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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Killer Apples
Message-ID: <1623@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 14:15:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 14:15:14 1986
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Keywords: apples arsenic
Summary: 

In article <3012@pesnta.UUCP> earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) writes:
>I heard that the seeds of apples contains arsenic or strychnine (or something
>like that).  If you chew about 10+ seeds, you're a gonner.  Any truth to this
>I wonder?
>
>"an apple a day will make you pass away..." :-)

I had it from a reliable source that LARGE amounts of apple seeds
will be dangerous.  Ten seeds would NOT.  A man died of arsenic 
poisoning after eating, all in one day, one cup of seeds he'd been
saving.  He was a health food nut [no pun intended] as I recall . . .
-- 
T Cox
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