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denny:
I believe this was addressed in a past issue of Zymurgy.  IIRC, the bottom line was not a good idea.


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majorvices:
The pits or the plumb wine?  ???

denny:
The pits.

And it's "plum" wine, unless it's perfectly vertical.  ;)


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morticaixavier:

--- Quote from: Joe Sr. on June 08, 2012, 08:17:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: morticaixavier on June 08, 2012, 07:47:54 AM ---I don't know about plum pits but apricot pits are edible.

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Apricot pits also contain cyanide (technically a pre-cursor that becomes cyanide when metabolized).

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

Perhaps eating the occasional pit is fine, but I wouldn't recommend doing anything with them in quantity.  Unless you've got darker motives.

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huh,

so after a little further research, there are sweet apricot kernals which do not contain the cyanide precursor which are the tastiest ones, just as bitter almonds contain the precursor but sweet almonds do not (almonds are a stone fruit kernal).

However according to this article that precursor is non-toxic and, in fact is vitamin B17 which is a valuable anti-cancer agent.

http://www.anticancerinfo.co.uk/apricot_kernels.html

majorvices:

--- Quote from: denny on June 08, 2012, 10:03:36 AM ---The pits.

And it's "plum" wine, unless it's perfectly vertical.  ;)


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Plum eh? Who'd. Thunk it? ::) ;D

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