Thinking back to my Entomology classes, the enzyme to breakdown cyanide is in the apple peel, the cyanide is in the apple seeds to protect them from "worms" which eat the seed inside the apples, not to protect them from large herbivores which act as dispersal vectors. As long as the apples are being ground whole I wouldn;t worry about it. I am not sure about the tannin question, I know that both chickens and turkeys ate the acorn silage I made in honduras, and turkeys eat the whole acorns.
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Rez Zircon wrote:On a related note, a medicinal use for apple seeds: peel and crush one and use it as a poultice on canker sores in your mouth. About 90% of the time it cures the canker sore within minutes. I discovered this by accident as a kid (what possessed me to try it remains a mystery). And I do mean cure, not just numb -- the sore goes away very suddenly, much faster than if left alone. Presumably it works because something in the seed (probably the toxin) kills viruses.
The seed does need to be sufficiently fresh that it still has that nasty appleseed flavor. Once they're completely dried out, this doesn't work.
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:hau, Joy. While it is true that eating the seeds of the fruit you eat can possibly prevent cancer, it would take a far larger amount of ingested seeds to even begin to heal cancer.
Rez Zircon wrote:Well, the "as many as the fruit has" rule isn't so good, considering that just ONE bitter almond or castor bean can be sufficient to kill.
But yeah, in cautious amounts they can have their uses. Just be careful of cumulative effects, particularly on kidney function.
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If you were to open up a peach or apricot pit and then eat the seed, it would not be long before convulsions began.
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Also don't forget that the human body changes as time goes by, allergies can manifest where none were present previously.
I am not attacking you or what you eat. Yet you seem to be reacting as if I am.
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:LOL, don't get me started on the FDA, I used to be with the USDA.
Bryant RedHawk wrote:If you were to open up a peach or apricot pit and then eat the seed, it would not be long before convulsions began. Question there is why would you go to the trouble?
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Cj Sloane wrote:This thread has gone in all sorts of unexpected directions. The people who chew seeds/pits reminds me of livestock which self-medicate.
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I take the core out and quarter the apples with a handy dandy tool I made.
It has a center piece of stainless steel pipe that is 1" ID x 3" long and four flats 4" wide by 6" tall, with pieces of the same pipe TIG welded to the tops of the flats for push handles.
I also made a food safe bottom board that lets the cores go to a separate bucket, it works like a slide.
Took a while to get that design to work but it does the job I wanted it to do.
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Amygdalin contents of seeds from fifteen varieties of apples ranged from 1 mg g(-1) to 4 mg g(-1). The amygdalin content of commercially-available apple juice was low, ranging from 0.01 to 0.04 mg ml(-1) for pressed apple juice..
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