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 contain cyanide (not arsenic as people commonly think) but even if the core is eaten, the seeds are likely to pass undigested through the human system. The cyanogenic glycoside is stored in one compartment of the plant cell and an enzyme that activates it is stored in another compartment. When an insect or other animal chews the plant and crushes the compartments, the two chemicals mix, and the enzyme cleaves the cyanide from the sugar.