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I see goats grazing in fields with hemlock. They'll give the hemlock a sniff and then avoid it while greedily eating everything else around it.
Stonefruit pits contain cyanide. (Including almonds.) I made apricot preserves one time and the recipe called for slivered pits to add a bit of flavor. Research it, it appears that you'd need to eat several hands full to poison yourself. And since it doesn't bioaccumulate, eating tiny bits is probably okay. (YMMV/not a doctor/don't rely on this/etc.)
https://www.amazon.com/Apricot-California-Pesticide-Herbicid...
The AI-generated summary of reviews ends with:
> The seeds are also mentioned as having cancer-healing properties.
Click on the "Health benefits" link to get many more suggestions of their cancer curing properties. One person was consuming them every hour and started to have difficulty breathing. IMHO, Amazon probably shouldn't be helping to spread this kind of misinformation.
Stonefruit pits contain cyanide. (Including almonds.) I made apricot preserves one time and the recipe called for slivered pits to add a bit of flavor. Research it, it appears that you'd need to eat several hands full to poison yourself. And since it doesn't bioaccumulate, eating tiny bits is probably okay. (YMMV/not a doctor/don't rely on this/etc.)
I was surprised to find Amazon promoting customer reviews suggesting bitter apricot seeds can heal cancer. https://www.amazon.com/Apricot-California-Pesticide-Herbicid... The AI-generated summary of reviews ends with: > The seeds are also mentioned as having cancer-healing properties. Click on the "Health benefits" link to get many more suggestions of their cancer curing properties. One person was consuming them ever…
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This is not the case, however, for bitter almonds.
My grandmother introduced us to a world of old-school delicacies, including Jordan almonds, candy-coated in a thick hard shell, and in pastel colors. On more than one occasion, I ate a box or two of those, so many that I had painful bellyaches and worse. It may not have been cyanide, but it was an instructive childhood lesson in "too much of a good thing". It's scary to think how much knowledge of poisons was in our…
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It's common to say that sulfur/natural gas smells "like rotten eggs" but I've probably not smelled a rotten egg in isolation for 40 years. But since I'm familiar with sulfur-type smells I could probably figure it out. I expect a future of bad and rotten eggs in our supermarkets...
I'm familiar with the smells of sulfur (at least memories from decades ago), natural gas additives (mercaptan) and having chickens that like to lay in random hidden places, rotten eggs. I don't think that there's much overlap in the scent profiles. Maybe a diluted rotten egg is similar to that smell of making black powder as a child, but not much.
Storytime, please?
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This is not the case, however, for bitter almonds.
My grandmother introduced us to a world of old-school delicacies, including Jordan almonds, candy-coated in a thick hard shell, and in pastel colors. On more than one occasion, I ate a box or two of those, so many that I had painful bellyaches and worse. It may not have been cyanide, but it was an instructive childhood lesson in "too much of a good thing". It's scary to think how much knowledge of poisons was in our…
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This is not the case, however, for bitter almonds.
My grandmother introduced us to a world of old-school delicacies, including Jordan almonds, candy-coated in a thick hard shell, and in pastel colors. On more than one occasion, I ate a box or two of those, so many that I had painful bellyaches and worse. It may not have been cyanide, but it was an instructive childhood lesson in "too much of a good thing". It's scary to think how much knowledge of poisons was in our…
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I was surprised to find Amazon promoting customer reviews suggesting bitter apricot seeds can heal cancer. https://www.amazon.com/Apricot-California-Pesticide-Herbicid... The AI-generated summary of reviews ends with: > The seeds are also mentioned as having cancer-healing properties. Click on the "Health benefits" link to get many more suggestions of their cancer curing properties. One person was consuming them ever…
In NileRed’s video “Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?”[0] he purchases some bitter almonds to measure the amount of cyanide in them. He is also worried about the baseless health benefits claims. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYagO-nup6c