Peter Pringle
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 In 1930, Congress passed the Plant Patent Act, but it covered only asexually propagated species, such as fruits, nuts, and flowers. Congress was reluctant to give breeders monopoly control over staple food crops. Potatoes, for example, were specifically excluded. U.S. breeders continued to push for wider property right protection—especially after European nations created an international plant patent—like protection system in 1961. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Proportions of individual anthocyanins in fruits of cranberry cultivars. J Amer Soc Hortic Sci 1987; 112:100-4.
Schlager T, Anderson S, Trudell J, Hendley J. Effect of cranberry juice on bacteriuria in children with neurogenic bladder receiving intermittent catheterization. JPediatr 1999;135(6):698-702.
Schmidt D, Sobota A. An examination of the anti-adherence activity of cranberry juice on urinary and non-urinary bacterial isolates. Microbios 1988;55:173-81.
Schultz A. Efficacy of cranberry juice and ascorbic acid in acidifying the urine in multiple sclerosis subjects. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 For this advantage, the seller has to sell the fruits and vegetables at a price the city sets. Today's thirty-five cents was half the market price.
"For sellers with the best spots, there's another obligation attached to being able to use the city land. Every weekend they have to drive produce-laden trucks to the poor neighborhoods outside of the city center, so everyone can get good produce."
"So how do the sellers make money if they have to sell at lower prices?" Anna asks.
Adriana cites three ways: First, the city charges almost nothing for the spot. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 The book in seven volumes is also called Shennong Bencao Jing Zhu (Commentary on Shennong herbs).
Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)
Emperor Gao-Zong of the Tang dynasty was concerned with having a complete pharmacopoeia and appointed the minister of works, Li Ji, to revise Tao's Commentary on Shennong's Herbal Classics. The complete work consisted of seven volumes and is known as Ying-Gong Tang Bencao (Duke Ying's Tang pharmacopoeia). A decade later, Su Gong pointed out the need for a revision of this pharmacopoeia. |
Peter Pringle
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| So the Berkeley researchers wondered if they could find and deactivate the gene in a bacterium responsible for allowing ice to form on delicate fruits and berries. The altered bacterium could then be sprayed on, say, strawberries, produce a rough instead of a smooth surface, and delay frost damage. In short order a product appeared named Frostban, marketed as the "ice minus" antifreeze bacterial spray.17
The Environmental Protection Agency allowed a field test in 1987 that attracted a lot of media attention. |
| If the keys to the creation of the new miracle plants—plants that defy pests, or grow well despite droughts or floods, or produce wonder fruits that serve as medicines as well as food—are locked up in the safe of agribusiness, it's hard to see how poor nations will reap the benefits. If we in the developed world can use a transgenic caffeine-loaded soybean to produce coffee in Minnesota, the coffee workers of Kenya are likely to lose their centuries-old livelihood. |
| You need the squash and you need the fruits," she said.12 Indeed, home-based gardening had been a popular strategy in Asia for the control of vitamin A deficiency. Studies had demonstrated that radio spots and other educational programs, supported by the media, did result in the increased cultivation of the right vegetables.
Even if golden rice were to overcome the technical, safety, and environmental issues, who would eat yellow rice? critics wondered. Even the poorest people who live on rice prefer the white grains as a status symbol, often with religious significance. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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| This mechanical worldview emerged centuries ago—twenty-five centuries, in fact—as one of the many fruits of ancient Greek philosophy. Some Greek philosophers saw the world as composed of tiny and invisible bits of inert matter with everything easily divided up—down to the last atom, with atom meaning "indivisible." Rediscovered four centuries ago, atomism became a central piece of the Scientific Revolution.
