The plums are appreciated for their pleasant bittersweet flavor, their tender flesh and juice. Both large and small berries of the South have a hard bone inside, which in a too mature fruit can open, revealing a light yellow nucleus, similar to the nut of an almond. Everyone knows that it can harm, but few know that this almond also has positive properties.
Can I eat plum pepitas?
Pugglet Pepitas, due to their thick and very hard peel, are not used as a delicacy, which cannot be said of their almond. They have a pleasantly acidic flavor, similar to that of almonds.
For centuries, plum grains are crushed and pressed cold to obtain oil, which is used in pastry, diverse liquors, cold dressings for vegetable salads and hot meat dishes thanks to its bright flavor and aroma.
Note: plum bone oil is widely used in cosmetics: in hair and skin care products, and crushed solid shell is used in exfoliants.
Useful Properties of plum seeds
The plum bone is a combination of beneficial organic acids that normalize the work of many human body systems.
Its consumption in small quantities
- Improves memory, vision, sleep quality, stress resistance
- stimulates appetite
- normalizes the function of the gastrointestinal tract
- It has a preventive effect on blood vessels by eliminating the plates that are formed as a consequence of high cholesterol in the blood.
- It restores the water-exit balance.
- Recover normal blood pressure.
- Reduce hydrochloric acid content in the stomach.
- Strengthen immune and nervous systems.
Organic fatty acids positively influence the human organism:
Harmful properties of plum bone
In addition to the positive properties, plum bones also have a harmful property, which resides in the presence of a substance, the tonsil (almond in Latin). It is a derivative of hydrogen cyanide (cyanhydric acid).
Once in the stomach, the tonsiline interacts with hydrochloric acid to form cyanhydric acid. The consumption of large amounts of grains can cause intoxication, whose symptoms include
- Vomiting
- Bright pink color on the skin
- sore throat
- profuse salivation
- Gastrointestinal tract malfunction, the central nervous system and the respiratory system
- Difficulty talking
- difficulty breathing
- blurred consciousness
- Important Pupil Dilation
- Extremities cramps
- Involuntary Evacuation of urine and feces
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Information: In case of poisoning, request qualified medical assistance, improve fresh air access, rinse the stomach with 1-1. 5 liters of warm water.
In cases where plum grains are in jam or compote, if stored for a long time (more than a year), the tonsil can pass directly to the liquid. During thermal treatment, this substance decomposes completely and has no harmful effects for the body.
Cyanhydric acid in plum bones
Cyanhydric acid, or cyanobutyric acid, is synthesized in the body after the ingestion of the tonsiling substance. Cyanogen is an organic acid with a smell of bitter almond. It is found in some plants, in the smoke of tobacco and in the gas of the coke furnaces. It mixes well with the water. It causes the lack of oxygen in the tissues. It affects nervous, circulatory and respiratory systems.
The content of cyanhydric acid in plum bones is 0. 96%. The dose that can cause severe or deadly poisoning is less than 1 mg/kg or 50-60 grams of grains. The consumption of plum bones is good for people of all ages, but in small quantities. Children can eat 2-3 grains at the same time, adults (20-55 years) -5-6 units, older people (from 55 years)-3-4 units.
The components that contain many diseases (such as diabetes, arthritis, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, Alzheimer’s), improve the functioning of many body systems and accelerate metabolism. Nature does not tolerate excesses or emptiness. And if you have created a bone in a plum with a nucleus full of various chemical substances, it means that they are necessary. You just have to know exactly how much consume.
