An apricot kernel is a single seed found inside the stone of an apricot. Billed as a new “superfood,” some people believe that apricot kernels have cancer-fighting and detox-enhancing properties.

Apricot seeds are all over the internet - marketed as cancer fighters. But the seeds contain a chemical compound that, when ingested in high quantities (and by high we mean several seeds), can cause ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Queens mother and son are facing fraud charges after selling a toxic product online that they claimed could cure cancer. Investigators say drums of hazardous materials were ...

Cancer cure quack Jason Vale is in another apricot jam. Vale, a professional arm wrestler already imprisoned once for selling apricot seeds as a cure for cancer, was arrested with his mother in a ...

An ex-champion arm wrestler from Queens who’s done time for peddling apricot seeds as a cancer cure was busted again Wednesday — after prosecutors said he was up to his old tricks. Jason Vale, 51, was ...

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A Queens man was convicted of contempt of court yesterday for selling apricot pits as a cancer cure after a federal judge told him to stop – and was sent immediately to prison after the feds learned ...

A naturally-occurring compound called amygdalin is present in apricot kernels and converts to cyanide after eating. Cyanide poisoning can cause nausea, fever, headaches, insomnia, thirst, lethargy, ...