Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Prussic Acid in Peach Kernels. [ARTICLE]

Prussic Acid in Peach Kernels.

Everyone knows that it is not safe to eat many peach kernels on account of the large percentage they contain of that most deadly poison, prussic acid. Almonds also contain prussic acid, but tho good kinds havo been cultivated so as to make the percentage of the poison as •mall as possible and their shell as thin as may be.