Weird. I eat it because it tastes good, like the rest of the apple, and I like the texture of the pips.
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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"
I eat the entire apple. Learned to do it so I simultaneously wouldnt litter on hikes and also wouldn't have to carry a slimy apple core in my backpack. Then i got used to it and started doing it all the time. Why not? Free apple.
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I simultaneously wouldnt litter on hikes
That seems overly strict. I assume you're not eating apple after apple for the amygdalin to do any harm, but then I also don't assume you're eating apple after apple for you to do any harm by just chucking it (without the sticker) somewhere out-of-the-way. I eat so closely to the core that people think it's weird, but the core itself is physically uncomfortable to eat.
Depends on the environment. In some places you can throw an apple core and it will be gone in a week. In some places it can take years.
It all depends on the local environment and ecosystem
In some places it can take years.
Got any examples handy?
Anywhere with lower animal or microbial activity.
The Rocky Mountains are a good example. Cold, dry, and a high elevation (reduced oxygen). You are told in those places explicitly to pack out everything because it won't decomposes.
Desert environments can also have the same issues just due to the dryness.
Here's an article
according to the Facebook post from Glacier National Park. "Some fruit products can take years to decompose depending on the environment they are in!"
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The truck i learned is to eat the apple from the top down, working your way through the core of less of it into a bite and makes it much less offensive, plus you don't have to finish your apple snack by eating the 'trash' last
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Litter...food that literally grows on trees?
Scattering non-native seeds is a shit habit.
No way seeds from a domesticated apple are just gonna start growing in a random forest though.
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Poop is also natural, but if everyone pooped along natural hiking trails, it would be a shit show. Established hiking trails tend to have many people walking on them each day, and disposing of waste along them - even organic waste - can have negative impacts on others experiences, as well as change local wildlife's foraging patterns. Just because it is organic matter doesnt mean it decomposes instantly - that apple core or orange peel could be there for weeks or months after you leave it.
Pack it in, pack it out.
**depending on area
Some places you have to pack your poop out. Many places a hole is acceptable for poop.
In terms of apple cores though, it's not much effort to pack that out. When it come to poop look-up the local rules
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I haven't tested it, but by now you should have built up an immunity to poison since apple seeds contain small amounts of cyanide. Or maybe it was arsenic. One of those... I'd have to look it up. But now you don't have to worry about someone poisoning you.
You can't get immune to cyanide ever
But iocane powder on the other hand...
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Pretty sure arsenic will build up in your system over time though
It is cyanide. But (1) cyanide does not accumulate in the tissues over time. If you were to have a constant small drip of cyanide injected into your veins, as long as your body could dispose of it at the same rate that you recieved it, you wouldn’t die. Ie, you arent going to see gradual onset cyanide poisoning over years of eating apple seeds. And (2) apple seeds contain a compound that makes cyanide when it is digested. But the compound is inside the apple seeds. So unless you are really focused on grinding the seeds to a paste, you won’t actually have the compound reach your digestive system. It will stay contained within the hard shell of the seed, and you’ll just poop out the whole seed. Which is kind of the whole point of fruit-bearing plants in the first place. The plant wants animals to eat its fruit, then walk away with its seeds in their bellies. Then they poop out the seeds somewhere else, spreading the plant’s lineage geographically, and providing the seed with some good fertilizer to boot. The seeds, and the dangerous compound inside them, don’t just haphazardly pass through your digestive system - they are specifically designed to pass through animal digestive systems unharmed. And (3) the amount of cyanide you can get from apple seeds is quite small. Unless you are actively, like, making apple seed paste and eating it in bulk, you'll be fine.
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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.
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For me it's in reverse, want the whole thing but forced to throw away.
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.
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Sure it wasn't Apple Boy? 🤔
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.
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.
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Just don't chew on the seeds, they're poisonous.
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.
Everything is poisonous in high enough quantities. It would take a lot of apples for the seeds to become an issue.
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
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