Have you ever bought it off of the store shelf? Sorry it's not in the snack cake section next to Little Debbie.
Have you ever had a neighbor offer you bamboo shoots and fail to mention that it requires preparation to reduce the toxin?
Here's a brief article off the top of my search.
8 Foods That Could Kill You (If You Eat Enough of Them)
Eat enough of these toxic fruits and vegetables, and you'll suffer the consequences.
By
Jasmin Sun
We're not trying to say that the world is out to get you, but at times you might want to exercise caution. Each of these eight otherwise delicious and healthy fruits and vegetables have naturally occurring toxins that, while safe to ingest every so often (the body is pretty resilient that way), can definitely kill you depending on how, and how much of it you decide to eat. We've also done some quick math* to figure out how much you can eat before things get...lethal. Now go forth and satisfy that morbid curiosity:
Cherries, Apricots, Plums, Peaches: Cyanide
Don't freak out if you accidentally swallow a cherry pit—
they're rarely poisonous when eaten whole—but whatever you do, don't eat a broken pit. Because aside from tasting really bitter and generally being impossible to chew, the stones of certain stone fruits, like cherries, apricots, plums and peaches, contain cyanogenic compounds—science talk for "stuff that your body can turn into cyanide." So, how many cherry pits is a lethal amount of cherry pits? After some quick Googling, we found that hydrogen cyanide
is lethal at about 1.52 milligrams per kilogram, meaning that it takes little more than 0.1 grams (a dime weighs about one gram) of the toxin to dispatch a 150-pound human. A single cherry
yields roughly 0.17 grams of lethal cyanide per gram of seed, so depending on the size of the kernel, ingesting just one or two freshly crushed pits can lead to death.
I've studied under a top herbalist and wild edible expert who raised 4 healthy children on wild edibles.
I made a mistake on trusting a source next door without doing the homework.
However, I have done untold thousands of hours of homework on nutrition and natural health.
How many hours of classes have you taken from renowned nutritionists?
Tell me where I'm off about my previous post on carbs lynx.
I'm waiting.
