Micro Wave: How 'Bout Dem Apple...Seeds

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Many folks eat an apple and then throw out the core. It turns out, the core is perfectly ok to eat - despite apple seeds' association with the poison cyanide. In today's episode, host Maddie Sofia talks to producer Thomas Lu about how apple seeds could potentially be toxic to humans but why, ultimately, most people don't have to worry about eating the whole apple. And they go through some listener mail.

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0:00.0	Mattie Sifai here with MPR shortwave producer Thomas Lou.
0:11.9	Hi Thomas.
0:12.9	I'm back Mattie.
0:14.9	Howdy howdy.
0:15.9	Welcome back Thomas.
0:16.9	You are here with a microwave for us a short bite size fact-filled episode ending with
0:22.3	some lovely listener mail.
0:24.4	So what do you got Thomas?
0:26.0	Okay well you know how they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
0:30.9	I'm familiar with the phrase yes.
0:32.8	I can't say that I had an apple every single day growing up but I did start doing something
0:38.6	as a kid to um maybe compensate a little for all my missed apple days.
0:43.6	Okay go on.
0:44.8	You see many people eat their apples by biting around the core or cutting it up into
0:50.1	little tiny pieces and slices and then tossing out the core.
0:54.6	You have yes you have described how people eat apples now Thomas.
0:58.8	But that sounds like a lot of work just to keep the doctor away so I started eating the
1:04.6	entire apple.
1:05.6	Like when you eat the entire apple like the core like the seeds core and all and I have plenty
1:12.2	of company.
1:13.2	Do you?
1:14.2	Oh yeah yeah totally many folks I know also do this at its core okay.
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