apricot kernel (entity)

Apricot kernels are the seeds of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca), which are contained internal the woody shell that comprises the pit of the apricot fruit. Depending connected the cultivar, some apricot kernels are true sweet they taste like almonds. These apricot kernels are used to make almond jelly, a famous Chinese dessert which isn't truly made of almonds, but a bit, ground-up apricot kernels.

Apricot kernels have a reputation as an anti-cancer food, because they are ladened beside "vitamin B17," which is believed with many people to have prophylactic effects against cancer, despite scientific studies failed to find any evidence of this.

What science does tell us is that people should glucinium careful when eating apricot kernels, because they also have relatively high amounts of the deadly poison cyanide. On average, an apricot kernel has about 0.5 mg of cyanide, and normally about 200 mg is needed to slaughter an adult, so it would require eating 400 apricot kernels…

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