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Originally Posted by crazy banana
Has anybody ever researched the neurotoxic alkaloids in Cherimoya's? Annonacin is related to Parkinson's. The occasional fruit might be OK, but 18 pounds seems that you are playing with your health.
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Relation is not relevant. For example, Niacin is related to nicotine (in cigarettes) and Nicotine can be oxidised to nicotinic acid (niacin) Oh, you can get pellagra by not having enough niacin (B3)
But your question may be easy to answer. If researchers went to several annona plantations to document a possible very local rise in incidence of Parkinsons... then ask parkinsons patients if they consumed a lot of annona. Since annona are relatively uncommon fruits it should be relatively easy to correlate these two data points into something tangible.
Anyway...
Anona are being investigated for cancer related therapies, but Carambola can be detrimental to people with kidney problems, then again coffee is suspected to slow the onset of or make one immune to alzheimers, and hot peppers in Mexico are thought to prevent cancer of the stomach and GI tract. Then there's red yeast rice (and niacin) with strong evidence to lower cholesterol. And of course all those bananas and other sweet fruits HAVE to put weight on you, leading to...
I think it's about time we slow down looking for excuses to not have something in a diet or eating a magic bullet for prevention of disease. Eat what's good. Even a whopper on occasion :-)