From my favorite source for questionable information, wikipedia: [almonds]"The fruit of the wild forms contains the glycoside amygdalin, "which becomes transformed into deadly prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) after crushing, chewing, or any other injury to the seed."[5] (^ a b c Zohary, Daniel; Maria Hopf (2000). Domestication of plants in the old world: the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley. Oxford University Press. pp. 186. ISBN 0-19-850356-3.)
Also, that just makes uni even nastier than I thought it was. A friend of mine described uni as "this must be what raw sewage tastes like". I agree, but am not willing to test that hypothesis.
On a tangent... when I was keeping coral, pretty much every species of coral I had (even the primarily photosynthetic ones) would go apeshit when I'd put a little uni into the water. Apparently coral dig the taste of poo, but somehow I'm not surprised.
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Date: 2010-04-13 06:34 pm (UTC)Also, that just makes uni even nastier than I thought it was. A friend of mine described uni as "this must be what raw sewage tastes like". I agree, but am not willing to test that hypothesis.
On a tangent... when I was keeping coral, pretty much every species of coral I had (even the primarily photosynthetic ones) would go apeshit when I'd put a little uni into the water. Apparently coral dig the taste of poo, but somehow I'm not surprised.