Rex Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Nature's Own "Magic Pink Pill"
Papaya is a peach-like tropical fruit, valued for its powerful digestive enzyme called papain. Most health food stores sell papaya in convenient sliced and bottled form. The enzyme is also available in delicious chewable tablets at health stores everywhere. Papaya has proved invaluable in cases of feeble digestion, gas, heartburn, diarrhea, and the incomplete digestion of foods known as drop syndrome. It is especially valuable for those who have trouble digesting meat, eggs and protein. It is so powerful, its extract is used as a meat tenderized.
J.P. |
John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  For the timid and truly reluctant who are afraid to tiy a few drops of habanero juice in their regular vegetable or tropical fruit juices, this is the next best thing to culinary sky diving.
Pimento. This chile is scarlet, almost heart shaped, tapers to a point and measures about four inches long and up to three inches in diameter. It is fleshy and wonderfully sweet and aromatic and varies in strength from very mild to slightly hot. It is most commonly used in its powdered form called paprika, the best of which is still imported from Hungary. | | This kept their "sweet tooths" satisfied; but so as not to lose the combustion action then in progress on the remainder of their fat, I instructed them to juice mere slivers of the habanero or its half-pint cousin, the jalapeno in with their tropical fruit juices. They were encouraged to wear rubber gloves when working with these atom bomb peppers so as not to injure their skin.
In the meantime they pursued a more reasonable coarse in their eating habits, although I encouraged them to snack frequently throughout the day on fresh vegetables, seeds, plain popcorn, nuts, berries, and grapes. | | Several tropical fruit juices are rich in specific enzymes: pineapple, which contains bromelain; and papaya, which contains papain. Both are extremely useful in the digestive tract to help break down animal and plant proteins, as well as perform certain pain-relieving functions within the body. In different parts of the text, I've reminded readers to never mix fruit and vegetable juices together, because they are generally incompatible with each other in terms of digestion. | | By adding some fresh grated ginger or nutmeg to a papaya-guava- mango mix or any of them separately, you'll discover for yourself just how exotic spices like these can make such tropical fruit juices taste.
Also keep in mind that a Vita-Mix engages in "puree juicing," which means that in many instances you will have to add a little extra water in order to dilute things so they're easier to drink. Additionally, you may want to still "count the calories" if you're worried about an expansion of waist girth. |
Annemarie Colbin
See book keywords and concepts |  Cooking tropical fruit may push their energy just over the brink of expansion into contracted limpness. Accordingly, cooler-climate fruits such as apples and pears take to cooking much better than papayas and pineapples; countless variations on baked apples, apple pies, and pear tarts are witness to that fact.
Chilling fruit, on the other hand, will increase its ability to cool the body; this may be desirable in the sweltering summer heat, but less so in winter. | | Thus a tropical fruit connects us with the tropics: eating pineapples in New York in the winter would prepare us for sun and heat by cooling us off, thereby creating the desire to take a trip to Hawaii. Many a conscientious fruitarian has found our Northern winters extremely hard to take.
The most obvious variables that affect the energy fields of foodstuffs (and hence those of people who consume the foodstuffs) are fragmentation, temperature, methods of preservation, chemical additives, and irradiation. Let's take a look at each of these. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Whip until thoroughly blended.
• tropical fruit salad: one sliced papaya, I cup pineapple chunks, 3 tablespoons mandarin orange slices (canned and drained), '/3 cup sliced avocado, I tablespoon orange zest, and
2 tablespoons low-fat bottled lime salad dressing. Serve with Ui cup nonfat cottage cheese.
• One Thai Wrap*
• Veggie sandwich: Romaine, red cabbage, radicchio, cucumber plum tomato slices, and grated carrots with hummus tahini dressing stuffed into a whole wheat pocket bread. |
Thomas Bartram
See book keywords and concepts |  Papain, an enzyme in the tropical fruit, attacks progesterone, the hormone essential to pregnancy.
EMOLLIENT. A herb, usually mucilaginous, which has a protective and soothing action upon the surface of the body. A demulcent has a similar action but on internal surfaces (mucous membranes), Almond oil, Balm of Gilead, Borage, Chickweed. Comfrey. Elecampane, Fenugreek seeds. Iceland Moss, Irish Moss, Linseed oil. Lungwort, Marshmallow, Mullein, Oatmeal, Peanut oil, Plantain, Sesame Seed oil. Soya oil, Slippery Elm bark, Wheatgerm oil. Used in creams, lotions and poultices.
EMOTIONAL ILLNESS. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Calories: 35
Reported health benefits: This delicious, exotic tropical fruit contains so many vitamins and minerals that it should be a great help in maintaining good health for those lucky people able to obtain it.
Preparation: It may be eaten raw or cut and sliced into portions for a fruit and/or vegetable salad.
Botanical information: The fruit of an evergreen tree, Ceratonia siliqua, indigenous in the Mediterranean region.
Nutritive values: Carob is an excellent, well-balanced food, rich in Vitamins A and B-complex. |
Christian Ratsch
See book keywords and concepts |  An aqueous extract of the fresh leaves has fungicidal effects (Arvigo and Balick 1994,121*).
The tropical fruit tree Psidium guajava has leaves that produce narcotic effects.
282 The crategolic acid that has been found in the leaves is also found in clove (Syzygium aromaticum; cf. essential oils) and appears to be at least partially responsible for the analgesic effects (Brieskorn et al. 1975).
283 Quercetin (= cyanidanol, cyanidenolen 1522, 3,3',4',5,7-pentahydroxyflavone, meletin, sophorin, ericin) is very common in the plant kingdom, especially in the bark of trees. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  If the tropical fruit worked on boxers' bruises, would you be interested?
