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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    From /r/theydidthemath, six years ago:

    solpyro

    An MSDS from naturalsourcing.com for “olive oil grade a” gives an LD50 of >2000mg/kg. (I couldn’t copy the link on mobile, sorry)

    An average human is around 62kg (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight) and they would need to ingest over 124g.

    Olive oil has a density of .918g/cm³ (https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/IngaDorfman.shtml) making this dose about 114ml.

    …which, I’m going to be honest, seems low.

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      3 months ago

      That doesn’t sound right. 124ml of olive oil will probably do funny things to your shit and make you feel weird, but I very much doubt it’ll kill you unless you inject it straight into your aorta.

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      3 months ago

      It’s “>2000mg/kg”

      To me, this says that they didn’t bother testing any doses higher than that. So, who knows how much you really need to ingest to see an effect. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      That value also seems pretty reasonable, since who would replace the milk of their morning cereal with olive oil.