Is there arsenic in apple seeds?

Most apple cores contain around 5 apple seeds. However, this amount will vary based on the health of the plant. You would need to finely chew and eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 40 apple cores, to receive a fatal dose. The Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) says that exposure to even small amounts of cyanide can be dangerous. read more

Were apple pips susceptible to the eroding effects of digestive juices, apple trees could not reproduce nearly as well as they do, as their seeds would not be so widely spread and a good many of the pips would be destroyed before germinating. read more