Do almonds contain arsenic

Answer 1

They along with numerous foods do contain trace amounts of a variety of harmful chemicals almonds are associated with cyanide(sp). There are 2 different types of Almonds, sweet and bitter. Sweet almonds are your common ones used in cooking or processed for oils, Bitter almonds are also used in cooking but must first be processed. It is these bitter almonds which are know to have a toxic amount of prussic acid (prussic acid can be refined into cyanide.) If you were to eat bitter almonds that had not yet been processed (prussic acid leached out) it could be fatal. A hand full would do the trick. =================================================== Nuts from a wild variety of the domesticated almonds tree, growing in some of the Eastern Mediterranean area (Western Asia), does contain Glycoside Amygdalin, a chemical, which could became Hydrogen cyanide (or Prussic acid), if the nuts got crushed (or chewed). Domesticated (sweet) almond does not contain this chemical.