Two physicians I respect—Melvyn Werbach, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, and naturopath Michael Murray, N.D., co-authors of Botanical Influences on Illness—both seem impressed by an old study on bromelain, a protein-digesting (proteolytic) enzyme in pineapple, for treating bruises. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | Momordica charantia
Bitter melon, also known as balsam pear, is a tropical fruit widely cultivated in Asia, Africa and South America. A green cucumber-shaped fruit covered with gourd-like bumps, bitter melon looks like an ugly cucumber. In addition to the unripe fruit being eaten as a vegetable, bitter melon has been used extensively in folk medicine as a remedy for diabetes. The blood sugar-lowering action of the fresh juice or extract of the unripe fruit has been clearly established in human clinical trials as well as experimental models. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts |  It is then ready to eat—or it may be refrigerated for up to a week.
See tropical fruit.
PASTA
We're living in an age of pasta. It's quick to prepare, nutritious, and readily digestible. While wheat—both whole wheat and refined—is the most common pasta ingredient in the West, in Asia pasta is also made from buckwheat, mung beans, potatoes, rice flour, and jinengo.
Health Benefits Pasta is as nutritious as the ingredients from which it is made—almost. Almost, that is, because it is made from flour and therefore lacks the vitality that whole, intact, unground grains impart. | | Upon ripening, it may split at the stem end.
See tropical fruit.
Atole See Pinole. Aubergine See Eggplant. Avellan See Hazelnut.
AVOCADO
Superbowl Sunday is the third biggest food day for supermarkets (after Christmas and Thanksgiving), and the day that avocado sales peak. It seems that slathering chips with the avocado dip, guacamole, is a way TV viewers participate in this national ritual. Although technically a fruit and chemically more like a nut, the avocado is commonly used as a vegetable—a creamy, sensory vegetable. | | See Plantain; tropical fruit.
BANANA SQUASH
(Cucurbita maxima)
After several decades of avoiding banana squash, I happened upon a beautiful one at my local organic squash dealer and gave it another chance. Unfortunately, no matter how I prepared it, it lacked flavor and ended up in my chicken yard, -not on my table. No wonder some people have a poor opinion of squash.
The banana squash is like a banana in shape, with muted orange skin and slightly stringy, attractive orange flesh. It grows up to two feet in length and is about six inches in diameter.
See Winter Squash. | | Reducing sugar, soft drinks, fruit juice, and tropical fruit consumption often ameliorates such problems.
On the other hand, citrus is frequently cited for its nutritional value and as an effective aid in preventing cancer. How do you figure out what's true for you? One way is to eat a lot of citrus, see how it makes you feel, and then proceed accordingly.
See Bitter Orange; Citron; Clementine; Grapefruit; Kaffir Lime; Kumquat; Lemon; Lime; Mandarin; Orange; Pummelo; Tan-gelo; Tangor; Ugli Fruit.
CITRUS PEEL Citrus Zest
Don't toss organic orange peel. | | Domestic feijoas are available in the fall; imported fruits are available in the spring and early summer. See tropical fruit.
FENNEL
Finocchio, Florence Fennel, Sweet Fennel
(Foeniculum vulgare var. dulce or azoricum)
There are two distinct varieties of fennel, a Mediterranean parsley relative. Wild fennel (F. vulgare) has the small flat seeds, technically the fruits, which are used as a spice; the greens are used as an herb. Sweet or Florence fennel (F. vulgare var. duke) is used as a vegetable. This type has a large, bulblike base, hollow stalks, and threadlike leaves. |
Thomas Bartram
See book keywords and concepts | | Part used: juice of the unripe tropical fruit that contains papain, a non-animal enzyme which assists digestion of protein. Acts best with an alkali such as Meadowsweet. Has a similar action to pepsin, an enzyme secreted with the gastric juices of the stomach. Digests wheat gluten, thus assisting recovery from coeliac disease. High in beta-carotene (A).
Uses: acidity, flatulence, incomplete digestion of meats. Patient preference: vegetarian hypo-allergenic yeast-free, freeze-dried Papaya. For slimming diet.
Tablets/capsules. Popular combination. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Certain medications can cause diarrhea, as can large doses of vita-
Diarrhea: Cut Your Risk of the Runs
This tropical fruit Stops Diarrhea Fast
Bananas are a classic diarrhea remedy, and not just because of their potassium content. They're soothing to your digestive tract, and they help bind stool.
In fact, bananas are one ingredient in the so-called BRATT diet, which many doctors recommend to relieve diarrhea. Besides bananas, the diet consists of rice, applesauce, tea, and toast (hence the name BRATT). I'd also recommend plain apples and apple butter, for their pectin. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Calories: 65
Reported health benefits: This exotic tropical fruit contains a bit of almost all vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and some fat, protein and calories; it can be regarded almost as a complete food. It would be an ideal diet for someone wishing to adopt a slimming diet for removal of obesity and the conditions usually accompanying obesity such as heart, liver and kidney ailments.
Preparation: This fruit may be eaten raw or mixed with other fruits and vegetables as a salad.
Botanical information: Glycine hispida, a small erect herb of the bean family. |
Paul Pitchford
See book keywords and concepts |  Fortunately, they revert to normal nearly as quickly. The same applies to an excess of highly concentrated foods (meats, eggs, salt, etc.). When children grow up swinging between nutritional extremes, it is more difficult for them to root out that tendency later on. However, as mentioned before, small amounts of animal products to supplement deficiencies is not extreme.
Food and Behavior
People who think that food has little effect on behavior need only observe the difference in children who begin to eat a balanced whole-food diet. |
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