The History Of The Watergate Salad. There are dozens of stories about the history of the Watergate Salad floating around the web. We asked our archivist at Kraft headquarters in Northfield, Illinois to tell us the real story of the history of the Watergate Salad, and hereâs what she had to say.
These common seed pods are easily recognized such as the tomato, the apple, corn and more. With the thousands of plants and vegetables creating seed pods of lesser known varieties, the identification of the pods can be an extensive enterprise unless the plant, flower and pods are readily available for matching.
Apple seeds do not contain cyanide. Not per se anyway. What they contain is a cyanogenic glucoside called amygdalin, which can be broken by the combined work of a couple different enzymes natural to the human gut into glucose (sugar), benzaldehyde (a compound that smells like almonds) and cyanide.