The Cleansing & Healing Properties of Fruits & Vegetables
Red Food speeds up circulation, creates fire, yang energy (Chinese medicine), and heats up your body including hands and fee. Some examples are tomatoes, cherries, red cabbage, red pepper, hot peppers, cranberries, watermelon, radish, wheat and rye.
Orange Food is anti-spasmodic and excellent for pains and cramps. Helps strengthen the lungs in polluted environment. Emotionally, it opens up your joy and expansiveness, promotes vitality and mental clarity. Some examples are oranges, carrots, apricots, pumpkin, sesame and pumpkin seeds.
Yellow Food is a motor stimulant, which gets you moving faster in the morning. It strengthens nerves, digestion and helps eliminate constipation. Lemon, limes, pineapple, grapefruit, apple, peach, banana, papaya, mango, yellow squash corn and butter are examples.
Green Food is a blood cleanser, bactericide and natural tranquilizer and nitrified. Includes all green leafy vegetables and sprouts, wheat grass, avocado, spinach, etc.
Blue Food is for headaches, spiritual and mental work. Foods include blueberry, plum, grape, potato, celery, parsnip, asparagus, and nuts.
Apples grow in the temperate zones of the world because they require a certain number of days below freezing each year in order to bear fruit This places them in close proximity to the major population centers of the world and available throughout the year and all year long. They are very rich in vitamins A and B.
Grapefruit: Luther Burbank developed the Grapefruit by crossing the orange and the lemon. Grapefruit has become an important commodity in the winter fruit market. The sweet red fruits are a popular gift item during the winter holidays. As is typical of citrus fruits, grapefruit is rich in vitamin C.
Grapes: The varieties of grapes are varied with corresponding differences in taste according to color. The grape seeds are rich in pycnogencol, also called grape seed extract. Processing the whole grape in a blender may have the benefit of the seeds. The pycnogenol is a nutrient that the body uses as a precursor to many materials used in healing the body of disease.
Always wash commercially grown grapes carefully as they are sprayed with poisonous materials to protect them on the vine.
Lemons and Limes: Nutritionally, they are rich in vitamin C, bioflavonoids that are vitamins that maintain the strength of the walls of cells and capillaries. Bioflavonoids are found in the soft white inner skin of the lemon.
Melons: The varieties of melons are rough skinned and are the most nutritious of fruits, ranking ahead of oranges and watermelon. They are excellent sources for vitamins A and C and they also assist in treating anxiety. If you are experiencing worry, try eating a cantaloupe!
Oranges are a seasonal fruit and they are best during the winter months, but they can be found year round with their cheery flavor. As with all vitamin C bearing fruits, they are at their nutritional best when freshly squeezed. Treating the skins to make them uniform and to give them sales appeals produces the universal orange color of commercially grown orange. An orange that has a pale skin is nutritious, so don’t let the color of the skin dissuade you from enjoying locally grown oranges.
Pears come in several varieties. Unlike apples, they have a very short period when they are ripe and before they spoil. They are shipped green and ripened in the store or at home, like bananas. They are ripe when they are soft and the stem pulls out easily. They are rich in vitamin C and provide Calcium, potassium, phosphorus and other minerals.
Pineapples are available in most stores are picked green and are ripened in transit. Field ripened pineapples have a distinctively sweeter flavor and yellow skin. They are rich in vitamin C and minerals and bromelain. Which is a powerful digestive enzyme and is very beneficial when taken with dietary supplements.
Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C. The peak of their nutrition is achieved on the vine just hours before they are over ripe, so, grow your own tomatoes if you can. Commercial tomatoes that are picked green and store ripened may look pretty but they are missing the nutrition that is available in a vine-ripened tomato.
The tomato was long considered to be poisonous to the western world. It was after a man who had visited India and saw that tomatoes were good food, sat on the courthouse steps of an American city and actually ate a ‘poisonous’ love apple in full view of the public and he didn’t die, that tomatoes became a staple in the diet of the western world. Incidentally, we think of tomato paste, and pizza in the same though-but Italy imported their first tomatoes from the United States.
