Introducing the Soursop!

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Introducing the Soursop!

Postby Judith » Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:17 pm

Introducing Soursop (also known as graviola)

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There are a lot of conflicting reports out there—as there always are! This fruit (I got mine from aVietnamese friend) is prickly on the outside, sour-sweet on the inside—as usual I would think that moderation is good—and eating some soursop (also called graviola) sometimes makes a good change from bananas which is the only other ‘sugar fruit’ I eat for breakfast on occasions ie a couple of times a week.

BUT if you trawl the Notable Net, you get several different versions of the story—Is it really “10,000 times more effective than chemo at targeting cancer cells, without the side effects” ….(see below)

“Since 1976, Graviola has proven to be an immensely potent cancer killer in 20 independent laboratory tests, yet no double-blind clinical trials–the typical benchmark mainstream doctors and journals use to judge a treatment's value — were ever initiated….

….A study published in the Journal of Natural Products, following a recent study conducted at Catholic University of South Korea stated that one chemical in Graviola was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at "10,000 times the potency of (the commonly used chemotherapy drug) Adriamycin…"

“….The most significant part of the Catholic University of South Korea report is that Graviola was shown to selectively target the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched. Unlike chemotherapy, which indiscriminately targets all actively reproducing cells (such as stomach and hair cells), causing the often devastating side effects of nausea and hair loss in cancer patients.

…A study at Purdue University recently found that leaves from the Graviola tree killed cancer cells among six human cell lines and were especially effective against prostate, pancreatic and lung cancers…. Seven years of silence broken — it's finally here!


Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/g ... sMDGjmG.99

And then:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10968288

The above address directs you to the paper from the Catholic University of Daegu (in South Korea), which some blogs site, "selective cytotoxicity comparable with adriamycin..."

The study was done on Asimina triloba which is in the same plant family as soursop.

“In Jamaica we normally use soursop to make a drink but it is much better eating it out of the hand....utilizing everything”....http://bestjamaica.com/soursop.html


Well eating graviola pills by the handful is very different I would say from eating the fruit, not constantly, but as a welcome change if you can get it...

Btw there are a chain of Vietnamese supermarkets in London UK where you can get a lot of interesting ingredients like frozen shredded coconut |(to make coconut yoghurt -more on this anon), brown rice noodles and brown rice paper wraps (good for wraps on the go) and wonderful flower tea—I also went to their ‘street food restaurant’ called The Longdan Express in Elephant and Castle-behind a wall of green bamboo poles which makes it already feel a bit tropical, I ate delicious vegan food and watched a film of a Vietnamese equivalent of Jamie Oliver doing his stuff in the country-side—not just vegan but the people look so happy it was a tonic! It made me feel almost as if I was there... Links to his films here below...

http://www.ovguide.com/tv/luke_nguyen_s_vietnam.htm
http://www.ovguide.com/tv/luke_nguyen_s ... ay-3472791
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