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from Jane Ransom contains these words:

In article . 10,
Victoria Clare writes

I believe that I have read of someone who got appendicitis through eating
apple cores and the pips becoming lodged in the appendix.

It's an old wives tale. Applepips are no more likely to get lodged in
the appendix than any other undigested seeds, grains etc.

I used to eat the whole of the apple except the stalk.
Had a perforated gangrenous appendix at the age of 8

My sister and mother both had a perforated appendix, and neither of
them ate pips.


Janet.