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  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The Raw Food School : learn about raw food and its life changing benefits / Raw Food School.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • The FRESH Network : Fruitarian & Raw Energy Support & Help : for intuitive raw food eating / Susie Miller.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Springtime glory : distinctive aromatic flavours / Compass Group.
  • Springtime glory : distinctive aromatic flavours / Compass Group.
  • Springtime glory : distinctive aromatic flavours / Compass Group.
  • Springtime glory : distinctive aromatic flavours / Compass Group.
  • Raw onion
  • Raw onion, illustration
  • Onion ring, illustration
  • Raw potato
  • Onion ring
  • French fry (chip)
  • Raw ginger, SEM
  • French fry (chip)
  • Raw ginger, SEM
  • Raw potato
  • Raw ginger, illustration
  • Broccoli floret
  • Crystallised ginger, SEM