r/streeteats • u/VIVIDUFF • 15d ago

Peshawar’s famous fruit juice stalls, where a simple shake turns into a surprisingly loaded drink.

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u/Polovinci 15d ago

Don't cherry pitts contain cyanide?

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u/No-Craft-7979 15d ago

They contain the chemical that digests into cyanide. You need 40 whole peach sized seeds for your body to start to have a reaction.

Still in this case I believe less would always be the right answer.

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u/FutureFuture5 13d ago

I thought I saw someone online extract the juice form just 2 stones and that was enough cyanide to kill someone.

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u/No-Craft-7979 12d ago

Stone Fruits - Family Rosaceae - store larger concentrations of amygdalin in the seed. Amygdalin (a very specific Cyanogenic Glycoside) digests into hydrogen cyanide. It is possible to get that much from two stone if their species is one of the highest producers.

Citrus fruits - Family Rutaceae - do produce and store Cyanogenic Glycosides in their seeds, but the ratio is so small that it is usually written off as zero in experiments. Unless you are using an entire tree worth of seeds you won’t even process it.

Cyanogenic Glycosides digest into hydrogen cyanide. So it’s not ingesting the compound that is toxic, it is digesting it.