40. Ideal Fruit-combinations
You can eliminate cellulite only if you eat lots and lots of fruits daily. Don't think you have consumed enough when you have eaten a couple of bananas and three oranges. You must eat pounds of fruit a day (2 kg. / 4.4 lbs. minimum). And remember: fruit cannot possibly cause you to gain weight. Fruit doesn't contain physically addictive beta-carbolines or opioid peptides (see part 4), and, on the average, contains 80% to 90% water. Have you ever overeaten on fruits?
The sweet taste of ripe fruit is just a promise that your brain and muscles will be supplied with the glucose your body needs. Always start your day with fruit or fruit juice. If you don't, you will start your day by waking up your 'junkie-receptors' - making it extremely difficult to maintain a diet for the entire day that consists of fruit and very little prepared foods.
Eating fruit the first thing in the morning will provide your body with energy; this absorbed energy will consist entirely of sugars. Sugar as a sole source of energy is quite unstable so your body will be stimulated to utilize its body fat for more sustained energy. It will also make you desire dietary fat. To fulfill that need you should eat something containing healthy fat at lunch or at about 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. You can have a salad topped with cold pressed olive oil, for example, or Brazil nuts with raisins, an avocado, or sashimi. If you have an avocado with a tiny bit of salt or pepper, this will also satisfy your cravings for a salty snack.
Fruits and animal protein can easily supply you with all the required nutrients. If you consume enough fruit every day, you can choose the tastiest munch-foods to eat, disregarding their nutritional value.
To meet the minimum requirements, eat daily:
1. The basic fruits
2. 1½ kg. / 3 1/3 lbs. of supplementary fruit, minimally
3. Fresh raw food from animal origin
For the exact nutrient-contents of these foods, see Appendix B at the back of the book.
The basic fruits are:
1. one avocado
2. a handful of Brazil nuts (shelled by hand) - with raisins, and banana slices for example, or - in a fruit salad
3. a tomato-cucumber salad (they are actually fruits also)
- with cold pressed olive oil, olives (not salt-cured) and chives topping for example, or - with avocado and chopped red onion, etc. (See Chapter 42)
If you cannot purchase Brazil nuts or well-ripened avocado, you will need to consume an extra ½ kilo / 1 lb. of the supplementary fruits.
The best supplementary fruit combinations
The fruit combinations listed below provide the most efficient way for you to satisfy your daily requirements. These combinations with the basic fruits and a little bit of food of animal origin are all that you need. This doesn't mean that they need to be eaten together (as in a shake). You can consume one kind of fruit at a time. (The fruits that can be best combined in a fruit-shake are listed in the next chapter.)
The fruit combinations listed below will most adequately supply you with all required vitamins, minerals and trace elements - if you also eat the basic fruits and a little fresh raw food of animal origin. A total minimum of 1½ kg. / 3 1/3 lbs. of one of these fruit-combinations should be consumed throughout the day (peel/skin/seeds/stone not included):
orange-pineapple-mango
orange-pineapple-papaya
orange-pineapple-muskmelon
orange-pineapple-watermelon
orange-pineapple-mandarin
orange-pineapple-guava
orange-pineapple-passion fruit
orange-pineapple-apricot
orange-plums-muskmelon
orange-plums-watermelon
orange-plums-mango
orange-plums-papaya
orange-plums-mandarin
orange-plums-guava
orange-plums-apricot
muskmelon-orange-banana
muskmelon-orange-mango
muskmelon-orange-mandarin
muskmelon-orange-grapes
muskmelon-orange-plums
muskmelon-orange-apple
muskmelon-pineapple-banana
muskmelon-pineapple-mango
muskmelon-pineapple-mandarin
muskmelon-pineapple-grapes
muskmelon-pineapple-plums
muskmelon-pineapple-apple
muskmelon-plums-mango
muskmelon-plums-mandarin
muskmelon-plums-grapes
mandarin-orange-banana
mandarin-orange-mango
mandarin-orange-apricot
mandarin-orange-apple
mandarin-pineapple-mango
mandarin-pineapple-banana
mandarin-pineapple-apple
plums-mango-mandarin
plums-mango-pineapple
Remember that these fruits must be fresh or dried – not frozen or canned in any way.
