The stems and leaves are virtually tasteless and make eating strawberries easier. They even have nutritional value!

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hopefully you spit out the seeds? They contain amygdalin, a substance that releases cyanide when it comes into contact with human digestive enzymes. A few apples worth of seeds isn’t enough to kill you or anything, and the seeds are apparently safe if you swallow them whole.

    • justhach@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m confused. You comment looks like two different people making different points lol

      Hopefully you spit out the seeds? They contain amygdalin, a substance that releases cyanide when it comes into contact with human digestive enzymes.

      A few apples worth of seeds isn’t enough to kill you or anything, and the seeds are apparently safe if you swallow them whole.

      FWIW I have eaten apples whole for years, and I have not died of cyanide poisoning yet.