On 8/10/07 10:19, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote:


"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
|
| While I wouldn't assert that no other parts of the apple plant contain
| cyanide, it is the pips (seeds) that are well known to contain
| cyanogenic glucosides. I am unaware of any reason to believe that the
| consumption of their cyanide content is a good thing - as opposed to
not
| markedly harmful in moderation. (I seem to recall that a cupful is
| dangerous.)

Only raw. You need to eat quite a lot more, if they are cooked - I
suspect that eating that much cooked apple in a sitting might have
other effects :-)

I like the flavour of apple pips, apricot kernels and the like.

I do rather like this one, though, with the concept of Mary Fisher
being a modern Huckleberry Finn ("There ain't gonna be no core").

I never read that book :-( I first ate an apple core when watching a
fellow cyclist doing it. He became my husband.

Core-eating isn't something I expect from others but I do wonder why people
peel apples before eating them. a daughter in law does it for her chiildren
because she says they won't like them. They've never had them :-)


People peel apples because if they've been sprayed, any residual is just
under the skin, or so a grower told me. I peel apples because for some
reason, if I eat them unpeeled I get stomach ache. And I don't like the
skin.

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