You may not be able to find all these fruits in your supermarket. If you live in a big city you may be more successful shopping in small immigrant stores or specialty shops. If you live in a small town or rural area, find out about shopping by mail or if you have a computer – the internet for boxed dried fruits.
If you don't like Brazil nuts, have some walnuts or hazelnuts instead, and a little piece of coconut every once in a while.
If there aren't any proper avocados available (only the dark-skinned really creamy avocados are rich in vitamins), eat the same fruits, but half a kilo/ 1 lb. more.
If you don't want to eat a tomato-cucumber salad, the following fruit combinations (together with avocado, Brazil nuts, and some food of animal origin) are also perfect:
muskmelon-mandarin-plums
muskmelon-mandarin-orange
orange-pineapple-plums-watermelon
orange-mandarin-pineapple-extra nuts
Eating fruits at home is easy; you can make a mess if you want. But it is a bit harder at work.
You will probably find it easier to cut and prepare your fruit salad at home - either in the morning or the evening before.
Fruits for on the go, or to take with you to work, should be easy to transport and filled with high energy items - like dried fruits and nuts. Of course there is always room in your bag for 2 bananas, 2 oranges and/or apples (or other fresh fruits).
Nuts & Raisins
Of all the fruits, raw Brazil nuts with raisins and bananas are the most ideal combination to eat on the go, or at work. Shell the nuts before you go to work.
Brazil nuts are a perfect food for they are small in size and light in weight, and, when combined with raisins, provide sufficient sugars and healthy fatty acids to supply you with energy for hours.
The protein quality of Brazil nuts is better than that of any other food and they are loaded with vitamins and minerals. (See appendix B in the back of the book)
Dried Fruits
Dried fruits like dried figs, dates and apricots are also very good on-the-go foods, and they can be stored for a long time. They are relatively clean, concentrated, and filled with vitamins, minerals and energy – a perfect food to nibble on when you need a bite or a lift.
Shakes
You can only make fruit-shakes at home and take them with you to work if you consume the shake within 3 to 4 hours. If it takes that long before you start drinking it, you better not add sugar to it.
Drinking fruit-shakes first, you will have a healthy energizing start for your day. Maybe you are lucky and can make your shake at work if you are your own boss. If so, be sure to drink it within a few hours for it tastes best when consumed fresh. You don't need to be upset by the browning; it is the color of banana-starch that is transformed into single sugars due to oxidation.
You can take a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice that you have made the night before (or better yet – in the morning) and stored in the refrigerator. Commercial 'fresh orange juice' is never fresh and raw, because pure fresh raw orange juice has deteriorated before it ever reaches the store. They are always doing something to increase 'shelf-life'.
Avocado
The one whole fruit that you can most easily take with you to work is avocado because it does not contain juice. All you need is a little knife and a teaspoon. Cut it open, remove the stone, and enjoy. If you really can't do without it - add a tiny bit of salt. For a tasty lunch, you can also eat some tomato with it; cut two tomatoes into pieces and sprinkle with a few herbs (from a baggie).
You should eat an avocado near the end of your working day so that you are able to fight the temptations of all the flavors you encounter as you are heading home. It will temporarily satisfy your cravings for salty snacks. Avocado is an extremely satisfying food. It is also wonderful for your skin because of the healthy fats it contains.
Banana
Bananas can, of course, also be eaten on the go or at work. You can turn them into a munch-snack by combining them with low-protein chocolate - a very satisfying combination.
If chocolate contains 5% protein, you can eat up to 150 grams / 5¼ oz. combined with two bananas as one munch-food item for example. (See Ch. 55) This should definitely satisfy you.
Because one munch-snack can only contain up to 7½ gram protein, you have to carefully examine food labels for protein content. These vary widely in commercial chocolate; if the chocolate's protein content is 7½ %, then you can't have more than 100 g. / 3½ oz. of it, of course.
