Reply To: I ate a plum seed and now I’m scared

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Hiya, It is important not to try and look too deeply into things like this.  Over the years, we will have eaten literally millions of apple cores, and apparently, apple pips contain certain nasty stuff, but it isn’t enough to harm  us, and anyway, a plum stone would have to be totally crushed to gain access to anything inside. These things just pass through us in their own time. In parallel to this, our air contains a heck of a lot of nitrogen, but our bodies only process the oxygen and Carbon dioxide.  The air is absolutely buzzing with bluetooth signals, mobile phone signals, radio signals, absolutely loaded, and yet it does us no major harm.

As a child, did you ever have to eat prunes? I doubt if we’ve ever met anyone who ‘hasn’t’ swallowed a stone or pip or two or many…  Statistically, we survive these instances, with no lasting effect or discomfort…

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