Are apple seeds poisonous humans?!


Question: Are apple seeds poisonous humans!?
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Answers:
Apple seeds contain arsenic!. However, you'd have to eat a pickup truck full of apple seeds in order to kill yourself!.

Edit: I was wrong!. Apple seeds contain cyanide!. This is from wikipedia:

"(Apple) seeds are mildly poisonous, containing a small amount of amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside; usually not enough to be dangerous to humans, but it can deter birds"!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

No!. They do contain a small amount of cyanide!. However, you would have to eat bushels of them to get sick!. You should make sure you don't ever give a dog apple with the seeds!. It could kill a small dog!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Yes, they are!. But it's such a small amount in each seed!.!. You'd probably have to quite a bit for them to actually make you sick!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

nope,
not unless you eat a lot of them
but they is a higher chance of getting appendicitis if you eat the middle bit of an appleWww@FoodAQ@Com

WELL THEY have a chemical in them!.!.
that is considered poisonist!
so idkWww@FoodAQ@Com

Lord I hope not, I've eaten several in my lifetime!.!.and I'm still here!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

yes! >:] i put some hot sauce on them! >:]Www@FoodAQ@Com





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