Atomism also fed the self-seeking caricature of ourselves, because it encouraged us to see humans as walking, talking "atom equivalents. |
Peter Pringle
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| A 1983 survey of American publicly available fruits and vegetables showed that 97 percent of the varieties being sold by commercial U.S. seed houses had disappeared since the beginning of the century. In that period, the varieties of cabbage in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's seed storage bank dropped from 544 to 28, carrots from 287 to 21, cauliflower from 158 to 9, tomatoes from 408 to 79, cucumbers from 285 to 16, and Mendel's garden peas from 408 to 25. Of the 7,089 varieties of apple in use during the same period, 6,211 had been lost, and of 2,683 pears, 2,354 no longer existed. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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| Most have only gotten worse since:
• For every human being on the planet, the world produces two pounds of grain per day—roughly 3,000 calories, and that's without even counting all the beans, potatoes, nuts, fruits, and vegetables we eat, too. This is clearly enough for all of us to thrive; yet nearly one in six of us still goes hungry.1
• Worldwide, we're feeding more and more of this grain, now almost half, to livestock, but animals return to us in meat only a tiny fraction of the nutrients we feed them. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| If you and citrus fruits aren't compatible, use those fruits and juices you do find friendly. Tomato juice, though lower in Vitamin C than citrus, is a good food, and the deficit in ascorbic acid will be made up by the supplements. Apple juice, when fortified with added Vitamin C, is useful, though its high content of carbohydrate calories may be a negative consideration for those who function best on a low-carbohydrate diet. Pineapple juice supplies too much sugar to make calorie watchers happy. |
| Dried fruits:
Apricots, dried 30 gm. 4 to 6 halves 4
Prunes, dried 30 gm. 3 to 4 medium 4
Dates, dried 30 gm. 3 to 4, stoned 4V£
Figs, dried 30 gm. 1% to 2 small 4
Raisins 30 gm. V* cup 4
Fruits and fruit juices:
Fruit cocktail 120
Orange juice 100
Pineapple juice, 100 unsweetened Grapefruit juice, 100 unsweetened Grape juice, 100 commercial gm. Vfe cup, scant I gm. V2 cup, scant 2 gm. % cup, scant 23/: gm. Y2 cup, scant 21/; gm. |
| If you and citrus fruits aren't compatible, use those fruits and juices you do find friendly. Tomato juice, though lower in Vitamin C than citrus, is a good food, and the deficit in ascorbic acid will be made up by the supplements. Apple juice, when fortified with added Vitamin C, is useful, though its high content of carbohydrate calories may be a negative consideration for those who function best on a low-carbohydrate diet. Pineapple juice supplies too much sugar to make calorie watchers happy. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| There is no question that people who eat less meat and more fish, fruits, and vegetables, and drink more wine, have significantly lower rates of death from heart disease. Furthermore, there is a strong correlation between diets high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (vegetable oils prone to oxidation/rancidity) and a high rate of death from heart disease, and correspondingly less death in those cultures that eat more monoun-saturated fats such as olive oil. Those countries with the highest intake of antioxidants and bioflavonoids have the lowest death rates from heart disease. |
| Most of the good and all of the bad prostaglandins are made from an omega-6 oil called gamma-linoleic acid (GLA), a type of essential fatty acid found in fruits, vegetables, and grains. You need GLA to make the majority of the good prostaglandins, but then you need to make sure it goes down the good prostaglandin pathway. What drives GLA down the wrong pathway to the bad prostaglandins? The biggest culprits are dietary: Hydrogenated oils such as margarines and a diet high in refined carbohydrates and sugar will drive GLA oils down the bad pathways. |
| Wash, peel, or even scrub fruits and vegetables well and eat organic produce whenever possible.
• If you think something at work is making you sick, pursue it. It could be mold or fungus in the heating or cooling system, fumes from wall paneling or carpets, or a coworker's liberally applied cologne or perfume.
• Stop using fungicides, herbicides, and pesticides. Get out of the habit of blasting indoor and outdoor pests with a can of spray. Learn how to control pests naturally. |
Peter Pringle
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| Our ancestors, in their hunter-gatherer phase, helped themselves to thousands of different kinds of fruits, berries, grains, leaves, nuts, and roots, but when they settled down to the grueling business of farming about ten thousand years ago, inevitably they cut the menu. Fewer than two hundred plants were eventually selected for cultivation. Staples came mainly from the grass family, Gramineae, the largest in the plant kingdom. Wheat and barley were grown first in the Fertile Crescent, rice in Asia, the feathery seeds of sorghum in Ethiopia, and maize in Mexico. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 It also occurs in seeds, such as oats (Avena sativa) and fruits, including sweet red pepper (Capsicum annuum), yams (Dioscorea spp.), and rose hips (Rosa spp.).
P-carotene is the most important of the carotenoid vitamin A precursors. It is used commercially as a yellow food coloring for fats (for example, margarine) and as a sunscreen agent to prevent the photosensitivity reaction of erythropoietic protoporphyria.
Fig. 6.100. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And it actually took hundreds of years before the right scientist came along and discovered that this was caused by a simple nutritional deficiency that could be cured by eating fruits high in vitamin C such as limes. Hence the name 'limeys' for sailors.
