Because you can make Quinine from grapefruit peel
Peel grapefruits and slice the peel.
cover with water and simmer for a couple of hours
Do not remove the lid of the saucepan at any time....keeps Quinine vapor in.
When cool, add honey or brown sugar for taste.
Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetabl
Yes Captain O. We know that. That’s exactly why we thought they would be banning it.
RE: “Because you can make Quinine from grapefruit peel”
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I haven’t seen any evidence that quinine is a component of citrus peels. Sources say that it comes from the bark of the Chinchona tree.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121651/
Quinine, as a component of the bark of the cinchona (quina-quina) tree, was used to treat malaria from as early as the 1600s, when it was referred to as the “Jesuits’ bark,” “cardinal’s bark,” or “sacred bark.” These names stem from its use in 1630 by Jesuit missionaries in South America, though a legend suggests earlier use by the native population.
According to this legend, an Indian with a high fever was lost in an Andean jungle. Thirsty, he drank from a pool of stagnant water and found that it tasted bitter. Realizing that the water had been contaminated by the surrounding quina-quina trees he thought he was poisoned. Surprisingly, his fever soon abated, and he shared this accidental discovery with fellow villagers, who thereafter used extracts from the quina-quina bark to treat fever.
The legend of quinine’s discovery accepted in Europe differs though, and involves the Spanish Countess of Chinchon who, while in Peru, contracted a fever that was cured by the bark of a tree. Returning to Spain with the bark, she introduced quinine to Europe in 1638 and, in 1742, botanist Carl Linnaeus called the tree “Cinchona” in her honour.
Before 1820, the bark of the cinchona tree was first dried, ground to a fine powder, and then mixed into a liquid (commonly wine) before being drunk. In 1820, quinine was extracted from the bark, isolated and named by Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou. Purified quinine then replaced the bark as the standard treatment for malaria. Quinine and other cinchona alkaloids including quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine are all effective against malaria.
Thank you. I will keep recipe.