In the recently released Indian movie "A Mother's Revenge", the heroine used apple seeds to successfully retaliate against the bad guys who raped her daughter, which surprised many people who ate apples as health, will apple seeds really make people deadly?
The seed of the apple itself is non-toxic, except that it contains a cyanoside, a substance found not only in apple seeds, but also in pears and cherries. At present, there are more than 50 kinds of cyanogen glycosides found in the world, the most well-known of which is bitter amygdalin, which contains this substance in almonds, with a content of about 2-4%.
Cyanidine itself has no life effect on our bodies, but after being metabolized by our digestive system, cyanidine is hydrolyzed to produce hydrogen cyanide, a highly toxic substance that can kill an elephant in a matter of minutes.
Nevertheless, let us not panic, although apples may poison us, but this possibility is still very low, almost impossible to happen.
Seeds are crushed or chewed before hydrogen cyanide is produced
As we've all seen before, the cyanosides in apple seeds are non-toxic and are only fatal to hydrogen cyanide produced by the breakdown of biological enzymes.
Pictured: Screenshot of "A Mother's Revenge"
Then the complete seed, too, is harmless. When you eat an apple, if you accidentally swallow a complete seed, don't worry at all, because only when the seed is crushed or chewed, it is possible to be poisonous.
Cyanidine content is extremely low
If we crush an apple seed and swallow it, does that mean we will be poisoned?
Experts believe that there is no need to worry at all. Because the content of cyanogenin in apples is very low, the content of each gram of apple seeds is only about a few hundred micrograms, which is a few tenths of the bitter almonds, as long as we do not deliberately eat apple seeds, this content does not constitute a standard of poisoning. Even if you eat it, not all cyanogen glycosides can decompose into hydrogen cyanide, so it is very rare to be poisoned by eating apple seeds.
Experts also believe that the human body has an immune effect on small doses of hydrogen cyanide.
We can roughly calculate that the average adult needs to eat 150 or even thousands of crushed apple seeds to be poisoned.
Suppose 150 seeds, an apple about 5-8 seeds, you need to eat at least 18 apples in a row, and the apple seeds are chewed and swallowed a lot to have the risk of poisoning, I believe that the big stomach king may not be able to do it.
Let's go back to the Indian movie "A Mother's Revenge", the heroine made poison through apple seeds, which was also completed with a staggering number of apple seeds.
Therefore, you can still have an apple every day, don't panic, as long as someone is not deliberately trying to harm you, eating apples will not poison you at all, and will make you more and more healthy, after all, an apple a day, you can stay away from the doctor.