Deadly Sloes? Help!

 Ihave just read on the Plants for a Future site that sloes contain hydrogen
cyanide
(particularly the seeds).

We have made sloe liqueur for several years now but this year we decided to try
one bottle
where we put the sloes into a blender, instead of pricking them.

Will the resultant liqueur be poisonous?

 arlev@REMOVEbtinternet.com says...

cyanide

  So do plum, cherry, peach and almond kernels and apple pips

try one bottle

   No more deadly than cider, plum and peach brandy, amaretto and jam.

   Janet.

 

cyanide

try one bottle

Even if the seeds are damaged? I know that the above fruits have the same in
their stones
but they are very hard and don't get damaged.

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 wrote:


cyanide

try one bottle

their stones

I would be very cautious. I have it in my mind that about a cup-full
of say peach or apricot kernels contain enough cyanide (actually
amygdalin, a compound containing cyanide) to be fatal. If your sloe
stones were broken open and the kernels exposed and chopped up, then
the cyanide they contain will be leached out into the gin (amygdalin
is extracted from ground almond or apricot kernels using ethanol).
Whether there would be enough to kill you in a single tot, I've no
idea, but it would be tragic if you found out the hard way.

--
 
Chris

Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales

 
Chris Hogg;937660 Wrote:

My late mother used to put apricot kernels in her home-made apricot jam.
They were the best bit. Though it is illegal to apricot kernels for
human consumption.


Remember, you can kill yourself by drinking a whole bottle of gin in a
hurry, also a few spoonsful of salt.




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echinosum