My grandpa was a Great Depression child. I remember my mom would have to dig through his pantry and throw out the expired food every time we visited, that man would throw nothing usable away ever.
My grandmother was great depression and instead of throwing away food, we just ate it all!
…hm, wonder where my fucked up relation with food comes from. Oh well, we’ll never know!
Unopened dry food doesn’t expire in most cases.* Nutrition and taste may get worse, but it’s not harmful.
*(properly sealed, shelf stable, reasonable time frames)
Nah, 12 year old Nilla Wafers can go, actually
They’ll probably flavorless rocks, just dunk them in milk.
What a waste, most canned foods are good several years after the marked “best by” date.
Wasn’t canned food…
Oop, nevermind good work
Weird. I eat it because it tastes good, like the rest of the apple, and I like the texture of the pips.
Same. It’s just more apple with a little less juice but crunchier. On riper apples it’s got exactly the right texture.
I don’t see why I wouldn’t eat something that’s edible and tastes good?
a kid at lunch did that in front of me and i asked him how he did that and he said “im russian”
If you want to actually know, you eat it vertically instead of horizontally like most are taught. You honestly barely notice the core if you eat it this way, I do it to get a reaction sometimes. You can probably find videos online if you’re not sure exactly what I mean.
Bonus: you save that bottom minge for last that way.
I eat the stem and leaves of strawberries because I’m too lazy to get a place to put them and throw them away when I’m done. Just eat them all at once, you don’t really notice the green mixed in with the fruit part.
Kinda similar, I used to eat stem of grapes.
Kinda similar when I eat oranges I eat the peel as well.
that. seems like a commitment
If you eat it from the bottom up, the core isn’t that bad in terms of texture. As long as you spit out the seeds, it’s all edible.
You can eat the seeds as well. Just uncomfortable, not unsafe. There isn’t enough “cyanide” inside 1 apples seeds. You’d need to eat on the absolute lowest estimate, 10-20+kg of apples and grind up, not chew, the seeds to get enough chemicals to create enough cyanide for a poisoning.
ACKSHUALLY the risk isn’t in the cyanide. It’s because if you eat the seeds a new apple tree will start growing inside your body. Once it gets too big your body will be torn apart and you fucking die. The only way to fix it is to send in a gardener with a chainsaw, which is obviously risky and painful.
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Can’t enjoy watermelon; can’t enjoy apples; what next.
Haha I just mentioned this in another comment. It’s like one of my favorite little food factoids. My daughter who is still just 3 has always eaten the whole apple, and it always made my wife worry she was going to die. I’m like nah she’ll be fine.
Is it true that you build up an immunity to cyanide by eating the seeds, or is that just an old wives tale kind of thing?
You cannot build up an immunity to cyanide. The mechanism of action for it to act as a poison is that it directly limits aerobic respiration on a molecular level. To put that more simply, it stops oxygen from getting where it needs to go and effectively stops your cells from “breathing”, ultimately stopping your mitochondria from functioning. To put that in a more complex way, it binds to part of an enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase that is essential to ATP synthethis and prevents the reaction from occurring.
Horrifyingly, cyanide poisoning cannot be fixed by simply giving the body higher concentrations of oxygen to breathe in. It doesn’t prevent your repository system from uptaking oxygen. Instead it prevents your individual cells from using the available oxygen.
While it is sort of technically possible in the case of cyanide for the liver to produce more rhodanese (an enzyme that specifically reduces the toxic effects of cyanide in the body) the reaction is dependent on sulfur. Perhaps if you ate foods like eggs in very large quantities and also regularly ate larger amounts of cyanide you could maintain a state of immunity to doses larger than what would normally kill a person but I can’t find any evidence of someone stupid enough to test that. Regardless this immunity is in the form of getting your liver to simply clear the cyanide from your system faster and does nothing to stop the underlying cellular asphyxiation.
As an aside Arsenic which was also mentioned earlier interrupts mitochondrial function as well, but in this case it takes the place of Phosphorus (The P in ATP) and the resulting molecule is not able to react correctly. While not a perfect comparison you can think of cyanide as starving your cells of oxygen while arsenic starves them of useful fuel. Neither of these are something you can build an immunity to.
Sadly i don’t know about the immunity part. While i have dug through the depths of the internet to find out how many and which sort of seeds are required for lethal dose and even then the estimate range is huge, lovest end 10-20kg up to 100kg worth of apples and no mention of which sort. I haven’t looked into the immunity part.
In addition the seeds need to be ground up, chewing might not even be enough to break up the seeds well enough for the digestive system. Otherwise those will pass through fully intact.
Thats an old wives tale methinks. The amount ingested via apple seeds is so small that it is unlikely to generate enough response for immunologic or epigenetic adaptations to be unaffected. Even if it does result reduce effects in any sense it would likely be overwhelmed in any purposeful poisoning.
I learned top down and eat everything except the stem, but yep. 🖖🏼
He is now Horse Man in my memory
When I played Skyrim I saved all the apples I could find. I didn’t eat a single one. And I went out of my way to find or buy more all the time. When I got a house I dedicated a room for apple storage.
Oh, just remembered: I sometimes eat the peanuts with the shell on. It tastes nothing, so I don’t have a problem with it.
I saw an old guy eat the entire apple in 2018. Weirdest dam thing I’ve ever seen.
Just don’t chew on the seeds, they’re poisonous.
Maybe if you ate 20lbs of apples at once.
i always like to chew on a seed or two, it’s like the almond-flavoured treat at the end
that’s why I don’t drink the whole glass of water
Everything is poisonous in high enough quantities. It would take a lot of apples for the seeds to become an issue.
It would take around 100 apples to poison an adult human, assuming you crushed all of the seeds. It’s reccommended that you core apples if you’re juicing them and serving it to children; otherwise it’s harmelss.
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Why is it so blurry. I had to go find my glasses to only realise I’m already wearing them
Slightly different take here: why even eat the usual parts of an apple? Apples taste disgusting.
[The above opinion is subjective and applies only to me, afaik.]
I used to feel the same but I had only tried the worst kinds of apples like granny smith or red delicious.
Ambrosia, cosmic crisp, and Honeycrisp are where it’s at. If you haven’t tried those I would buy one (1) next time you’re at the grocery store and give it a try.
Try them before you brush your teeth.
Lol does that make a difference?
Something about toothpaste makes apples taste really awful.
Do you take the pips out first so an apple tree doesn’t grow in your tummy?
but do you eat a kiwi whole (skin and all)?
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I eat the whole apple if it’s small. If it’s a large apple it’s just too much apple at one time.
For me it’s in reverse, want the whole thing but forced to throw away.