Consuming the fruit combinations (in addition to some food from animal origin) as advised in chapter 40 will provide you with all the required nutrients. But food is not just about nutrients, but also about taste and digestion.
These fruits can be eaten alone, of course, but some can also be combined in salads or juices.
Some people think you can combine any combination of fruits, but that is not true; many fruits don't combine well with other fruits (like grapefruit, papaya and passion fruit don't combine well with other fruits).
But the fruits listed below go well together.
Fruits that can be combined in fruit-shakes very well:
For the 'milk shake effect', add extra banana and some sugar, and blend a little longer - until it starts looking creamy and 'foaming'. Don't do this if your skin is susceptible to acne.
You may also add fresh raw egg yolk to a shake or fresh orange juice, which makes the shake / juice taste soft and creamy. Add the yolk after the fruits have been mechanically blended, and stir with a fork.
The reason why bananas combine so well with other fruits is because other fruits contain only simple sugars (fructose, sucrose and glucose), but bananas also contain starch and pectin. Combining these different sugars supplies you with a more stable source of energy than simple sugars only. These sugars are absolutely not fattening. (See part 4) Banana starch is not constipating like other starch food since it is not accompanied by constipating beta-carbolines (prepared foods) and opioid peptides (wheat and dairy products).
These fruits go together very well in a fruit-shake:
- 3 bananas-half a cup orange juice
- 2 bananas-half a cup orange juice-1 apple (or pear!)
- banana-muskmelon / honeydew-banana
- banana-peach-half a cup orange juice
- banana-apricot-half a cup of grapefruit or orange juice
- banana-(straw)berries-some orange juice or lime juice
- banana-(rasp)berries-some grapefruit juice
- 3 bananas-¼ cup apple juice-5 oz. blueberries
- mango-peach-banana-coconut milk
- mango-banana-pineapple-coconut milk
- mango-peach-some grapefruit juice
- apricot-pineapple-strawberry
- pear-strawberry
- apricot-pineapple-1 banana
- orange-grapefruit-pineapple
- cucumber- tomato-olive oil-chives, and fresh raw egg yolk -added after blending
- Juice carrots, little red onion and one clove of garlic. Puree a little tomato with avocado and add that to the carrot 'broth' and sprinkle some fresh chives on top. (and some cayenne pepper if you are not very susceptible to acne)
Combining fruits in a salad:
- Avocado, peeled and chopped tomatoes, olives, dash of lemon juice, pressed garlic.
- Chop some apple, orange, and sweet onions, and add some raisins, honey and grated ginger.
- Chunks of Gaya/musk melon, a peeled red grapefruit (no white peelings), 150 g. / 5 oz. peeled and chopped fresh dates, 80 g. / 3 oz. chopped walnuts, 2 Tbs. honey, 1 Tbs. lemon juice.
- Cucumber, walnuts, raisins (previously soaked in syrup), pineapple, chives, cold-pressed olive oil.
- Mix 2 tsp. sugar, 1-teaspoon vanilla sugar (or liquid vanilla extract with sugar / honey) and ground coconut. (and some dark rum if you like). Top over salad of pineapple, orange and kiwi.
- Soak raisins in fresh orange juice overnight outside the refrigerator. Add chopped muskmelon, banana, and a little honey.
Or:
- Apple, banana, raisins and Brazil nuts
- Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and banana
- Strawberries, banana, apricot, pear
- Chunks of sweet apple, honeydew, pear, banana and pineapple
- Peach, pineapple, black berries, banana
- Peach, pineapple, pear, melon
- Peach, raspberries, banana, pear
- Sweet red berries, raspberries, banana, melon
- Black berries, raspberries, banana, pear
- Kiwi, banana and litchi
- Kiwi, banana, pear and melon
- Litchi, melon, pear, banana
- Melon, grapefruit, banana
- Pineapple, mango, kiwi, banana
- Pineapple, mango, apricot, banana
- Pineapple, banana, raisins
- Orange, banana, apple, raisins
- To turn cherries into a delicacy:
Heat and mix 2 Tbs. cherry-jelly with 2 Tbs. Kirsch until boiling, and then remove from fire. Dip the cherries (you'll need cherries with stems) in this mix, and then dip in sugar. Let them cool off before consumption.
