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  • From: dwoodard@becon.org
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] dwarf almonds
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:59:08 -0400 (EDT)

Lon, are you sure that cooking destroys the cyanide compound?

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Lon Rombough wrote:

> Sounds like Prunus tenella. Tom Plocher in Hugo, MN said he had some
> bushes of that species that produced 300 nuts per bush after -40 F.
> The species is sold as an ornamental by several nurseries. They are
> bitter, so the nuts have to be cooked to be safely edible.
> -Lon Rombough






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