Re: Cooking Fruits

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Elaine says in an email : " ...The sugars in fruit are contained

> within a cell surrounded by a " fence " cell wall of cellulose which

> is rigid. When they are given raw, often the milking action of the

> small intestine cannot sufficiently milk out the sugars because of

> the rigid cell wall and they are passed on to the lower bowel to

> feed the microbes. By softening the cell wall with cooking, we will

> avoid this... "

Very interesting. I would think a factor here might be how well one's

small intestine was working, or not.