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28 Jul 17
09:15
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A man who suffered cyanide poisoning after eating cherry seeds has called for warnings to be put on packaging.
Matthew Crème, from Lancashire, said "curiosity" got the better of him when he decided to crack three of the seeds. However, he soon started to feel ill.
Mr Crème was eating cherries on 17 July when he cracked a seed and found another inside with "an almond texture".
"It was just curiosity and you know what they say about curiosity," he said.
"[The seed] tasted similar to an almond but with a cherry flavour to it - I didn't think nothing of it, just thought it was a seed, so I ate it and continued to eat more of it."
Within 20 minutes of eating three seeds, he felt extreme tiredness and had a headache.
Mr Crème only realised the potential for poisoning after an online search and he rang 111.
Not sure if his name or his stupidity is funnier!!!
Matthew Crème, from Lancashire, said "curiosity" got the better of him when he decided to crack three of the seeds. However, he soon started to feel ill.
Mr Crème was eating cherries on 17 July when he cracked a seed and found another inside with "an almond texture".
"It was just curiosity and you know what they say about curiosity," he said.
"[The seed] tasted similar to an almond but with a cherry flavour to it - I didn't think nothing of it, just thought it was a seed, so I ate it and continued to eat more of it."
Within 20 minutes of eating three seeds, he felt extreme tiredness and had a headache.
Mr Crème only realised the potential for poisoning after an online search and he rang 111.
Not sure if his name or his stupidity is funnier!!!
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Did someone egg him on to do this?
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He is part of a set of twins?
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He needs to wake up and smell the coffee
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He'll soon whip himself back into shape
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Was his blood clotted after this?
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Did it give him a temperature? Might of needed some ice to cool down.
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He must of been cheesed off with the media attention.
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An American expert has offered to cure him. He is flying in from Philadelphia.
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Not a good example for his kids. I'm assuming he has a son.
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Or is he single?
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Is he from Bristol?
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Pun Sc*m alert !
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He's just be voted Idiot of The Month
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He rang 111 from a payphone. Luckily he got a diagnosis before the pips.
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Bet he's Gladys Knight didn't go from bad to worse.
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Desmond the winner...... on the snaff.
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1. ENTER : PIP, CHERRY, CYANIDE, LANCASHIRE; RELATED PUN.
2. SEND REPEAT : 1 TO 2 |
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1. COPY : TV PROGRAMME, DONALD TRUMP, BREXIT, TV PROGRAMME;.
2. PASTE REPEAT : 1 TO 2 |
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Game, set and match to Crisp.
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Took the Pip
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Akabula, you are not the umpire.....you are the ball boy.
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Punning is pretty lame....it's not clever....and not very funny.
Ooooh....a word has 2 meanings.....I didn't expect that meaning.....ooooh, I feel like laughing.......ohhhhhhh ! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Hic ! |
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wouldn't you have to eat a lot of them?
i think apple seeds are similar. they say apricot kernels have anti cancer properties. |
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Apricot kernels have about 3.5 times the Amygdalin (which can produce cyanide in the body if ingested) that a cherry pit has.
. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/11/cyanide-in-fruit-seeds-how-dangerous-is-an-apple . Cyanide in fruit seeds: how dangerous is an apple? The seeds, pips and stones of many varieties of fruit contain small amounts of cyanide, so here’s your handy guide on the pips not to eat You’re highly unlikely to manage to eat enough apple seeds to poison yourself, so you can rest easy if you occasionally swallow one. Apples contain a compound called amygdalin in their seeds, which is a cyanide-and-sugar based molecule. If the seed is chewed or otherwise broken, human or animal enzymes come into contact with the amygdalin and effectively cut off the sugar part of the molecule. The remainder can then decompose to produce the poisonous gas hydrogen cyanide. Cyanide toxicity is experienced by humans at doses of around 0.5–3.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. Symptoms of cyanide poisoning include stomach cramps, headache, nausea and vomiting, and can culminate in cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, coma and death. A fatal dose for humans can be as low as 1.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. In a recent study, the amygdalin content of apple seeds was found to be approximately 3 milligrams per gram of seeds (one seed is approximately 0.7g). As not all of this mass would be converted into hydrogen cyanide (some of it will constitute the sugar part of the molecules that is cleaved off), it’s apparent that you’re going to need to eat a huge number of apple seeds to succeed in poisoning yourself, and there don’t appear to be any cases of someone having succeeded in doing so. |
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was just away looking up apricot kernels - FFS
I've been eating tons of them. Morrisons sells chilli seed mix. 75p a bag I separate out the apricot seeds by themselves as they are Fkin tasty. You probably get about 15-20 in each bag. I kept looking for whole bags of them? See them advertised on google - you can buy bags of them? Does roasting them take out the poison? |
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Raw or cooked ?
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my back felt better - i put it down to eating seeds .
omega 3 oil. maybe i was poisoning my nerves. |
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I would stop eating them for a bit
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if your fingers go numb stop?
That's the advice. |
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i even looked up Almonds,
Moses brother aaron had a staff and it budded, it grew almonds. It was one of three things that they kept with the ark of the covenant. kosher. So I was eating a lot of sweet almonds, pumpkin seeds sunflower seeds and other seeds. chilli seed mix. My back was getting better but my stomach was feeling more sore, so i dialed it all back. I haven't had seeds for a few months now. I quit because i thought the seeds might be clustering together in my gut. Called a bozar? so I talked myself out of eating seeds. healthy eating ? |
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Off to bed anyway.....got to get up early, night !
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Yes I just looked up almonds
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Bitter almonds are the ones to avoid it seems
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Night !
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eat a little of everything.
don't binge on any food? golden rule? |
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g'night.
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This thread has gone nuts
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how can they sell apricot kernels in big bags? are they roasted? or treated in some way.
raw? some sites say B17 treatment against cancer ? lack of clear info on google? |
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http://www.naturalnews.com/035554_laetrile_cancer_cure_cyanide.html
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