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Default Is colored food good to health?

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:50:04 -0700 (PDT), merryb >
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>On Sep 27, 2:24*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> "Sock" > wrote in message
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>> ...
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>> > The question is a little ambiguous. It is accepted among many people that
>> > natural colours are a good indicator of higher nutritional values, for
>> > instance, most orange coloured vegetables are healthier than white. Sweet
>> > potato is healthier than an ordinary white potato. Lots of
>> > retinol/carotene for vitamin A.

>>
>> > I eat a lot of orange coloured vegetables, lots of green, lots of yellow,
>> > lots of red/mauve (beets) but not much in the way of white. I try to avoid
>> > all food that has any form of artificial colouring added.

>>
>> Why can't you eat white? *What does it do to you? *I have no problem with
>> bean spouts. *I do love radishes but they give me weird dreams. *Cauliflower
>> is a goitrogen. *Would you call potatoes white? *I like rutabagas and
>> turnips. *Also jicama. *But are those white? *Or just white inside? *Fennel
>> is good. *I don't care for parsnips. *What else is white?

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>Didn't you know that radishes are hallocinigens?


Only those long thick oriental ones like daikon will give a gal a good
hallucination.