Under what circumstance would you eat the seeds of an apple knowing that it contains Cyanide?

….Other than if you want o do harm to yourself that is.

Its not enough to affect you.

I eat every part of the apple except the external stem.

Yup, no impact with one apple.

Keywords: “in high doses”. You’re not going to find amounts anywhere near enough to harm you in a single apple.

There are different types of cyanide, all being poisonous. Potassium cyanide is the most lethal while sodium cyanide is used to separate precious metals from ores using a leeching process.

Seeds in apples usually pass through the digestive tracts of animals so that the seeds can be deposited far from the tree whence they came.

Somewhere I read that it would take the seeds of about 150 apples to be toxic. I do not know the exact number, but to the best of my memory it was much more apples than anyone could actually eat.

I’d eat the seeds if someone who thought “OMG cyanide” bet me some money to do it. I’ve known people who regularly ate complete apples with seeds since lower school, so it’s been abundantly demonstrated for me that they’re not dangerous.

I would not knowingly eat them.

knowing that there’s too little to cause harm.

Dose makes the poison. Almost anything in a high enough dose will kill you, even water. As @Yellowdog said, it would take seeds from about 150 apples to get to that point. I wonder what they do with the seeds from an applesauce factory…

What if the information as to how many it would take is debatable? Or what if it’s shown in the future that it’s wrong info, and that would take much fewer apples than 150 or whatever number?

The “Dose makes the poison” happens to be technically correct, but it would get a lot of people wasting a lot of time figuring out how much…about all kinds of things for nothing. Something like Cyanide esp., how about, “no no, a thousand times no”, and move on to the next topic, no matter how many apples it would take, (Edited to add last words in text: …which is not written in stone”.)

@flo – that’s what animal testing is for.

@RocketGuy Animal testing or no animal testing, are you for lay individauls wasting time on “How to many seeds would lead to death?” and then eating them?
By the way re. the 150 apples figure, is it in one sitting or is 90 yrs, or is it somewhere in the middle or…?

Sugar is a deadly carcinogen, if you mix it with 150 lbs of saccharin,

@Yellowdog

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/how-sugar-affects-your-body

Potassium will kill you (indeed, that’s why they use it in lethal injections). Now think over that the next time you set down with a glass of milk or orange juice. Or eat potatoes, yams, or bananas, or mixed nuts, or anything with soybean or bran…

Necessities, and non necessity.

The point, and your head.

…Worse than “non-necessity”, actually. Necessities, and poison.