claim: Vitamin B17 “was banned by the US because of its cancer-killing properties”
evidence: - Health "Vitamin B17" is neither a vitamin nor a cancer treatment and can cause cyanide poisoning [...] Factually inaccurate: The so-called "vitamin B17" is actually amygdalin, a compound that isn’t a vitamin and which decades of research have shown to be ineffective as a cancer treatment. [...] On 1 March 2023, a Facebook reel with more than 1.6 million views claimed that "Vitamin B17", a compound present in apricot kernels, "was banned by the U.S. because of its cancer-killing properties".