Are fruits and veggies dead or alive??

[gabriele]

I'm wondering (i clearly have too much time on my hands) whether or not fruits and vegetables are "alive" in the sense that there is some kind of cellular activity while we are eating them? I think some nuts/seeds are alive in the sense that they are "dormant" and come alive/sprout at a later time.

But what about fruits and vegetables? Do they die the minute they are picked? And i don't mean "life force" or something intangible like that, i mean real, literal activity in the cells of the food which you could see under a microscope.

Or are they just plain "dead"? I don't have any reason for this question other than sheer curiosity.....

[Aleesha Sattva]

i have no idea... i do believe though that anything picked starts to die as soon as it's "umbilical" cord is cut from the tree/bush/plant.

[pixie_333]

i don't know if this answers your question or any food for thought... but i've seen the top part of beets and other things cut and put in a glass of water and started growing again. same with leaves from ivy plants that weren't even the roots.
i don't know why some people do this or if it can grow to be something planted or eaten again, but it keeps it living.

[Tenuho]

This is a great question that ive kinda subconsciously pondered everytime i eat a fruit/veggie...

as far as studying energetic activity....well......everythings alive....

[Veganforlife]

I feel they are living. They keep ME living.

[Barbie2]

I prefer not to know. If I knew the apple could feel pain when I bite it or if a carrot could say ouch, I would starve to death from fear of causing the fruit or veggie pain. LOL!:eek:

[Thick]

from here-- http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/newsletters/hortupdate/julaug01/art5jul.html



Plants do respond to injury. When wounded, their respiration rate increases just as it does initially when humans are injured. However, the increase is due to an increase in the use of stored food reserves in an attempt to repair the damage or to grow new cells. If the injury is too severe, the physiological food-conversion responses are disrupted and death occurs.
I've been searching for some information that I read a couple of years ago about high powered recordings of the sounds fruits and vegetables make..I'll keep looking.

[pixie_333]

I've been searching for some information that I read a couple of years ago about high powered recordings of the sounds fruits and vegetables make..I'll keep looking.

i would love to read about the recordings!! i hope you find it. it reminds me about how it was fairly recently discovered that giraffes do make sounds and communicate with eachother. some woman discovered it with some high powered recording gear.

[pixie_333]

i'm googling trying to find it and i just remembered about this and figured i'd share... dying plants put out a different aura color (i'm pretty sure it's red) and certain or all inscects are able to see it and when they see the plants aura has turned to this color is when specific insects that eat dying plants go in to feast off if it.
and i'd assume insects that feed off of healthy plants will leave it when it's aura changes color.

i don't have a resource to share... this is info i learned probably a decade ago.

[Thick]

Thank you for trying Pixie--both the giraffe sounds and the attractive/repellant auras are so, so so interesting to me. With so much information about food online, it's hard to find this info--do you know what the recording equiptment is called?

[pixie_333]

hey, i just found this. is this what you're talking about?

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2005/10/composer-perfor.php

and i found this... http://oddsandendsorchestra.blogspot.com/2009/02/singing-garden.html
4. We will experiment with attaching electrodes to philodendron or bird-of-paradise leaves, connected to EKG or GSR sensors that output voltage to a preamp and medical software. This will output MIDI signals to a computer so that people can approach the living plant and touch the leaves to “play” it like an instrument. This is an astonishing phenomenon that shows how plants react to local stimuli and appear to have moods according to how they are treated.

[pixie_333]

video :D

http://www.miyamasaoka.com/media_files/video/pieces_for_plants5_oak.html

[pixie_333]

I prefer not to know. If I knew the apple could feel pain when I bite it or if a carrot could say ouch, I would starve to death from fear of causing the fruit or veggie pain. LOL!:eek:

i personaly feel once the apple droped from the tree then it's granting you to have it. it's also when it's rippened and given as much life and nutiants it's able to give.

picking leaves off of like lettuce etc and but still planted is fine so long as it doesn't kill it and just a little taken at a time so it can focus on growing rather than most focus of healing.
asking the plant for it's permission to eat... there really is such a thing!!! not all plants are meant to be eaten yet can be food. many plants do not mind to feed us, but some aren't incarnated to be such.
use your intuition... if you get a pulling feeling or a no or negative feeling.. don't eat it. if you feel a welcoming feeling.. then eat it.
i noticed deers do this as well and also follow feng shui rules... if people plant pines and is bad feng shui deers eat 'em!!!

[Thick]

Thank you, Pixie--that is so , so interesting. I was looking for some specific study involving plants (cant remember which) but also eggs--even unfertilized ones. They scream in empathy when one around them gets cracked. The vegetable one was also very interesting..

[pixie_333]

about the eggs....yikes!!!!

[splendorintheraw]

HI Gabriel! From what I can remember, I beleive that they are dead. Of course they still offer us all the amazing benefits, that I'm sure youre aware of, if your looking for a "live" or "living" food, that would be sprouts. Sprouts are living up the point that you swallow them.

Hope this helps, Happy Sprouting!! ps... we will be having a whole section on sprouting with videos, coming very soon on my website.

[gabriele]

thanks everyone for all your answers. I tend to think they are pretty much dead, except for the sprouts. And maybe the enzymes in the fruits.......oh i don't know....