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How many almonds does it take to get cyanide poisoning? I was at lunch today and the conversation turned to almonds and their cyanide content. One co-worker said almonds contain a lot of cyancide and the number of almonds that can kill you surprisingly low. !Caution almonds My question is "how low"? They couldn't answer, except to say it's low. After a quick google search I found this link that says the number is 15. **FIFTEEN**!!! I've had about that many almonds today... so that can't be right. And that link is from a questionable source (google+) but I've heard this urban legend before. How many almonds will it take to kill a human? I'm looking for LD50 of a 70kg person.

With bitter almonds, 8 - 32 almonds will give you the lethal dosage of cyanide. Bitter almonds yield about 6.2 mg of cyanide per almond and the LD50 for cyanide is 50 mg - 200 mg.

This applies only to bitter wild almonds: considering that you're not dead, you most likely ate domesticated sweet almonds, which apparently do not have this problem. The sale of wild almonds may be illegal, in fact, though I can only find blogs and internet comments alluding to this.

From wikipedia

> Wild almonds are bitter, the kernel produces deadly cyanide upon mechanical handling, and eating even a few dozen at one sitting can be fatal.

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> While wild almond species are toxic, domesticated almonds are not;

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