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firstly,
i think apple seeds taste good.
they may in fact be poisonus
to some extent, but 25 years of seed eating,
12+ as an orchard farmhand have not hurt me.
(that i know)

the cider mill we use cuts nearly every seed,
i have never tasted any seed flavor in our cider.
ncb


Quoting Don Yellman <don.yellman@webformation.com>:

> Mark & Bruce:
> 
> Most of the apple seeds that pass through a kitchen disposal grinder do end
> up in pieces, although some seem to get through whole.  They leave no
> perceptible off taste that anyone has been able to notice here.
> 
> The question of cyanide release from the seeds is one I cannot address with
> scientific certainty, since I have no means to measure it.  There is quite a
> bit of commentary available on this issue on the net.  Most seems to suggest
> it would take quite a few pure apple seeds actually ingested to supply a
> dangerous dose of cyanide.  While some cyanide may enter the juice during 
> the
> pressing process, it is my guess that the bulk of it would be discarded with
> the dry pressing residue.  Many commercial juice operations also use
> hammermill type grinders, and some knife grinders, producing a slurry much
> like that produced like the disposal.  Nevertheless, the relative importance
> of this issue is something that each has to decide for himself.  My 
> royalties
> on the disposal grinder will remain the same no matter how many are built. 
> Or not.
> 
> My press is a homebuilt acme screw type, with a wooden frame around a steel
> inner frame composed of upper and lower U-girders, connected by long,
> threaded steel rods.  The pressing force is borne entirely by the steel 
> inner
> frame.  I am beginning to notice some wear on the nut welded to the top
> girder through which the 1-inch acme screw passes, but this has taken some
> years.  I did not build the press.  It was given to me by a gentleman from
> West Virginia who no longer used it because of his advanced age.  He has
> since passed on.  He was an engineer and knew what he was doing.
> 
> Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA    
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