That's just one example of a disease caused by nutritional deficiencies. There are many other diseases such as rickets and beriberi caused by nutritional deficiencies. Asian people who historically ate polished, processed rice (white rice) frequently got beriberi, a disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin B1 (thiamin). |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Whole food supplements simply take organically produced vegetables and fruits and concentrate them into a convenient tablet that you can take. When you take a whole food supplement you are getting all the vitamins and minerals in the proportion that nature intended. You are also getting the enzymes and cofactors present in nature. It is interesting to note that many natural plants have up to 30 percent of their composition that defies scientific analysis. |
| It is also put in the water that is used in the irrigation of fruits and vegetables. The chlorine is a major problem. Again, I'm pointing this out to you just so you can see how all encompassing the problem is. So consider this: our water supply is loaded with toxins. |
| This is when foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, poultry and fish are zapped with radioactive beams of energy designed to kill any harmful bacteria, so you won't get violently sick or die when you eat it. This has been needed because the food processing system is producing food that has a higher chance of having deadly pathogens, therefore causing sickness or death. Irradiation changes the energetic frequency of the food, giving the food a frequency that is no longer life sustaining, but rather toxic to the body. This has been shown with Kirlian photography. |
| I believe that if you add or increase the amount of raw fruits and vegetables in your diet, you'll be better off.
Here's the other big problem. You can't look at food labels, you have to read the ingredients. Because if the label says all-natural, it's usually a big lie. Why? The food industry has lobbied the politicians to allow certain totally man-made ingredients to be classified as all-natural. Keep in mind that there are over 15,000 ingredients that don't even have to be put on the label. |
| Even when you consume fresh fruits and vegetables, you are ingesting small amounts of poison.
The same conditions apply in the meat industry. Like farmers and other food producers, the meat industry needs to create a lot of product cheaply and quickly, and sell it for as high a profit as possible. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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| By the year 2000, experts were estimating that our radical new way of eating—moving away from whole foods, grains, fruits, and vegetables—is linked to as many as four out of ten of all cancers.21
This giant experiment with the human diet has also triggered whole new diseases—eating disorders, for example. As a teen, I'd never even heard of bulimia and anorexia, but they've grown so fast that they now damage the lives of millions of Americans. |
Sandra Ingerman
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 We think of planting seeds that will be fed by the warmth of the earth and the light of the sun, producing the vegetables, fruits, and flowers that provide us with nourishment on all levels. We think of animals mating, so the young will have the time to learn to thrive before the cold returns.
In summer, we enjoy the fruits of all our labors. Life is at its fullest. It is the time to collect the nourishment the earth offers us and the power of the light of the sun to get us through the dark times ahead.
Wildlife also changes its behavior with the movement of the sun and seasons. |
Mark Blumenthal
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| Pharmacopeial-grade Cranberry Liquid Preparation is a bright red juice derived from the fruits of V. macrocarpon or V. oxycoccos, containing no added substances. Its pH is 2.5 ±0.1, with no more than 0.05% sorbitol, or 0.05% sucrose and, not less than 2.4% dextrose, 0.7% fructose, 0.9% quinic acid, 0.9% citric acid and 0.7% malic acid. The ratio of quinic acid to malic acid is not less than 1 (USP, 2002). The Brix level (measurement of sugar content of a solution) of single strength cranberry juice is a minimum 7.5% (US FDA, 1999). |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Inuli
Inulins are present in onions, leeks, garlic, bananas, asparagus, and artichokes, among other vegetables and fruits. Because of their sweet taste and texture, inulins are added to various foods in the form of powders produced by the food chemical industry. They are only slighdy digested in the small intestine and fermented by a limited number of colonic bacteria. The sources of inulins marketed as nutritional supplements and functional foods are the roots of chicory (Cichorium intybus) and Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus). |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 The term "Spiraea," used in a former binomial name, comes from the fact that the fruits have a twisted appearance.3 Established growths of meadowsweet often completely dominate the marshy areas in which they grow, making another common name, Queen of the Meadow, very appropriate.3
Parts Used
The aerial parts of the plant (fresh flowering tops and leaves) are used medicinally.
Traditional Use
Salicylic acid was first extracted from the flowering buds of this medicinal herb. The term aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) means "from Spiraea. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| The simple phenolic acids are ubiquitous among flowering plants, fruits, and vegetables. Ferulic acid, named after asafoetida (Ferula foetida), increases phagocytosis in mice. Anethol, found in aniseed oil (Pimpinella anisum), increases the leukocyte count in the blood; the widely found pseudotannin catechol stimulates granulocytes. The more complex lignans, with a range of effects including stimulation of phagocytic activity in polymorphonuclear granulocytes, cytotoxicity, and induction of interferon, are also proving to be important. |
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