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What Poison from castor oil beans?

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Ricin

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What is the poison from castor oil?
Castor Oil toxin. The poisonous substance in castor oil is ricin, a protein that causes death at cellular level, and can be fatal. See the link below.
How you make castor oil from castor beans in home?
You can't.
What are Castor beans?
The "bean" is the seed, however it is not really a bean. In this seed, there is ricin, a deadly toxin. The lethal dose for adults is 4 to 8 seeds, however reports of poisoning are relatively rare....
Is soy bean oil vegatable oil?
Soy bean oil is a variety of vegetable oil.
Can castor oil can be used as a cooking oil?
NO!! It burns too easily and you could never control how much you were eating. You could cause several bowel problems.