentrations of molecules called cyanogenic glycosides. read more

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