The seeds of the pawpaw fruit contain a neurotoxin that can cause severe illness or death. — Whalespan
The seeds of the pawpaw fruit contain a neurotoxin that can cause severe illness or death.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“the seeds have a powerful neurotoxin and if you if you eat the fruit and you nick the seed and you get some of that seed at best you'll be vomiting vomiting and diarrhea for two or three hours — at worst it can actually cause death and people die every year from this”