technical preservatives (was:pea salad)

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You are perfectly right, Rain!

I deeply respect everything that grows or is composed of grown herbs

or natural products!

I have even come to a point where I doubt the methods of conventional

medical treatment in favour of holistic treatments and alternative

therapies.

But I guess we are a bit talking in a circle here.

What everyone is concerned about are these things, that you probably

do not find in grown food nor would ever add yourself.

Without becoming dogmatic about technical preservatives and

colourings, there is a difference in the way you can treat food.

(Also skin whatever..)

And I think you are in favour of homeopathy. Thats exactly the point.

Do it the natural way.

 

Gabriella

 

 

, raincrone@j...

wrote:

> >and there wasn't any preservative on the menu (smile).

>

> True. Well, except for herbs. Rosemary, for instance, is such

a

> good

> preservative it compares favorably to BHA or BHT; I like to put it

in

> potato salad for picnic, since it's yummy with potatoes anyway.

> Chiles are an extremely good preservative too, and thyme and

> cinnamon aren't bad.

>

> >We might eliminate a lot of disease if we could eat more

> > like this. So many people are allergic to nitrates and so on,

that

> > it does seem to be leading to some chronic illnesses.

>

> Point taken. But does fake bacon contain added nitrates/nitrites?

> And <lightbulb moment> is the liquid smoke they use high in

> either of those? I thought those preservatives were used only

> in cured (real) meat, so I haven't looked for 'em in the

> nutrition blurb on the bulk bin at the healthfood store. Possibly

> I should, thanks.

>

> But I have to say this, speaking as an herbalist: just because

> something's natural doesn't necessarily make it safe. Some herbs

> like groundsel are as toxic as they are useful, and have to be

used

> with great, great care. Some are just plain too toxic to use

safely

> at all; many Kentucky roadsides are blanketed with poison hemlock

> in mid- to late summer, for instance, and it's so poisonous that

kids

> have died just from blowing whistles made from the hollow stems.

> And too much of some quite innocuous things (notably rosemary)

> can result in poisoning; there have even been a few deaths from

> rosemary overdosage.

>

> And I'm not against all chemical additives on principle. Some of

> them work, and are pretty clearly not harmful. I mean, hey. . .

> the Higher Power(s) also gave us our spirit of scientific

> inquiry, no?

>

> Thanks for a great thread, y'all!

> Rain

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