[NAFEX] Astringency in certain fruits & vegetables; stomach & GI tract bezoars.

Steven Covacci filtertitle at aol.com
Wed Dec 15 02:18:05 EST 2010



Topic: Astringency in certain fruits &vegetables; stomach & GI tract bezoars.


Aside from celery, coconut, pumpkin,leeks, beets, raisins, citrus, I would think under-rip bananas,  and,of course, under-ripe persimmons, does any one know if any of thefollowing fruits can also, in large and frequent quantities, resultin bezoars is humans and live-stock:


*Autumn olive; goumi; Russian olive;silverberry; etc.
*American plum and other tart-skinnedplums
*wild grapes, like northern foxgrape


I sometimes over-do the Autumn oliveson hikes – my stomach feels the same as when I consume under-ripepersimmons; I think that they have a high ratio of indigestiblecellulose and tannic acid.


Thanks,
Steve Covacci
USDA zone 6b/7a; New Jersey


(p.s. to reduce redundancy – whenreplying, where practical, please remove my original text, except forsubject heading and specific points being replied to.)

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