Foods Containing Vitamin B17 (Nitrilosides)

June de Spain: THE LITTLE CYANIDE COOKBOOK Delicious Recipes Rich in Vitamin B17 Pages 189-190 (excerpt)

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 modern man, such as the seeds in apricots. Listed below is an evaluation of some of the more common foods. Kep in mind that these are averages only and that specimens vary widely depending on variety, locale, soil and climate.

Contents (in nitrilosides, per 100 grams of food):

high = above 500 mg
medium = between 100-500 mg
low = below 100 mg

Fruits blackberry (domestic) blackberry (wild) boysenberry chokecherry crabapple, wild apple cranberry lingonberry currant elderberry gooseberry huckleberry loganberry mulberry quince raspberry strawberry Seeds apple seeds apricot seed buckwheat cherry seed flax seeds millet nectarine seed peach seed pear seeds plum/prune seed squash seeds strawberry Beans black bean black-eyed pea fava bean garbanzo bean, chickpea green pea kidney bean lentil lima bean (U.S.) lima bean (Burma) mung bean Tubers cassava sweet potato yam Nuts (all raw) bitter almond cashew nut macadamia nut Sprouts alfalfa sprout bamboo shoot fava sprout garbanzo bean/chickpea sprout mung bean sprout Leaves alfalfa leaf beet tops eucalyptus leaf spinach leaf watercress leaf

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