Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Hi Belinda and all, Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is her post #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! Elchanan ______ Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing great! I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of the writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing and page layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the program ... thanks for sharing! One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: ___ And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I bought a couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a transition food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it matures into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. ___ Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet corn ... believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn after it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently editing, by permaculture farmer David Blume: ___ Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose molecules linked together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known as flinty starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline masses of 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term energy storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much more resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of corn, while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar and contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from the stalk, however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic process that links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or so. Cooking stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, husked, and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know what a difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky enough to eat corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. ___ I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw festival, a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat corn fresh off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 seconds ... I'm sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose had already bunched up into a tangled web!! I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out in the field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without breaking it off! ) Love, Laurie Laurie Masters, freelance editor Precision Revision " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " LaurieM <http://health.PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmmVj9g> 408-715-7781 _____ rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Belinda Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM rawfood [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to the most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you will see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to mention it makes the salad rather attractive. So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. Belinda in TN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 yea....has anyone ever eaten it on the stock?? Im dying of curiousity to know what would be like.. peace anna On 6/1/07, Elchanan <Elchanan wrote: > Hi Belinda and all, > > Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is her post > #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! > > Elchanan > ______ > > Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing great! > > I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of the > writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing and page > layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the program ... > thanks for sharing! > > One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: > ___ > > And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I bought a > couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a transition > food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it matures > into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. > ___ > > Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet corn ... > believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn after > it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently editing, > by permaculture farmer David Blume: > ___ > Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose molecules linked > together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known as flinty > starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline masses of > 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term energy > storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much more > resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of corn, > while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar and > contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from the stalk, > however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic process that > links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or so. Cooking > stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly > enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, husked, > and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know what a > difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky enough to eat > corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. > ___ > I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw festival, > a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat corn fresh > off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 seconds ... I'm > sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose had > already bunched up into a tangled web!! > > I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out in the > field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without breaking > it off! ) > > Love, Laurie > > Laurie Masters, freelance editor > Precision Revision > " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " > LaurieM > <http://health.PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmmVj9g> > 408-715-7781 > _____ > > rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of > Belinda > Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, > hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to the > most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without > harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. > The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, > The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very > knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just > sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you will > see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very > claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help > myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. > He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I > guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, > organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing > was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to > mention it makes the salad rather attractive. > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn > thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet > tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > Belinda in TN > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Do you mean Corn on the Cob? Faith _____ rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Anna Bishop Friday, June 01, 2007 1:14 PM rawfood Re: [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? yea....has anyone ever eaten it on the stock?? Im dying of curiousity to know what would be like.. peace anna On 6/1/07, Elchanan <Elchanan@pathofheal <Elchanan%40pathofhealth.org> th.org> wrote: > Hi Belinda and all, > > Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is her post > #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! > > Elchanan > ______ > > Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing