Yeah, well unfortunately this was a top Google result.
(Worry about the issue, not the sell by date)
What issue?
A cursory examination of the posts reveals most posters already pointed out the safety of juicing whole apples, including the final post before you revived this dead thread.
I ate too many seeds and am now a zombie contributing to one.
Seriously, cyanide does not accumulate in the body and is quickly metabolized. I believe there are processes in the body that produce cyanide in small quantities and the body has efficient mechanisms to get rid of it. As I said in the original, I eat the whole apple although I try to avoid crunching the seeds, which are then eliminated undigested.
Apple seeds, don’t actually contain cyanide. What they, and many other seeds contain, is something called amygdalin, which, when metabolized, produces cyanide.
Ever hear of “laetrile”, an alleged cancer cure from many years ago? It’s based on amygdalin; and though its safety and effectiveness as a cancer treatment has been thoroughly disproven, there remains a solid community of crackpots who continue to advocate its use for this purpose.
Many years ago, there was a very prolific and aggressive spammer who promoted a variety of amygdalin- and laetrile-based cancer remedies. A significant feud arose between him and myself. I got him kicked off of one ISP after another, after another, and he once successfully got me temporarily kicked off of AOL by “joe-jobbing”me—sending out a massive spam run crafted to look like I was responsible for it.
I also reported him repeatedly to the FDA, the FTC, and other appropriate government agencies, in connection with his phony cancer treatments. This was the result of that. I never heard anything from or of him again, after he got out of prison.
Ridiculous.
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Amygdalin isn’t very soluble in water (i.e. the main component of apple juice) at cold or ambient temperatures, so juicing or pressing pulped apples including their seeds is quite safe.
To reiterate comments above - were this not so, people would be dropping like flies, because the seeds are not removed from the apple pulp when pressing juice commercially (or indeed on most smaller scales either).
As it happens, I built myself a cider press last week and tested it on the weekend - the pulp in the fourth and third images from the bottom on that page is just shredded whole apples (skin, flesh, seeds and stalks) - the pressing process itself inherently filters out the solids, including the seeds.
People have been pressing apples this way for centuries, without dying.
I eat apple seeds as a snack. I’m building up a resistance.
Smart. You never know when you will have to go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.