Combining fruits and raw vegetables
Most vegetables cannot be consumed raw for they upset your bowels, but a few can. Some can also be combined with fruits:
- Mixed lettuce, chopped red onions, avocado, olives, cold pressed olive oil and some pressed garlic.
- Some lettuce, slices of avocado, sliced tomato, a bit of lemon juice and some chives, basil or any other fresh herbs you prefer.
- Cucumber, tomato, mixed lettuce, avocado with olive oil-dip
- Cucumber, tomato, mixed lettuce, onions fried in butter. (such a little bit of fried onion contains a negligible amount of 'dirty protein')
- Salad of chopped tomatoes, -red onions, -black olives, parsley, olive oil and garlic.
- Mix chopped shallot with pressed garlic, some hazelnut oil (as much as you like), 1 Tbs. wine vinegar, 2 Tbs. orange juice, 1 Tbs. lemon juice, ½ Tbs. powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp. ground cumin, and a pinch of pepper. Add 200 g. / 1 cup chopped carrots and let this rest for one hour. Add chopped orange and hazelnuts.
Cold pressed olive oil-dips:
- Olive oil, Balsamic vinegar, and mixed Italian herbs, or
- Olive oil, chopped green and black olives, chopped shallots or pressed garlic
- Olive oil, chopped shallots and chives or scallions (green
onions)
- Olive oil, pressed garlic and chives (or scallions)
- Olive oil, chopped dried tomatoes, pressed garlic
- Olive oil, herbs de Provence and chopped onions or chopped green olives
Consuming a salad every day is not just important regarding taste and vitamins, but is also essential regarding blood energy level.
Since our body has (besides alcohol) only two sources of energy at its disposal; fats and sugars (redundant protein is converted in both), and since fruits mainly contain sugars, the fat from Brazil nuts, avocado or olive oil is essential to stabilize blood sugar level. You therefore better make a big bowl of salad every day, covered with lots of olive oil, and take a few bites of it after every time you have consumed some fruit/juices. This fat will stabilize your blood sugar level and will thus also prevent carvings.
Use extra virgin cold pressed olive oil only, and make sure to use enough!! But also make sure your cold pressed olive oil is really "cold-pressed", for 'they' like to mix 'the real thing' with genetically modified and processed sunflower-, soy- or corn-oil, because these are far cheaper. These processed oils however, are not healthy at all.
Cold pressed olive oil is extremely healthy for your skin, your bowels, your heart, and the uptake of nutrients. Cold pressed olive oil is thick and has that specific olive flavor. Don't save money on cold pressed olive oil. Go to specialized shops or to Italian, Greek, Turkish, Spanish or Arabian food stores. They have a long tradition of consuming high-quality olive oil. Health and well being of the Italians, Greeks, Turks, Spaniards, and Arabians are saved by their generous use of cold pressed olive oil - despite the fact that they consume unhealthy prepared foods, too. This also saves many of them from constipation and gives them beautiful rich hair.
Those who listen to the anti-fat propaganda and don't consume good oils and real full-fat butter generally have dry and thin hair, and often must use laxatives to have a normal stool.
Fruits, together with raw animal protein, have been supplying us for millions of years with all the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, protein, sugars and fatty acids that we need. Our bodies no longer produce vitamin C because we have always eaten so much fruit - unlike all other animals that do not eat fruits regularly.
Fruits are not there just for us. By eating fruits, humans have also aided nature in the multiplication of fruit trees by spreading the indigestible stones and seeds - creating new trees in the process.
Many of these seeds and pits contain toxins to prevent them from being destroyed by chewing. Other seeds (like in kiwis) are just so small to be destroyed by chewing.
