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    NUTRITIONIST'S NOTEBOOK Almonds

    Sep 24, 2021 4 minutes

    Almonds are one of today’s wonder foods but the fact that we can eat them is down to a random mutation that occurred several millennia ago. Thanks to that, we can enjoy their great taste and many beneficial nutrients.

    A little bit of history

    Wild almonds contain amygdalin, a substance that releases the toxin cyanide in the digestive tract and makes them taste extremely bitter. For wild almond trees, this is a self-defence mechanism. Cyanide, in a high enough dose, can kill you – for an adult, the dose is about 50 wild almonds.

    At some point in history, a natural mutation changed this – it suppressed

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