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Hell, since we are talkng about concentration effects (water, oxygen) when was the last time you stood in front a of an operational Nautilus laser system and lived? If only England admitted to the presence of BSE, how do you know other have it? Furthermore, BSE isnt in the food chain to the...

2/3 figure is a bit high - it is used in savoury processed food and in some asian food. It imparts the flavour umami or savouryness, by (as you say) directly stimulating the receptors that react to that flavour.

Cyanide in banana peels? I haven't heard that one - it certainly occurs in apricot pits - and i think other related species including almonds - which is why you shouldnt eat too many of them raw. There is a joke in biotech circles that if potatoes were submitted for approval as a genetically...