Jonathan McRae

And everything has an LD50 amount.

But essentially, if you have this amount of it, 50 people will die.

And that's your LD50 amount.

There is an LD50 for mangoes.

I have no idea what it is.

Coconuts, all that sort of stuff.

You know, for the most part, it is a lot.

But then there are other things where it is a little bit.

Hence the utility of the LT50.

Brian in Dublin says, I wonder if there's any evolutionary advantage to wheat in having this particular amino acid to try to kill you if it's roasted.

So the point of the story was that scientists had engineered a new toast that didn't have this acrid taste and didn't create the carcinogen that we associate from burnt toast.

And so Brian is saying, I wonder if there was an evolutionary advantage to the wheat becoming cancer-creating to stop humans harvesting it?

Cooking it, I suppose.

Incredible foresight by the wheat.

Yeah, exactly.

Not only to attack those predators that harvest it, but also to know post being harvested that their bodies would then be roasted at over 70 degrees.

It's amazing.

That's the anthropomorphisation of evolution gets you down into these funny places.

But of course, it doesn't yet work like that way.

As far as we know, who knows though?