What is fruit? Written by : FRUITARIAN.info by David Klein, Ph.D., Hygienic Doctor, Naturorthopathic Doctor, HygioPhysician A fruit is a seed-bearing package developed and grown specifically by a plant (stalk, vine, bush or tree) to induce consumption by a biological symbiont, which in turn gives the incidental benefit of the distribution of its seeds, thus insuring procreation of its kind. With uncanny intelligence, the edible fruit portions, that is, the mesocarps, were specifically compounded to attract symbionts. Fruits perfectly meet their symbionts’ dietary needs with predigested nutrients. When ripened, fruits accommodatingly convert their carbohydrate components into glucose and fructose, simple sugars we can use without further digestion. When ripened, their enzymes also convert their proteins into amino acids and their fats into fatty acids and glycerols. Thus, when we eat fruits, all we need do is savor their goodness. Squashes (including pumpkins and zucchini) are botanically classified as fruits, although their bio-chemical composition places them in the starchy or semi-starchy food combining category. With regard to food combining guidelines, fruits are categorized according to their bio-chemical composition as such: acid, sweet, sub-acid, starchy, semi-starchy, melons, vegetable-fruits, oily. Acid fruits include: citrus (oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes), cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, mangos, berries, kiwi, pineapples, guavas, passion fruits and tomatoes—these require about 1 hour for digestion, and they do not combine well with any other fruits except cucumbers. Sweet fruits include: bananas, dates, figs, grapes, persimmons, durians, mameys—these require about 2 to 3 hours for digestion, and they should not be combined with any acid or melon fruits. Sub-acid fruits include: papayas, apples, pears, apricots, cherimoyas, sapotes, sapodillos—these require about 1 to 2 hours for digestion, and they should not be combined with any acid or melon fruits. Starchy and semi-starchy fruits include squashes. These require about 3 to 5 hours for digestion, and they should not be combined with any acid, sweet, sub-acid or melon fruits. Melons. They require less than an hour for digestion and they do not combine well with any other fruits or foods except cucumbers. Vegetable-fruits include: cucumbers and sweet bell peppers -- these require less than an hour for digestion, and they combine well with all foods, except bell peppers do not combine well with melons. Oily fruits include: avocados and olives -- they require 6-12 hours for digestion, and they combine well only with green leafy vegetables and minimal amounts of acid fruits. All fruits except melons combine well with any green leafy vegetables. In nature, we would be most attracted to colorful, fragrant, ripe, sweet, luscious fruits --generally, all we have to do is grab, peel, split or pop them directly in our mouths and enjoy. The great fruitarian educator, Dr. T. C. Fry, wrote: “For humans, no other food compares with fruits in satisfying all needs including, of course, our requirement for delicious soul-exalting fare.” Dr. T. C. Fry also wrote the following in a beautiful essay titled: Humans & Fruit: Symbiotic Partners In Life”: But the greatest wisdom of all, perhaps, was that which created the food package (fruit) to proportionately meet the precise needs of its eaters; those creatures who, in taking and becoming dependent on these foods, became the fruit plants biological symbiont. That this method of seed distribution was successful is evidenced by the thousands of kinds of fruits created around the seeds in nature. Fruit attracts human senses in nature and are gourmet delights in their natural ripened state which ensures their survival. Also, fruit contains no poisons in the fresh ripened state, whereas almost all plants and seeds contain components which we cannot metabolize, hence are toxic directly or indirectly.....Fruits are the natural food of humans and the only food category ideally suited to all their faculties. This does not mean we should, in our present circumstances, eat fruit totally and exclusively, but it does mean that, in nature, thats all we ate as attested by Dr. Walker.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:30:37 +0000
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