Is It SAFE to Eat Avocado Seeds?

[Kai--]

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Hi all! 👋 ☺️

Anyone with experience ingesting AVOCADO SEEDS/ PITS 🥑, do you know of the safety of consuming such seeds 🌰 🌰 ?

[I’m aware of several ways to prepare & consume them ( google.com/search?as_q=eati... ) , my concern is their safety in ingesting them.]

Is it SAFE to eat avocado seeds? 🤔 💭❓

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I’ve poked around Internet (via Google search 🔎 ) for the usual WFPB (Whole Food Plant-Based) leaders that I listen to (Michael Greger, Dean Ornish, Neal Barnard, T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, John McDougall, Michael Klaper, Joel Fuhrman, et. al.) yet nothing is jumping out at me (from any of them) as ‘mentioning eating avocado 🥑 pits’ or ‘safety in eating the pits’ . . . 🤔

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(Lots of divergent opinions of pros & cons from various other sources though — but none of them from my usual "go-to, reliable" sources. 🙃 )

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Do you have any luck or any insight into finding answers about the safety of ingesting avocado pits from your "go-to, reliable" WFPB sources? 🤔

If so, would you mind sharing links to their information?

Thank you in advance, kind sharer. 🙏 😌

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Much appreciated,

Kai

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Oh, I’d accumulated a nice mound of avocado pits, ready to prepare . . .

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. . . until the question of the safety of ingesting them came up! 😳 😬 🙃

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Oh . . . for clarity, I’m not seeking ‘debates/ arguments’ about people’s "opinions" about pros & cons of eating avocado seeds . . . 😳 🙃 😂

I’m merely looking for sources/ references/ links to the views of recognised ‘experts’ from the WFPB community. 😌

[My bumbling search 🔎 efforts are coming up empty handed ✋🤚. I’d greatly appreciate your ‘search 🕵️‍♀️ 🔎 savvy’! Thank you kindly in advance for your time. 🙏 😌 ]

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[Have also posted this query at ‘Healthy Eating’ forum: healthunlocked.com/healthye... ]

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[Agoodenough]

Hi,

It’s full of toxins as far as I’m aware. It won’t kill you but why would you want to eat an avocado seed when there are so many foods to eat? (Avocado flesh is incredibly nutritious).

This is what it says on line so I suppose it’s just up to personal taste 🙂

The California Avocado Society recommends against eating the seeds—although they do encourage you to eat the fruit. Eating an avocado seed will not kill you, but you should think twice considering the number of toxins in it. Like many seeds, avocado pits contain a small amount of cyanide complexed to larger molecules.6 Mar 2018

Ali 🙂🌱

[Kai-- in reply to Agoodenough]

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Thank you kindly, Agoodenough/ Ali. 🙏 😌

Do you have favourite WFPB leaders/‘experts’ that you follow too? 🤔

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[Kai-- in reply to Agoodenough]

Oh . . . If interested, Agoodenough/ Ali, . . . Hidden has also found an interesting reference to Nutritional and antinutritional compositions of processed Avocado (Persea americana Mill) seeds ( imedpub.com/articles/nutrit... ) (from Pelagia Research Library) at ‘Healthy Eating’ forum ( healthunlocked.com/healthye... ). 👍👍

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[Agoodenough in reply to Kai--]

Ok Thank you Kai. I’ll have a look. Ali 🙂🌱

[Kai-- in reply to Agoodenough]

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