how many apple seads would you have to eat to die if cyanide poisening?
2007-01-26 14:56:13 · 4 answers · asked by Harezichi 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
The lethal dose of HCN is about 50 mg. That's a lot of apple pips. But there is a small amount of risk from eating large amounts of apple pips and peach kernels and drinking large amounts of cherry brandy quickly. The good news is that if it doesn't kill you, you recover quickly. I received enough carbon monoxide, which works like cyanide, to make me very ill, but 6 hours later I was fighting fit, without medical intervention.
2007-01-26 15:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apple seeds DO contain cyanide.
Grinding apples and pressing them for cider doesn't release enough cyanide to be a problem; neither does cooking apples and straining them to make a sauce.
About the only way you can actually ruin into a problem with the toxicity of apple seeds is if you save the seeds from about a bushel of apples and eat them all at once.
2007-01-26 15:20:18 · answer #2 · answered by greβ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sugar in the apples absorb most of these small traces in the seeds. I think you would get sick and pass-out before you die from eating to many apple seeds. The cyanide is not in a processed form to be digested into your system.
2007-01-26 15:04:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what?
apple seeds now?
2007-01-26 15:00:47 · answer #4 · answered by Michael Dino C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