When you blend fruits, be sure all seeds (and pits, of course) are removed - except for those in kiwi, tomato, cucumber etc.
The fruit that nature meant for humans is generally of little color on the outside to avoid attracting the birds. Berries, on the other hand, are colorful enough to attract birds, and generally contain mild to severely toxic substances (like cyanogenics) to prevent their being consumed by mammals.
Different fruits also contain different substances that prevent us from eating too much of one kind of fruit only - thus forcing us to eat different kinds of fruits, combining the best mixture of vitamins and minerals.
Isn't nature wonderful?
Eating too much of any of the following substances in fruits makes you want to eat other fruit instead of more of the same:
Bananas contain useless serotonin, which must be decomposed by enzymes because dietary serotonin cannot enter the brain; serotonin in the brain is composed solely of absorbed tryptophan.
Acerolas and guava contain extremely high levels of vitamin C. Consuming too much vitamin C can cause diarrhea – a sign that your body does not like to process too much vitamin C.
Lemon, currants, and apricots contain a great deal of citric acid. Grapes and nuts hold large amounts of ellagic acid; bilberries, grapes, and strawberries contain tannins. Citric acid, ellagic acid and tannins inhibit nutrient-absorption.
Complex carbohydrates like lignins, cellulose, pectins, pentosanes, and hexosanes are extremely hard to decompose. Bilberries contain the most pentosanes. Currants are high in lignins, hexosanes and cellulose. Dried apricots hold high levels of pectins. Coconut and guava contain quite a bit of cellulose.
Fruits like melon, cherries, pineapple, plum, orange, mandarin, and mango (but also papaya, peach, and banana) contain the least hard-to-degrade complex carbohydrates.
Therefore you should not eat a too large amount of only one kind of fruit (except for fruits like apples and oranges), but combine different fruits. The more different fruits you eat, the better.
If they are consumed when perfectly ripe, all fruits smell (except for durian) and taste good. Unfortunately, they don't know how to treat and store fruits in many stores and supermarkets (and even at wholesale markets).
Most fruits don't ripen when maintained below 12°C / 54 F. Mangos don't ripen below 20°C / 68 F. That is why they are so often stringy and unripe, and yet already rotten at the same time. But when they are perfectly ripened, they taste absolutely delicious.
Avocados are also vulnerable and can taste delicious only when ripened properly. Only the creamy ones (like the Hass) are rich in vitamins. Avocados ripen between 18 - 25°C / 64 - 77 F, and become tainted below 12°C / 54 F.
Fresh (non-dried) dates have usually been frozen because they are very hard to maintain. If you don't live near the place where they are grown, consume only dried dates. Make sure to check the expiration date. If you are not sure about the freshness and the quality of the dried date, open the fruit (because you cannot see on the outside) to check whether it is free from molds. If you see a spider like dust web with little dots, it's way beyond the expiration date and you should go back to the store and demand either your money back or fresh dates instead.
Fresh figs mold very easily. In brown-spotted figs the sugars have already been transformed into acids - which gives them an awful taste.
Dried figs can be maintained (in a cardboard box) for over a year, and even become nicer after one year of storage due to the sugar accumulation.
Like all other canned foods, canned fruits aren't raw either of course.
Bad substances
Fruits, like other foods, can contain substances that shouldn't be there. Strawberries and apples can even contain nitrite due to over-fertilization (especially in low-sun countries).
Dried fruits are often sulphured - turning apricots a bright orange instead of the natural brown-orange and black-spotted. The non-sulphured ones don't look as nice but, in fact, taste much better.
Pesticides are sprayed on almost all fruits so all fruits should be peeled/pared before consumption, including tomato, cucumber, and apples.
Fruits and …..
Serotonin; Fruits like banana, pineapple, papaya, but also avocado, contain (useless) serotonine. If you are not used to eating fruits containing serotonin, you do not have much enzymes at your disposal that can decompose this serotonin, which can give you a headache or mild heart-pains. Gradually increase the quantities of serotonin-containing fruits and the number of serotonin- decomposing enzymes will adequately increase too.
