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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:04:46 -0500

This is pretty interesting. Do you eat them raw? Chew them or crack them or swallow them whole?

Bob Waldrop, OKC
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Pittman" <scott@permaculture.org>
To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds


When I am in the tropics I eat a few paw-paw seeds to kill intestinal
parasites that I may pick up - particularly worms. I eat four or five a day
and have never suffered any ill effects.

Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org
-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Paul d'Aoust
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:25 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds

Further to what Jordan says, PFAF says the seeds contain toxic
alcaloids, and are emetic (i.e., make you barf):

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Asimina+triloba

El vie, 17-10-2008 a las 16:53 -0700, Jordan Fink escribió:
I would say "NO"
paw paws are already slightly carcinogenic, and their seeds are very
poisonous from what ive read.

-j


> Can I eat the seeds of the paw paws now that > the fruit stage has gone
> by (which I missed..) I am able to pick up > some of the dried up pods
> with seeds. Are they ok to eat?
>
> Paul K..southern Illinois
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