great! > > I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of the > writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing and page > layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the program ... > thanks for sharing! > > One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: > ___ > > And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I bought a > couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a transition > food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it matures > into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. > ___ > > Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet corn .... > believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn after > it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently editing, > by permaculture farmer David Blume: > ___ > Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose molecules linked > together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known as flinty > starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline masses of > 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term energy > storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much more > resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of corn, > while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar and > contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from the stalk, > however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic process that > links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or so. Cooking > stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly > enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, husked, > and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know what a > difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky enough to eat > corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. > ___ > I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw festival, > a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat corn fresh > off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 seconds ... I'm > sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose had > already bunched up into a tangled web!! > > I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out in the > field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without breaking > it off! ) > > Love, Laurie > > Laurie Masters, freelance editor > Precision Revision > " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " > LaurieM@VibrantLivi <LaurieM%40VibrantLiving.org> ng.org > <http://health. <http://health.PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmmVj9g> > 408-715-7781 > _____ > > rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com [rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com] On Behalf Of > Belinda > Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM > rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com > [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, > hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to the > most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without > harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. > The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, > The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very > knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just > sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you will > see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very > claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help > myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. > He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I > guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, > organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing > was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to > mention it makes the salad rather attractive. > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn > thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet > tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > Belinda in TN > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 yes...on the cob still on the stalk.. anyone tried that? Someone somewhere has to have..no? gosh if i got the chance i would! peace anna On 6/1/07, Pat <a0003539 wrote: > Do you mean Corn on the Cob? > > > > Faith > > > > _____ > > rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of > Anna Bishop > Friday, June 01, 2007 1:14 PM > rawfood > Re: [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > > yea....has anyone ever eaten it on the stock?? Im dying of curiousity > to know what would be like.. > > peace > anna > > On 6/1/07, Elchanan <Elchanan@pathofheal > <Elchanan%40pathofhealth.org> th.org> wrote: > > Hi Belinda and all, > > > > Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is her post > > #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! > > > > Elchanan > > ______ > > > > Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing great! > > > > I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of the > > writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing and > page > > layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the program ... > > thanks for sharing! > > > > One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: > > ___ > > > > And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I bought a > > couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a transition > > food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it matures > > into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. > > ___ > > > > Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet corn > ... > > believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn after > > it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently editing, > > by permaculture farmer David Blume: > > ___ > > Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose molecules > linked > > together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known as > flinty > > starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline masses > of > > 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term energy > > storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much more > > resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of corn, > > while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar and > > contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from the > stalk, > > however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic process that > > links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or so. > Cooking > > stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly > > enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, husked, > > and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know what a > > difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky enough to > eat > > corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. > > ___ > > I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw > festival, > > a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat corn fresh > > off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 seconds ... I'm > > sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose had > > already bunched up into a tangled web!! > > > > I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out in the > > field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without breaking > > it off! ) > > > > Love, Laurie > > > > Laurie Masters, freelance editor > > Precision Revision > > " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " > > LaurieM@VibrantLivi <LaurieM%40VibrantLiving.org> ng.org > > <http://health. > <http://health.PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > > PathOfHealth/post?postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > > > nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmmVj9g> > > 408-715-7781 > > _____ > > > > rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com > [rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com] On > Behalf Of > > Belinda > > Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM > > rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com > > [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > > > > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, > > hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to > the > > most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without > > harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. > > > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. > > The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, > > The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very > > knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just > > sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you > will > > see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted > > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very > > claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help > > myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. > > He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I > > guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, > > organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing > > was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to > > mention it makes the salad rather attractive. > > > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my > > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn > > thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet > > tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > > > Belinda in TN > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Thanks for the info Elchanan. Very informative, if disappointing. I knew corn tasted too good to be good for you.) Belinda (who is wondering if homemade ice cream is ok for a raw diet, because it is raw;o)) rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan wrote: > > Hi Belinda and all, > > Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is her post > #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! > > Elchanan > ______ > > Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing great! > > I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of the > writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing and page > layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the program ... > thanks for sharing! > > One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: > ___ > > And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I bought a > couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a transition > food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it matures > into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. > ___ > > Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet corn ... > believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn after > it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently editing, > by permaculture farmer David Blume: > ___ > Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose molecules linked > together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known as flinty > starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline masses of > 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term energy > storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much more > resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of corn, > while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar and > contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from the stalk, > however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic process that > links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or so. Cooking > stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly > enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, husked, > and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know what a > difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky enough to eat > corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. > ___ > I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw festival, > a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat corn fresh > off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 seconds ... I'm > sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose had > already bunched up into a tangled web!! > > I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out in the > field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without breaking > it off! ) > > Love, Laurie > > Laurie Masters, freelance editor > Precision Revision > " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " > LaurieM > <http://health.PathOfHealth/post? postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmm Vj9g> > 408-715-7781 > _____ > > rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of > Belinda > Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, > hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to the > most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without > harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. > The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, > The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very > knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just > sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you will > see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very > claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help > myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. > He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I > guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, > organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing > was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to > mention it makes the salad rather attractive. > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn > thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet > tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > Belinda in TN > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 oooooooooo...i want in on this! ice cream!?.....raw? can we eat this if we use raw dairy?..i never thought of this..... what a great idea! anna <haagen dazs nut> On 6/1/07, Belinda <MistyBlueTN wrote: > Thanks for the info Elchanan. Very informative, if disappointing. I > knew corn tasted too good to be good for you.) > > Belinda (who is wondering if homemade ice cream is ok for a raw diet, > because it is raw;o)) > > > > rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan wrote: > > > > Hi Belinda and all, > > > > Laurie Masters wrote an excellent piece about corn. Following is > her post > > #8353 from the PathOfHealth archive. Enjoy! > > > > Elchanan > > ______ > > > > Hi, Sarah, and welcome! I just read your entire blog. You're doing > great! > > > > I've been Doug Graham's editor for several yeas, and I did a ton of > the > > writing, research, and fact-checking, as well as all of the editing > and page > > layout, for 80/10/10. It's so fun to see people trying out the > program ... > > thanks for sharing! > > > > One thing I thought I'd mention. On day 33, you say this: > > ___ > > > > And then....I saw the corn...and I just couldn't resist it. I > bought a > > couple of the freshest looking ones. They're really more of a > transition > > food because corn is only sugar when it's very freshly picked...it > matures > > into starch after it's picked, and starch is difficult to digest. > > ___ > > > > Surprisingly, it's essentially impossible to eat digestible, sweet > corn ... > > believe it or not, you've only got LESS THAN 2 MINUTES to eat corn > after > > it's picked!! Here is some information from a book I am currently > editing, > > by permaculture farmer David Blume: > > ___ > > Starch takes on several forms. Simple starch is 35 glucose > molecules linked > > together in a chain. Corn and a few other crops have what's known > as flinty > > starch, where the chains are bunched together in semi-crystalline > masses of > > 1000 