• Question: Apple seeds have cyunide in them. How many seeds would a human need to eat before he or she died?

    Asked by motherbear to James, Evan on 20 Jun 2011.
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      Evan Keane answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I think that they don’t have cyanide, but they have “amygdalin” which produces a bit of cyanide during digestion. But that bit is very small and I think the answer is that you would need to eat more than 1 million apples in a day! And if you did that you would die for other reasons! 🙂

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