Eat the seeds, for cryin' out loud!

[tim-from-pa]

Along with the whole fruit, the seeds should also be eaten. Whether we're talking apple, apricot, peach or whatever. Such seeds contain laetrile, aka vitamin B17, and is a natural cancer fighting substance.

I once asked my chiropractor how many seeds or pits we should eat to make sure it's enough? He replied, "You mean how do I know if eating 2 are enough when I should be getting, say 20?" I replied, "Yes." To which he said, "As a rule of thumb, eat only the seeds and pits in the same amount you are eating the fruit. So if you eat, say 2 peaches, one apple and one apricot in a day, then eat their seeds, no more no less."

Makes sense. God knows just how much to put into each fruit because if we ate more, then someone's lacking seeds from another piece of fruit!

 

[Claudya]

You know those peach seeds are really tough. I don't think many people can chew them.

This is the bread I bought today:

It has a lot of sunflower, sesame and other seeds. Does that count?

 

[tim-from-pa]

You know those peach seeds are really tough. I don't think many people can chew them.

This is the bread I bought today:

It has a lot of sunflower, sesame and other seeds. Does that count?

Well, you have to crack peach pits open with a nutcracker and eat the "almond" inside.

Yes, those seeds count, too. Very good.

 

[Paul1965]

I love raw kernels as a snack or just hen eating fruit. Thayanee is forever shaking her head when I eat the whole apple or other fruit. I especially like watermelon and pumpkin. I use sunflower kernels mixed into rolled oats, raisins and prunes for my home made muesli.
Your chiropractor's rule of thumb is excellent advice too.
One thing you need to watch out for with peaches apricots and some other fruits is not to eat too much if you have a low body weight or if your kids are eating them. They contain Amygdalin. Which in turn can be broken down by an enzyme in your body into cyanide as well as a couple of other compounds.
I used to think it was an old wives tale, but there have been a quite a few incidents of cyanide poisoning in recent times linked to the healthy eating trend.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/16/science/q-a-133693.html

"A study of the toxicity levels of peaches and apricots clearly shows that 13 to 15 raw peach pit kernels would get you into the lethal range for adults, Dr. Margaret Dietert said.
For apricots, the toxicity varies widely in a tenfold range, depending on variety, she said. . The wild apricot is highest, and some are quite low, but for a variety in the middle level of toxicity, about 17 to 20 kernels would get you into the lethal range. No one has survived eating more than 38."

Claudya, I'm jealous, can't get bread like that unless I go to BKK or Laos

God Bless

 

[Obadiah]

Wow, all you folks must have some tremendous teeth! If I were to try to eat a peach or apricot pit, I would just break my teeth!

 

[Claudya]

Claudya, I'm jealous, can't get bread like that unless I go to BKK or Laos

I would send you a few but I doubt you'd like what is left of them by the time they arrive in Thailand.
I'd really miss those "heavy" breads if I had to live in a country where they aren't sold.
But baking bread ain't very hard, maybe you can make some self made sunflower seed bread?

I'm finding it interesting that you call seeds "kernels", because in my head a kernel is a computer OS core module. I keep lerning new English stuff every day.

 

[Claudya]

Wow, all you folks must have some tremendous teeth! If I were to try to eat a peach or apricot pit, I would just break my teeth!

That was my first thought too.... eat a peach pit? What? Do I look like a squirrel???
But apparently you can open the pits and eat the softer core inside of it. Like a walnut.
A walnut is the pit of an awfully smelling fruit nobody would eat. But if you open that fruit's pit (the walnut) you will find inside the delicious and easy to chew stuff we know as "walnuts".

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Eat the seeds.
I was brought up believing that watermelon seeds and apple seeds would kill me.
Where my mother got that, I don't know.
We are no longer in the dark ages.
Eat the seeds.

 

[Claudya]

I was brought up believing that watermelon seeds and apple seeds would kill me.

My parents told me that when people eat cherry pits then cherry trees would start to grow out of their rear end.

 

[Paul1965]

I was brought up believing that watermelon seeds and apple seeds would kill me

Allen, apple seeds also contain the cyanide compound , in much lower concentrations, you'd need to eat about a 40lb bag of them to become ill /die.

I keep lerning new English stuff every day.

learning ahh good to know we are helping with your edu-ma-cation Claudya, but I have noticed, that your English is very fluent for a non native speaker. I know a couple of native speaking teachers here that can't spell, use incorrect verb tenses etc. and they are both British! You outshine them by a long shot and if you hadn't mentioned you were from Germany, I really wouldn't have known.
About Kernels, the kernel is the soft edible "pulp"inside the nut. When you eat a peanut for instance, you are actually eating a "peakernel"if you eat the peanut, it tastes like wood and hurts your :D
Re baking bread, I used to in Oz but ovens aren't very common here and are extremely expensive. Bread makers are likewise....sigh...

