Grew up on a farm and I must have ate a ton of apple seeds growing up as well as green potatoes and never had a problem along with a host of other things. I wonder how many tons of each you need to eat before you actually get sick or else I have a iron stomach.

It is my understanding that apple seeds contain arsenic or something that is used to create arsenic.

I'm surprised about the tomato leaves. I ate a tomato leaf once, and I don't recall anything unusual happening to me.

Apple seeds are toxic ONLY when eaten in LARGE quantities. They contain small quantities of a compound similar to cyanide, and there's some speculation THIS is quite similar to what scientists were trying to isolate in the long-debated failed anti-cancer drug Laetril.

At any rate, I've been eating THE ENTIRE APPLE (except for the stem), since I was 8 years old, and I'm 50 now, and I've NEVER suffered any ill health effects from it. Were I to save up the seeds from 100 apples and eat them all at once, it might kill me, but there's actually a school of thought that eating them simply WITH the apple might put just enough of that natural poison in our bodies to keep nasties like cancer at bay, as I've yet to have ANY HINT of any cancer.

I don't know. I just DO know that eating the WHOLE APPLE will NOT make you sick OR kill you.
Jeff Hayes
Spartanburg, SC

I am not sure about the apple seeds being poisonous, I knew a guy who used to eat the whole apple, core, seeds and all, and not suffer any ill effects. I ate the whole apple once just to see what it was like and didn't notice any problems in doing so. Perhaps if you ate as many seeds as you would pumpkin seeds you may suffer from some illness, but I can't imagine having any reaction by eating the seeds of just one apple.

Bay leaves are poisonous if eaten. That's why recipes always say to remove the leaves after cooking a dish.

My husband eats the seeds. As a matter of fact, he eats the entire apple except for the stem. He's done this for YEARS, and it doesn't affect him. So if the seeds are poisonous, how is he able to do this? (He sees his doctor regularly, but that's for stuff that runs in the family...and none of them eat apple seeds)