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  • From: "Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apricot kernels
  • Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:39:38 -0600

An adult can eat 17 kernels a day with no toxicity..

Topgun


----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>
To: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>; "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apricot kernels



On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Martha L. Davis wrote:

Stephan,

"As your friendly neighborhood biochemist" How do you suggest I
test apricot kernels for low amigdalyn levels? I am grafting a
variety of types, some of which are known to be sweet pit and some
bitter and some unknown. I am interested in using sweet ones as
nuts, but certainly not interested in cyanide poisoning. I know
that it is possible to use heat to denature the enzyme that
converts the precursor to the poison, when done on bitter pits one
gets a sort of solid almond flavoring not a nut in the munchie
sense, but it seems likely that that processing method isn't used
on the sweet pit ones and isn't needed. Any ideas?

Martha


Maybe this is a naive question, but wouldn't you be able to tell
which are "sweet" by tasting them? I didn't think apricot kernels
were so toxic that tasting one carefully would be harmful.

Ginda
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