or more glucose molecules. Nature uses starch for long-term > energy > > storage because it has a very stable chemical structure. It's much > more > > resistant to decomposition by bacteria than sugar. In the case of > corn, > > while the ear is on the stalk, its kernels are chock-full of sugar > and > > contain little if any starch. The moment an ear is separated from > the stalk, > > however, its sugar begins converting to starch, an enzymatic > process that > > links all the sugars together, which occurs within 90 seconds or > so. Cooking > > stops the conversion of sugar to starch by deactivating the assembly > > enzymes. If you've ever boiled water near a cornfield, and picked, > husked, > > and dropped an ear into a boiling pot inside 30 seconds, you know > what a > > difference enzyme conversion makes. If you haven't been lucky > enough to eat > > corn that fresh, take it from me-it tastes as sweet as candy. > > ___ > > I had no idea! I remember several years ago after the Portland raw > festival, > > a group of us raided a friend's backyard garden so we could eat > corn fresh > > off the stalk. But I'll bet we didn't know we only had 90 > seconds ... I'm > > sure we talked, laughed, shucked, and then ate corn whose glucose > had > > already bunched up into a tangled web!! > > > > I guess the best thing to do would be to bend a cornstalk right out > in the > > field and eat your corn with your head cocked sideways -- without > breaking > > it off! ) > > > > Love, Laurie > > > > Laurie Masters, freelance editor > > Precision Revision > > " I turn what you wrote into what you meant! " > > LaurieM > > <http://health.PathOfHealth/post? > postID=dqOCMdbP9bESv > > > nXyH1WWfNqJeLcYPIhnmmt5K6vGvuSQP0MPX8xEtVRfRnkeIuwljmKBvVkwLWJn292ywmm > Vj9g> > > 408-715-7781 > > _____ > > > > rawfood [rawfood ] On > Behalf Of > > Belinda > > Friday, June 01, 2007 3:46 AM > > rawfood > > [Raw Food] Is corn bad for you? > > > > > > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling > Springs, > > hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was > introduced to the > > most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living > without > > harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. > > > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and > fruits. > > The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known > simply as, > > The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very > > knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he > just > > sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and > you will > > see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that > wanted > > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was > not very > > claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I > couldn't help > > myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was > wonderful. > > He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to > Italian, I > > guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh > raw, > > organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his > dressing > > was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not > to > > mention it makes the salad rather attractive. > > > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat > on my > > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little > corn > > thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy > and sweet > > tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > > > Belinda in TN > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 You're welcome. There is farm not far from me, I guess it would be considered Portola Valley, California, where they harvest corn several times daily (in season) and bring the fresh ears right to the front of the store.People stand around eating them, THEN pay!!! It's a great scene, if you happen to be there at the " right " time. And even then, I once went and ate a couple of ears, after having eaten none in a long time. It still tasted good (though not as good as I remembered), but afterward .... Best, Elchanan _____ rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Belinda Friday, June 01, 2007 12:08 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: Is corn bad for you? Thanks for the info Elchanan. Very informative, if disappointing. I knew corn tasted too good to be good for you.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 How is it bad for you? :^/ Elchanan <Elchanan wrote: You're welcome. There is farm not far from me, I guess it would be considered Portola Valley, California, where they harvest corn several times daily (in season) and bring the fresh ears right to the front of the store.People stand around eating them, THEN pay!!! It's a great scene, if you happen to be there at the " right " time. And even then, I once went and ate a couple of ears, after having eaten none in a long time. It still tasted good (though not as good as I remembered), but afterward .... Best, Elchanan _____ rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Belinda Friday, June 01, 2007 12:08 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: Is corn bad for you? Thanks for the info Elchanan. Very informative, if disappointing. I knew corn tasted too good to be good for you.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Hi Jerri, I understand, great-tasting corn is not something to be " given up " lightly!! :) My answer is that it depends ... If you eat the corn alone, having eaten nothing for a few hours beforehand, and then allow several hours for your system to fully digest it before your eat your next meal, then at the most most people might experience a bit of indigestion...we humans don't really digest starch very well. Also, corn (and most vegetables) is high in indigestible fiber. A modest quantity (as is typically present in green leaves is good for us, necessary in the opinion of many. But an excess weighs us down. This fiber is called " indigestible " precisely because our bodies possess literally zero capacity to break it down ... our only release is, well, release. FYI, fiber is merely carbohydrate, organized into a large, complex structure that is impervious to most enzymatic and bacterial activity. Some fiber is of modest size and complexity, soluble in water, hence " digestible " . Other fiber is more complex, " harder " , not soluble in water, hence, " indigestible " . Once you start combining corn with other foods, then it just depends on the combination, what was eaten earlier that remains partially digested inside you, etc. Great signals that you've eaten a poor combination include, among others, that sluggish, tired feeling awhile after you've eaten, along with that stuffed " full " feeling I imagine all of us have experienced. So it's not " bad " for us, in the sense that certain items really are toxic or poisonous to our systems. With corn (and starchy vegetables in general), it's just more difficult for us to digest. That is, digestion requires more energy, more resources, etc. In other words, I am aware of zero cases where anyone received a dread-disease diagnosis due to eating corn. It's just uncomfortable for may. Best, Elchanan _____ rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of jerri willmore Friday, June 01, 2007 12:42 PM rawfood RE: [Raw Food] Re: Is corn bad for you? How is it bad for you? :^/ Elchanan <Elchanan@PathOfHeal <Elchanan%40PathOfHealth.org> th.org> wrote: You're welcome. There is farm not far from me, I guess it would be considered Portola Valley, California, where they harvest corn several times daily (in season) and bring the fresh ears right to the front of the store.People stand around eating them, THEN pay!!! It's a great scene, if you happen to be there at the " right " time. And even then, I once went and ate a couple of ears, after having eaten none in a long time. It still tasted good (though not as good as I remembered), but afterward .... Best, Elchanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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