Re: Ripe vs. unripe fruits

[Guest guest]

>

> Am I correct in thinking that all fruits are supposed to be eaten only

> thoroughly ripe because unripe fruits contain too much starch? Or is it

> just bananas?

> Also, what about winter squash? I think technically they're fruit. I cut

> open a delicata squash the other day and thought it had been picked before

> fully ripe, but I wasn't sure. The skin was greenish, the flesh was yellow

> with a green tinge, the seeds looked mature...I cooked it and tasted it, and

> it wasn't sweet at all like a delicata should be. So I wasn't sure it was

> ok to feed to my daughter. (I ate some and gave some to the dog...)

> TIA.

> Kayla

>

Kayla,

Unripe fruit gives normal people the runs! Elaine compared the use of green

coconut water

such as that used on the BED diet with eating unripe green apples (I don't mean

Granny

s) and wondered why on earth anyone with gastric challenges would want to

use it.

Carol F.

SCD 6 years

[Guest guest]

Hi Kayla,

I assume all fruit should be basically ripe. The only things that really should

be REALLY ripe are bananas. Other fruits, like peaches, pears, berries,

avacados... might be less digestible and less flavorful if not all the way ripe.

But, I'm not sure Elaine ever had any " rule " about this. Just common sense.

On the squash.... it would seem that if the seeds looked mature, it was probably

ripe. I wonder sometimes if the particular variety that was grown might make a

difference... or the growing conditions, how long it was stored, who knows. I've

had some butternut squashes that were just pithy and flavorless... even though

they looked ripe on the outside. Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw.

Patti

Ripe vs. unripe fruits

Am I correct in thinking that all fruits are supposed to be eaten only

thoroughly ripe because unripe fruits contain too much starch? Or is it

just bananas?

Also, what about winter squash? I think technically they're fruit. I

cut

open a delicata squash the other day and thought it had been picked before

fully ripe, but I wasn't sure. The skin was greenish, the flesh was yellow

with a green tinge, the seeds looked mature...I cooked it and tasted it, and

it wasn't sweet at all like a delicata should be. So I wasn't sure it was

ok to feed to my daughter. (I ate some and gave some to the dog...)

TIA.

Kayla

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com