 

[Obadiah]

That was my first thought too.... eat a peach pit? What? Do I look like a squirrel???
But apparently you can open the pits and eat the softer core inside of it. Like a walnut.
A walnut is the pit of an awfully smelling fruit nobody would eat. But if you open that fruit's pit (the walnut) you will find inside the delicious and easy to chew stuff we know as "walnuts".

Didn't know any of that! Now I want to try some. I wonder how they taste? Peach and apricot pits that is. I love walnuts, but never knew they came from stink fruit! Somehow I always pictured them hanging on tree branches looking much the way they do when we buy them in the stores.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Didn't know any of that! Now I want to try some. I wonder how they taste? Peach and apricot pits that is. I love walnuts, but never knew they came from stink fruit! Somehow I always pictured them hanging on tree branches looking much the way they do when we buy them in the stores.

I won't kid you, they do taste bitter.

 

[Paul1965]

I won't kid you, they do taste bitter.

That's why they suit me...being a bitter 'n twisted old coot 'n all :D

 

[tim-from-pa]

My parents told me that when people eat cherry pits then cherry trees would start to grow out of their rear end.

Sounds like something my family would say! :toofunny

 

[tim-from-pa]

Flax seeds are very good for you. I eat them by the handful like sesame seeds. My European ex-wife got me to liking the heavy breads, I can't hardly eat white bread anymore, it's nothing. Rye bread is great.

My wife makes flax seed muffins -- lots of Omega 3's in them!

 

[evenifigoalone]

My dad used to buy peach seeds (I think?) in packs, and eat several at a time at least every once in a while.

I love sunflower seeds.

 

[Paul1965]

Funny all this talk about seeds today, Thayanee steamed up a batch of jack-fruit seeds this afternoon...delicious.

30gm rolled oats (cant buy steel cut here, over rated anyway), 2 teaspoons sunflower kernels or almonds, 3-5 prunes or tablespoon raisins or blueberries, tub of zero fat plain yogurt and a tablespoon of raw honey. My daily breakfast yum!

 

[Knotical]

I had no idea you are supposed to eat the pits/seeds. My kids do tend to eat an entire apple, but I don't think we have ever considered cracking open a peach pit, or the like. Of course since I can stand any fruit that has a pit in it I may not be partaking, not because of the pit, just the taste of the fruit itself.

Aside from that I did come across a recipe for weight loss bread in a book about cancer cures. Tried making it once or twice, but gave up due to how expensive the ingredients are. You pretty much can only find them at health food stores.

 

[Claudya]

learning ahh good to know we are helping with your edu-ma-cation Claudya,

:p Yep thanks for your selfless concern with my education, I will kindly repay you by pointing out any typo I find in your posts.

but I have noticed, that your English is very fluent for a non native speaker. I know a couple of native speaking teachers here that can't spell, use incorrect verb tenses etc. and they are both British! You outshine them by a long shot and if you hadn't mentioned you were from Germany, I really wouldn't have known.

Thank you very much. :nod I've been using the internet for English practice for years.
Yeah I noticed some native speakers take their liberties with their language. Especially on the internet.
But the same thing happens among Germans. I guess people just take less care with their native language than they do with some foreign language.

About Kernels, the kernel is the soft edible "pulp"inside the nut. When you eat a peanut for instance, you are actually eating a "peakernel"if you eat the peanut, it tastes like wood and hurts your :D

I guess I just never heard the word kernel in the context of botany. I read it a lot when I was struggleing with my linux installation on my old laptop though. In both contexts the kernel is the center, the inner core of something. So it makes some sense.

Re baking bread, I used to in Oz but ovens aren't very common here and are extremely expensive. Bread makers are likewise....sigh...

So bread isn't much of an everyday dish in Thailand?

 

[tim-from-pa]

I guess I just never heard the word kernel in the context of botany. I read it a lot when I was struggleing with my linux installation on my old laptop though. In both contexts the kernel is the center, the inner core of something. So it makes some sense.

Did I hear Linux installation? A woman after my own heart! :love2:love2:love2

On a side note here, I won't promise that Linux is the easiest to install. Only this laptop installed without a hitch. On my other two other towers, one I did so with difficulty and the other would not work at all (but I'm going to swap CD ROM drives because it is very old and may be the issue).

But....... once it is installed, I love it! love it! love it! And once it is installed, one will never have to reinstall like Microsoft because it does not get the viruses that makes formatting and reinstalling a regular ritual like Microsoft. So one only has to endure the install nightmare once for the life of the computer --- the Internet updates do not have any trouble at all on any of them. I suspect the newer computers will install just fine using the new USB stick installation procedure instead, but my computers are old and I built them with cheap parts --- I think that's the problem.

OK. Back to the subject at hand. :yes