It turns out that some fruits from our daily diet are considered poisonous. Fatal outcomes are quite rare, since most of them, when properly processed, do not pose any harm. However, some fruits should still be treated with caution.
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Poisonous fruit
The venom in the fruit is mainly found in the seeds. For example, a toxic substance such as cyanide is present in small amounts in the seeds of peach, plum, cherry and apricot. If you accidentally eat 1-2 seeds of these berries, there will be no harm to health. However, when ingested in large quantities, hydrogen cyanide can cause many problems.
With a mild degree of poisoning, symptoms such as nausea, disorientation, vomiting, dizziness, anxiety, and headache are possible. If the poisoning has passed into a more severe stage, a person may have high blood pressure, heart rhythm disturbance, breathing will become difficult. In some cases, even death is possible.
Apples are absolutely safe for humans, but apple seeds also contain cyanide. But its dose here is much less than, for example, in peach or cherry pits. Therefore, only when eating a large number of apple seeds can harm your health.
Poisonous fruits, or rather seeds in them, do not pose a particular threat. The thing is that an adult human body is able to fight cyanide if its dose is low. But for children, cyanide is very dangerous even in negligible amounts. A child’s body can simply not cope with such loads. The same goes for animals.