• fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Different apples have different amounts of amygdalin in a seed. For children especially, with the wrong apple variety, there is indeed a risk.

    Few apple varieties have actually been studied too.

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      18 days ago

      . For children especially, with the wrong apple variety, there is indeed a risk.

      And yet there’s no documented cases of it happening…. Why…?

      You people are being alarmists over something your body can naturally remove. It’s a non-issue, There’s a reason why you can’t find a source to corroborate anything you’ve stated here.

      Unless you want to eat them like peanuts and masticate them beyond all recognition, no one is at risk dude.

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      18 days ago

      Even with varieties containing the highest amount, kids would still need to be eating nearly 20 or so cores, so the likelihood of poisoning is only a concern for those who might eat that much all at once.

      The likelihood for the average person is being extremely low, since extremely few people will eat that much all at once.