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Palm Sugar

Palm Sugar is rich in antioxidants.

In India, there are four varieties of sugar-yielding palms Date, Coconut, Palmyrah and Sago. Their names are as follows :

1. The Palmyrah Palm (Borassus Flabellifermis) The National Tree of the Kingdom of Cambodia (Due to Tamil ancient culture there)

2. The Date Palm (Phoenix Sylvestris)
3. The Coconut Palm (Cocos Nucifera)
4. Indian Sago Palm (Caryota Urens)

Indonesia palm is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arenga_pinnata

Antioxidant Activity of Borassus flabellifer (linn.) Fruits Antioxidant Activity of Borassus flabellifer (linn.) Fruits

Differences between Palm Sugar and Cane Sugar

S No	Cane Sugar	Palm Sugar
1	Cane Sugar is Sweet	Palm Sugar is sweet and delicious
2	Provides not much mineral salts	Provides mineral salts too
3	It has more sugar content	It has less sugar content
4	It has less/no nutrition value	It contains: a) Thiamine b) Riboflavin c) Nicotinic Acid d) Ascorbic Acid e) Protein f) Vitamin C
5	It is less therapeutic value	It is good to the problems of a) Asthmatic b) Anemic c) Leprosy d) To accelerate growth of young Children
6	Cane sugar sometimes create ill effects on the health	Palm sugar solution proves a wonderful food in both early stages and chronic stages of Typhoid
7	It creates cough and cold when consumed in high quantity	It is good remedy for cough and cold
8	It treats no health problem	It treats following diseases a) reduction of BP b) To decrease pancreas heat c) To strengthen heart d) Helps to build up strong teeth e) Reduces pita
9	It is treated as sweet water	It is treated as honey

Jaggery from Palmyrah palm (Borassus flabelliferL.)

Another good article on Palm jaggery - health benefits https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140901081235-288311205-what-is-palm-jaggery-what-is-karuppatti-what-are-their-uses

Research new on Health benefits of raw-sugar.

Iron deificient anemia and raw sugar

2017 Sep 3;14(5):589-598. doi: 10.1080/19390211.2016.1269145. Epub 2017 Jan 26.

Sugarcane Molasses - A Potential Dietary Supplement in the Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia.

Phytochemical profile of sugarcane and its potential health aspects. Refinedsugar is the primary product of sugarcane juice, but during its processing, various other valuable products are also obtained in an unrefined form, such as, brown sugar, molasses, and jaggery. Sugarcane juice is widely used in India in the treatment of jaundice, hemorrhage, dysuria, anuria, and other urinary diseases. Herein, we have summarized the different phytoconstituents and health benefits of sugarcane and its valuable products.

Total antioxidant content of alternatives to refined sugar.

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Medicinal Nuts

Vicia faba L.

Fabaceae
Broadbean, Fava bean, Horsebean, Windsorbean, Tickbeans (small types)

Said to be used for diuretic, expectorant, and tonic.

Inhalation of the pollen or ingestion of the seeds may cause favism, a severe hemolytic anemia, perhaps causing collapse. It is an inherited enzymatic deficiency occasional among Mediterranean people (Greek, Italian, Semitics). The genetic disorder occurs in about 1% of whites, 15% of blacks. The favism-inducing toxins are believed to be divicine and isouramil, the aglycone moieties of vicine and convicine. Flesh of broadbeans contains ca. 0.61–2.38% vicine, common vetch contains 0.04%, peas contitin traces, and soy flour is devoid of vicine. Injected intravenously in rabbits, broadbean extracts have produced haemoglobinuria and death. An ethanol-ether extract of broadbeans has estrogenic activity, 50 mg stimulates the nonpregnant uterus at dioestrus.

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Medicinal Seeds and Nuts

Click on the left links for the medicinal value of tubers you are interested to know.

https://www.seedsavers.org/

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Medicinal Grains

Every rice in Indian has been traiditonally been use for various medical benefits.

Navara Rice is a medicinal rice used in Ayurveda for neuromuscular disease. Read more about it.

Mappillai samba rice is very useful to Nervous System

Rakthashali Rice

Indigenous knowledge of the traditional and qualified ayurveda practitioners on the nutritional significance and use of red rice in medications

kavuni black rice.

A research paper on Indigenous rice varieties of India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navara_rice

See Navara Eco Farm products

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article2864465.ece?homepage=true

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3366884/

Black rice (Oryza sativa L.) extract attenuates hepatic steatosis in C57BL/6 J mice fed a high-fat diet via fatty acid oxidation

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Medicinal Grains
Wheat - Triticum-sativum - Graminae

Wheat is traditionally considered also for consumption for its medicinal properties. It is known as Godhuma in India. Ayurveda has praised its qualitities. It has a protein called gluten. Wheat gluten is composed of mainly two types of proteins, the glutenins and the gliadins.Gluten is naturally found in many cereal grains except rice and millets. This protein is found mostly in wheat family like common wheat, durum, spelt, khorasan, emmer and einkorn, barley, rye and some oat cultivars, and high in hybrids of these grains like triticale.

The hierloom vs hybrid wheat is industry vs home-made.

Glutens give dough its elasticity, helping it rise and keep its shape and often gives a chewy texture. With industrial revolution and hybrid making technologies, wheat has been genetically modified to serve food and non-food industries. The Triticeae glutens have thus unique viscoelastic and adhesive properties which makes bread and cakes soft taste. However the genetically modified wheat has two side-effects. It is high in glutein and also produced with the use of herbicides like roundup ready detyoing gut microbiome and making our immune system react to it and cause allergic reactions.

However the traditional wheats like Einkorn Emmer Wheat, spelt and Khorasan wheat or Indian Paigambari (ancient), Khapli , khaple, (Emmer) & Bansi, Kalibal, Kathia (Durum), Bansi, Kalibal, Kathiya & Chawalkatha are heirloom DURUM or Macaroni Wheat (Triticum durum) sona moti, is known to be low gluten grain does not cuase this allergic effect.

https://agriwisdom.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/heirloom-wheat-of-india/

.Do ancient wheats contain less gluten than modern bread wheat, in favour of better health?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35915783/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0733521017308263

Scientific conclusions may be due to min-interpretation.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ancient-wheat-less-allergenic-than-modern-fred-brouns/

"Patients with sensitization to wheat show a significant IgE binding against both modern and ancient grain varieties of the genus Triticum (wheat). Therefore, ancient grains do not appear to have a generally reduced risk for wheat allergy sufferers. However, few individuals only sensitized to ATI could benefit from the consumption of einkorn (an ancient wheat variety that does not contain or contains extremely low levels of ATIs)."

The above interpretation are based on already sensitive individuals... naturally they will be allergic to gluten proteins and the cause could be due to other factors like hybrid varities of wheat or the pesticides used exposing it to the immune system. This may not be the case with the heirloom wheat.

Hybrid Grains

https://uni5.co/index.php/general-health/five-steps-healing/earth-therapy/organic-foods/1568-hybrids.html

Is wheat is toxic or the gluten in the wheat is Toxic?

https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/

To know more above GMO , please click below link

https://uni5.co/index.php/organic-food/non-gmo-foods.html