Posted by Jinna on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Celery-Juice-tp4034195p4034964.html

I hear about this oxalate story, but I sincerely do not buy it.

If you read Buhner's books, who read literally thousands of papers on plants, you wouldn't mind about oxalates either.

He said that one plant USUALLY has HUNDREDS of chemicals, if not THOUSANDS of chemicals.

Yes, ONE plant.

Now researchers isolate one chemical and make tests and discover OFTEN that the chemical is, for example, cancerigenous.

He forgets to include the other hundreds of chemicals that evolved with that plant for millions of years, and that MAY have some function in the ecossystem - the plant is eaten by other animals, right?

Buhner said that no single chemical in a plant work like a chemical in a lab. The plant produces chemicals to protect itself against predators, infections, etc, but it also produce ANTIDOTES not to harm the animals who eat them (if they want to be food for these animals, I mean, if they want the animals to transport its seeds somewhere through stools, for example).

So, really, unless an intelligent researcher comes and analyzes at least, dozens of chemicals of the same plant and its INTERACTIONS not only IN VITRO but IN VIVO too, I would ignore such comments.

You can be sure that any plant has many chemicals, that if isolate, will be considered cancerigenous. Any plant you eat daily, probably will have dozens of chemicals that will be considered that.

It's just that no one analyzed the hundreds of chemicals in carrots or radish yet. But wait until they do: they'll come out with red alarm, telling you to avoid all that!!