Cramps: Don't consume fruits within two to three hours after having eaten fresh raw animal food for that will probably cause cramps.
This is because fiber, in particular, over-activates the bowels, causing bacterial decomposition of the food that is being digested in the bowels. (See appendix A)
Gasses: First see whether your bowels are fine with eating dried fruits, but if you find that they create gasses (or even cramps), you had better soak them in water overnight to 24 hours prior to consumption.
Mucus: Eating prepared proteinacous food (and milk and milk-products, in particular) increases mucus secretion. If you want to eat a munch-food item at the end of the day and do not like mucus, make sure to drink a glass of fresh orange, sweet grapefruit, or pineapple juice one and a half hours later. Or, at least, drink two big glasses of low mineral water.
Vitamins: You need food of animal origin to obtain clean cholesterol, vitamin D, and vitamin B12 (and extra of other nutrients, of course).
The nuts that you normally buy are shelled nuts. Those nuts cannot be shelled mechanically and have not been shelled by hand (which would make them quite a bit more expensive). These nuts are shelled by either heating or quick-freezing them – which is what makes the shells fall off. Unfortunately, this also causes 'dirty' protein to originate that can easily cause cellulite and / or acne.
You have to shell those nuts by hand to eliminate cellulite / acne.
Unshelled peanuts and cashew nuts, though, are rarely raw either - but mostly roasted in the shell, just like pistachios are roasted in the shell. Raw peanuts are very poorly digested and should not be eaten raw.
Aflatoxins
Aflatoxins are toxins produced by molds. Nuts can contain aflatoxins in the same way as meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and grains can. Aflatoxins are not destroyed by heat.
The shell protects fresh nuts from being contaminated by bad nuts, which is another reason why you should buy unshelled nuts and shell them by hand. If you shell nuts by hand, you can easily see whether the nut contains a mold or not. Buying shelled nuts, the bad nuts have been removed but can already have contaminated the others with aflatoxins produced by the molds on the removed bad nut.
Furthermore, it is harder to detect whether the nut tastes bad if the nuts have been salted.
A small amount of aflatoxins from a single not-so-fresh nut is not
that big a problem, for nuts also contain ellagic acid, which inhibits the activation of aflatoxins by enzymes.
Phthalates
Shelled nuts can also contain phthalates, which can cause cancer.
The plastic package holding nuts for example (or canned peas, rice crackers, and baby food) [142] contains phthalates to keep the plastic flexible - yet another reason to consume only raw nuts that you have shelled by hand (nutcracker).
Brazil nuts
Fresh Brazil nuts are supposed to be ivory white; if they've turned yellow - don't eat them. If you're not sure, take a little bite, and focus on the after-taste; you will definitely taste it if the nut is not good anymore.
You never feel like eating too many raw nuts at a time because they do not contain appetite-enhancing beta-carbolines and because they're so concentrated; fresh nuts hold (on the average) only 5% water. Fruits usually contain 80 to 90% water.
Consuming Brazil nuts protects the Brazilian, Bolivian, and Peruvian rainforests from being cut. It helps to increase the economic value of the Brazil nut evergreen trees - huge 30 to 50 meter high trees. Until now the demand for Brazil nuts is far lower than the forest offers, and the natives from the rain forests that gather those nuts are hardly paid - if at all. If Brazil nut prices would increase, more natives will protect their trees.
Brazil nuts contain high levels of vitamins – the highest vitamin B1 content, for example. (See appendix B) They also have a high mineral content, and the best quality protein of all foods. (See www.13.waisays.com/protein.htm)
Compared to other prepared nuts, prepared Brazil nuts are rather boring, but raw Brazil nuts taste better than other raw nuts, probably because Brazil nuts contain generous amounts of (healthy) fats (67%) and little fiber and tannins. Brazil nuts have a creamy coconut kind of taste.
For more info about Brazil nuts, see www.nybg.org/bsci/braznut
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