Seeds in small fruits

[RawVegan4Health]

OK, I have not had to deal with this before, but I have been starting to think about smaller fruits like grapes and cranberries. Do any of you have any great recommendations on using small fruit like these with seeds that need to be removed? Do you actually de-seed them individually, or do you juice them, or what? Just curious.

[Revvell]

Chew and spit. :D

Revvell

[RawVegan4Health]

LOL!:p I knew THAT!:D I first thought about it this morning when I made a fruit smoothie. I used a bit more orange today than ususal because, well, because I just wanted some more orange than usual. While drinking it I thought to myself, "Self, this could really use some cranberry". Well, I got to thinking about it and I would not want to just chuck some raw cranberries in there because of the seeds I would guess. That made me wonder about using cranberries for other things as well. All I could come up with was juicing them and using the juice. I guess I was just wondering if anyone had any alternatives to just juicing them that I hadn't considered.

Gosh, I sure do wonder about some wierd things compared to most people I guess! How many other non-cranberry-farmers spend their morning contemplating cranberries and their seeds?

[Pierre]

I throw both oranges and blueberries (which are in the same genus as cranberries), seeds included, into smoothies.

[pianolady]

Yes, I also just throw the whole fruit in and whirl away. Works for me.

[luckitri]

I have been throwing the whole fruit in but recently I read about cyanide in the seeds of some fruits like apples. This knowledge has confused the issue for me. I had also read that the healing laetrile is contained in some fruit seeds not just the peach. Is there one authority who has most knowledge on this topic?

[SmilingRawDancer]

Will it injure my vitamix to blend cherry pits?

(I'd REALLY appreciate an answer...I'm craving another cherry based smoothie, but strongly dislike taking the time to pit those bad boys.)

[RowanC]

I've done some study on this and the laetrile found in the pits of apricots, apple seeds, etc. will actually help your body round up the stray cells that cause cancer!

So eat em when you can!

They also contain cyanide, but in small doses, it is beneficial.
If a person like me has bowls of apricot kernals laying around, they should be out of the reach of small children, like any pharmaceutical would. Too many COULD kill a child, as could too many aspirin.

It is suggested you eat 5 to 7 apricot kernals per day, spaced out over the day, chewed well, in case anyone's interested.

I'm not sure about cherry pits and yes, I would think they would hurt your vitamix blades. A cherry pitter is less inexpensive than a new vitamix.

[juliebove]

I've never removed seeds from a cranberry. I just eat them. I don't eat a lot of grapes, so if I do have ones with seeds (I usually buy seedless), I just spit them out as I eat them, or cut them in half for a fruit salad, removing the seeds as I go. For cherries, I either use a pitter, if putting them in a dish. Or just spit as I go.

[luckitri]

Thanks RowanC. I trust your input.

[SmilingRawDancer]

I've done some study on this and the laetrile found in the pits of apricots, apple seeds, etc. will actually help your body round up the stray cells that cause cancer!

So eat em when you can!

They also contain cyanide, but in small doses, it is beneficial.
If a person like me has bowls of apricot kernals laying around, they should be out of the reach of small children, like any pharmaceutical would. Too many COULD kill a child, as could too many aspirin.

It is suggested you eat 5 to 7 apricot kernals per day, spaced out over the day, chewed well, in case anyone's interested.

I'm not sure about cherry pits and yes, I would think they would hurt your vitamix blades. A cherry pitter is less inexpensive than a new vitamix.


In the China Study, the whole laetrile thing is mentioned as quackery....just saying :)

I'm not out-ruling ANY possibility of laetrile being beneficial, but....I guess I trust doctors.... I dunno.

[RowanC]

Well, a person can find support or unsupport for any topic they want if they do enough research. The China Study is just another theory. Here are some other examples: Weston Price http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/price.htm

or Winfield Abbe, whose credentials are more impressive than Dr. Campbell's to me:

Propaganda Article To Divert Attention From Failure Of War On Cancer. - Opinion
posted by Winfield J. Abbe on 09 May 2007 at 4:12 am
This news release and conference is nothing but a callous effort to divert public attention from the patent failure of the so-called "War on Cancer'" which has been squandering public and private billions of dollars for over 3 decades. Over one person every minute dies either from cancer, "treatment", mistreatment would be a more appropriate description, or both. Every orthodox cancer treatment is life threatening. Virtually all less toxic proposed treatments have been obstructed by the medical orthodoxy of the U.S. The prime cause of cancer was discovered decades ago by the genius level scientist Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D. (1883-1970) in his laboratory in Germany, first in animal tissues and later proved for human tissues by the 1950's and 1960's. His work has been confirmed in numerous scientific papers, but negligently and criminally denied by the medical orthodoxy of the United States and others around the world. Here are a few references documenting these statements:

1. "The Cancer Industry" by Ralph W. Moss, PH.D., Equinox Press, N.Y., 1996, first published about 1980.
2. "The Truth about Hydrazine Sulfate-Dr. Gold Speaks" by Joseph Gold, M.D., 2005 at http://www.hydrazinesulfate.org.
3. "American Cancer Society America's Wealthiest 'Non-Profit' Institution" by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., International Journal of Health Services, 1999, available at http://www.preventcancer.com.
4. "CancerGate,-2005", Baywood Press, N. Y., by Samuel S. Epstein, :M.D.
5. "The Hidden Story of Cancer" by Brian Peskin, E.E. and Amid Habib, M.D., Pinnacle Press, Houston, 2006.

The cancer generals have it backward. Nothing happens without energy in the proper form. Energy makes and creates DNA, not the reverse. The proper energy, as Otto Warburg demonstrated, is mother oxygen. When oxygen is totally removed from living cells, they die and their DNA is decomposed. When oxygen is partially removed, as Otto Warburg proved, those cells which do not die, switch to cancerous ones and run on sugar. The mutated genes are a result, not a cause of cancer. Again, DNA cannot create energy, especially the necessary oxygen energy, necessary for cell differentiation. Energy must be provided externally to the living organism. Isn't it too bad so many "medical professionals" don't even understand something as basic as cell metabolism discovered by Otto Warburg as early as 1923, and published in English in "The Metabolism of Tumours", 1930!

Winfield J. Abbe
A.B., Physics, UC Berkeley, 1961
M.S., Physics, CAlifornia State University at Los Angeles, 1962
Ph.D., Physics, UC Riverside, 1966
150 Raintree Ct.
Athens, GA 30607

And I do NOT trust doctors.. not for one minute. I worked with doctors for the past 7 years and I have seen and heard things from doctors that would make your blood curdle. I do NOT trust them, not on my life.

I trust my gut.. that's what I trust.

[Solace]

Seeds are beautiful and should be eaten. Genetic engineering has be removing them from grapes and watermelons= those 2 are especially good for you.........eat um eat um eat um alllllll:D