….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
apple seeds have the same cyanide innards, but obviously not in such high quantities. you’d have to eat like 10 apple’s worth of seeds to feel the effect. for that matter, just swallowing a cherry pit whole isn’t going to do any harm, it’ll pass through your body before the outer layer breaks down. but deliberately cracking this stuff open and eating it isn’t the best idea
Literally cherry pits used to be used to make poison. Like, you crack the pits open, boil em for 8 hours, change the pits out for a new batch three times. Reduce the liquid and add honey and sugar. Bam.
hello internet. please stop believing things like this. One would have to eat a shit ton of cherry pits to get cyanide poisoning. A man did not get sent to the hospital from eating 3 cherry pits.
….he literally did did you not look at the news article I linked.
He was cracking them open and eating the meat.
Swallowing a pit whole won’t hurt you, since our digestive acids are not strong enough to dissolve the shell of the pit. But if you crack them open and eat the cyanide filled meat, then you’re gonna have a bad day.
Me; “Look at this thing that actually happened, as proved by this guy’s confession and the testimony of trained medical professionals.”
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