Food Fair Frenzy by Abby L Vandiver

Author:Abby L Vandiver [Vandiver, Abby L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Media Web Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-08-25T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I decided to go ahead and look up the amygdalin while she finished matching them up. She was moving way too slow for me.

“Amygdalin,” I read the Wikipedia entry off my cell phone, “is a poisonous cyanogenic glycoside found in many plants, but most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricot (known as bitter almonds), peach, and plum.’” I looked up at Miss Vivee, she was still matching the flowers to the word. Mac was watching her every move.

I went back to reading and found that cyanogenic glycosides are broken down by an enzyme in the body when ingested into cyanide, glucose and benzaldehyde.

Then I found a medical reference.

“Mac,” I said getting his attention. “Listen to this,” I read the next paragraph. “It says here that ‘Since the early 1950s, both amygdalin and a modified form named laetrile have been promoted as an alternative cancer treatment.’”

Miss Vivee interrupted me. “That’s hogwash,” she said without lifting her eyes up from the page she was writing on.

“Well, this guy on here,” I looked back at my phone. “National arm wrestling champion, Jason Vale said eating apricot kernels cured him of kidney and pancreatic cancer.”

“Pfft,” Miss Vivee blew out.

I laughed and clicked off my search to look for apricot kernels. “Oh my gosh!” I said. “Amazon sells apricot seeds. Bitter Almonds. Look.” I held up my phone and Miss Vivee glanced up at it before going back to her writing. “It must not be too bad,” I continued. “Otherwise they couldn’t sell it. How does it work?” I swiped my phone to Google it.

“B17.” Miss Vivee clicked her tongue. “But there’s no such thing.”

“Yeah?” I asked. “Let’s see what this says.” I clicked back through my searches and returned to the Wikipedia article. “Where was I . . . Oh.” I found the paragraph about cancer treatment. “Okay. ‘. . . it is promoted as an alternative cancer treatment, often using the misnomer,’” I emphasized, “‘Vitamin B17.’” Miss Vivee was right. I looked up at her. She had taken out her suspect notebook and was scrawling away, paying no attention to me.

“‘But studies have found them,’” I went back to reading, “‘to be clinically ineffective in the treatment of cancer, as well as potentially toxic or lethal when taken by mouth, due to-’” I chuckled and read the last words, “‘cyanide poisoning.’”

I lifted my head as I finished reading and found Miss Vivee staring at me.

“Told you, Missy,” she said.

“Soooo,” I said putting the puzzle pieces that we had together. “You think Jack Wagner ate some kernels from . . .” I looked back at the Wikipedia page, “an apricot, peach or plum, ingested amygdalin, and then died from cyanide poisoning?”

“I don’t think that’s what happened,” Miss Vivee said tucking her notebook and pencils down in her purse. “I know it is. That’s why I added all three of them from the arboretum to my suspect list. ”

“Three of them?” I said scrunching my nose. “Who?”

“Camren Wagner. Her boyfriend, Robert Bernard-”

“Wait,” I said.

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