Posted on 04/07/2025 11:46:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Berries; Blueberry, Viking Aronia, Black Raspberry, Blackberry etc
Why does it always have to be vegetables?
This is berries, actually
I quit chewing gum once I heard about microplastics.
Is that right next to your sock drawer?
Oh, thanks. Things are looking up. Now I can go back to doing taxes
Thanks.
Not fond of most of these foods, though often have yogurt with fruit for dessert.
Kombucha contains probiotics. I drink a lot of it, favorite flavor is Mojita, because it’s not sweet. Tastes a lot like a Mohito. 0.06% alcohol. My friend who leads largest daily AA group in the city likes it, says that much alcohol isn’t enough to hurt him.
Pomegranate juice is dark purple and delicious. It should of course be kept in glass bottles and always refrigerated. I get mine at Walmart, where they have the best in town.
We just saw a week ago that there was an article stating carrots and apples were really bad. Loaded with micro-plastics.
Never know which study to believe. I think every one is suspect. Unless it agrees with my own preconceived notions of right or wrong.
Well, we need a lot more research, that is for sure.
Will let you know when I get the results. My cellular health is excellent and I only started eating blueberries. :) So if the main toxicity of Micro/nano plastics is induction of oxidative stress anything to reduce that should help. The vast majority of plastics from what I understand are excreted in any case (which the Millionmarker test for chemicals in urine is expected to test).
The problem has been known about for years but on a more positive note the research at last is starting to follow.
We harvest GALLONS of wild Black Cap Raspberries each summer - sometimes Blackberries too, if we’re lucky. I freeze them, loose, on cookie sheets, then bag them and keep them frozen.
We eat them nearly every day on yogurt or cottage cheese.
I Picked 3 gallons of viking aronia, all frozen. Lots of antioxidants, but its not a really a tasty out of hand type of berry. I cut them up and use it to brew hot ginger / green tea.
The children are all grown and I have not been to the U-Pick blueberry patch in a number of years. The owner passed and I do not know if the Mrs. will continue the running the patch. I think that I will go this year and get 10 or 15 pounds to freeze if she is open.
Pomegranate juice is good stuff, I agree.
While I enjoy juice as a beverage, a lot of the flavonoids, phenols, and polyphenols at issue are frequently in the pulp and also require such high dosages to be effective that dried fruit is a more realistic option, or supplements that take out the sugar and just leave the bio active substances.
I have no clue if pomegranate juice keeps the good stuff. Hope it does.
Long way of saying, whole fruit, dried fruit, and supplements is the safe way to go for health benefits.
I try to take supplements by color, believe it or not: green (broccoli, olive leaf, whatever), red (lycopene), yellow (quercetin, cumin), white (spermatin, fistein, hesperin, blue/purple (berries, reveretol), plus Vitamin D and C and zinc/magnesium. Then high dosage fish oil and a couple others.
The above is not comprehensive. I vary my groupings, sticking to the color scheme.
Collagen of various kinds, but that’s because I’m a power lifter and my joints get banged up. Plus I don’t like dark bird meat.
Creatinine, too.
In top of that I eat a healthy diet heavy on protein and veggies and fiber.
My numbers and health are great. Look like I’m in my 30s, when I’m an old Gen X, banged up Iraq vet. My grey hair even partially went back to black.
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