<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nLike all foods, swallowing a cherry pit is going to make it go through your throat to find its way to the stomach. This is not the same with some fruits; cherry pits cannot be digested and will go through your system straight ahead while keeping their original form, as per the National Capital Poison Center (NCPC).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>
Should I worry if I swallowed a cherry pit?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe consumption of cherry pits whole is unlikely to be toxic if they are eaten whole.<\/strong> The holes, however, produce hydrogen cyanide when you chew them, which can cause serious health problems. An accident in which one or more pits are accidentally chewed and swallowed can cause several symptoms, including headaches, seizures, and breathing difficulties.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>
Does it hurt to pass a cherry pit?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSeveral reasons make it unlikely that you will be hurt by swallowing small amounts of pits unintentionally, which is stated by Poison Control. First, humans aren’t prone to crushing or chewing stones to release the chemical (called amygdalin), especially when they accidentally swallow them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Long Does It Take To Pass A Cherry Pit It takes about 2 days for a cherry pit to pass through your digestive system. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107614,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/107614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}