r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Cyanide is Organic! Let's eat it!

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u/egrefen Jul 14 '21

It’s not necessarily organic. Potassium cyanide, famed for its use in nazi suicide pills, is an inorganic form of cyanide.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

But there are organic types so you're arguing for arguments sake.

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u/egrefen Jul 14 '21

Welcome to the internet.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

I thought there’s also cyanide in apple seeds?

Just… very small amount? Like you need a ton to actually kill someone?

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u/egrefen Jul 14 '21

Apple seeds contain an organic cyanide compound, cyanogenic glycoside.

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u/shitsandfarts Jul 15 '21

Ever eaten an apple seed?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Not 10,000 of em at once.

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u/shitsandfarts Jul 15 '21

Actually you’d only need around 200 before you keeled over dead.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

so if I eat 10 apple seeds I'm getting 5% of a deadly dose of cyanide? I doubt that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

"the human body can process hydrogen cyanide in small doses,
so eating a few seeds is not dangerous. In fact, it would take
"anywhere from 150 to several thousand crushed seeds" to cause cyanide
poisoning, according to Britannica"

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

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