健康養生：含B-17豐富的食物（遠不止苦杏仁），願大家防癌抗癌路上多一些選擇（英文）

Foods Containing B17 (Nitrilosides)Vitamin B17 appears in abundance in untamed nature. Because B17 is bitter to the taste, in man"s attempt to improve tastes and flavors for his own pleasure, he has eliminated bitter substances like B17 by selection and cross-breeding. It can be stated as a general rule that many of the foods that have been domesticated still contain the vitamin B17 in that part not eaten by modem man, such as the seeds in apricots. Listed below is an evaluation of some of the more common foods. Keep in mind that these are averages only and that specimens vary widely depending on variety, locale, soil, and climate. SOURCE: The Little Cyanide Cookbook by June de Spain - (former) FDA Toxicologist and Pharmacologist.

Fruits	Range*	Seeds	Range*	Beans	Range*
Blackberry, Domestic	Low	Apple Seeds	High	Black	Low
Blackberry, Wild	High	Apricot Seeds	High	Black Eyed Peas	Low
Boysenberry	Med	Buckwheat	Med	Fava	High
Choke Cherry	High	Cherry Seed	High	Garbanzo	Low - Med
Wild Crabapple	High	Flax	Med	Green Pea	Low
Market Cranberry	Low	Millet	Med	Kidney	Low - Med
Swedish (lignon) Cranberry	High	Nctarine Seed	High	Lentils	Med
Currant	Med	Peach Seed	High	Lima, U.S.	Low
Elderberry	Med - High	Pear Seed	High	Lima, Burma	Med
Gooseberry	Med	Plum Seed	High	Mung	Med - High
Huckleberry	Med	Prune Seed	High	Shell	Low
Loganberry	Med	Squash Seed	Med
Mulberry	Med
Quince	Med
Strawberry	Med
Rasberry	Med

Sprouts	Range*	Nuts (all raw)	Range*	Leaves	Range*	Tubers	Range*
Alfalfa	Med	Bitter Almond	High	Alfalfa	High	Cassava	High
Bamboo	High	Cashew	Low	Beet Tops	Low	Sweet Potato	Low
Fava	Med	Macadamia	Med - High	Eucalyptus	High	Yams	Low
Garbanzo	Med			Spinach	Low
	Med			Water Cress	Low

High— above 500 mgs. nitriloside per 100 grams foodMedium— above 100 mgs. per 100 grams foodLow— below 100 mgs. per 100 grams foodVitamin B-17 is one of the main sources of food in cultures such as the Eskimos, the Hunzas, the Abkasians and many more. Did you know that within these tribes there has never been a reported case of cancer? According to Dr. Krebs, we need a minimum of 100 mg of vitamin B-17 (the equivalent of about seven apricots seeds) too nearly guarantee a cancer free life. Foods that contain vitamin B-17 are as follows:

KERNELS OR SEEDS OF FRUIT: The highest concentration of vitamin B-17 to be found in nature, aside from bitter almonds. Apple, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, plum, prune.

BEANS: broad (Vicia faba), burma, chickpeas, lentils (sprouted), lima, mung (sprouted), Rangoon, scarlet runner.

NUTS: Bitter almond, macadamia, cashew.

BERRIES: Almost all wild berries. Blackberry, chokeberry, Christmas berry, cranberry, elderberry, raspberry, strawberry.

SEEDS: Chia, flax, sesame.

GRASSES: Acacia, alfalfa (sprouted), aquatic, Johnson, milkweed, Sudan, minus, wheat grass, white dover.

GRAINS: oat groats, barley, brown rice, buckwheat groats, chia, flax, millet, rye, vetch, wheat berries.

MISCELLANEOUS: bamboo shoots, fuschia plant, sorghum, wild hydrangea, yew tree (needles, fresh leaves).

Two rules of thumb: According to Dr. Krebs, the basic concept is that sufficient daily B-17 may be obtained by following either of two suggestions:First, eating all the B-17-containing fruits whole (seeds included), but not eating more of the seeds by themselves than you would be eating if you ate them in the whole fruit. Example: if you eat three apples a day, the seeds in the three apples are sufficient B-17. You would not eat a pound of apple seeds.Second, one peach or apricot kernel per 10 lbs of body weight is believed to be more than sufficient as a normal safeguard in cancer prevention, although precise numbers may vary from person to person in accordance with individual metabolism and dietary habits. A 170-lb man, for example, might consume 17 apricot or peach kernels per day and receive a biologically reasonable amount of Vitamin B-17.And two important notes: Certainly, you can consume too much of anything. Too many kernels or seeds, for example, can be expected to produce unpleasant side effects. These natural foods should be consumed in biologically rational amounts (no more than 30 to 35 kernels per day).High concentrations of B-17 are obtained by eating the natural foods in their raw or sprouting stage. This does not mean that moderate cooking and other tampering will destroy the B-17 content. Foods cooked at a temperature sufficient for a Chinese dinner, for example, will not lose their B-17 content.
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