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Originally Posted by bencelest
Now I am having a 2nd thought eating them anonas.
How can it be when they taste so good. But then it costs so much $5 a lb is its drawback so that I don't eat that much.
It is just like a moth going through the flame. Huh!
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It is a terrible irony that one of the world's best tasting fruits (the soursop, aka guanabana, graviola) contains such a terrible drug. The pulp of one fruit contains about 30 mg. Natives who eat the wild fruits on a semi-regular basis are incapacitated by age 40. Natives who eat the fruits and drink tea from the leaves are in trouble by age 30.
The amount of annonacins in the fruit pulp of other Annonas in the Americas is not well-studied, in part do to pressure from growers. As an example of this, a study performed by two Peruvian researchers on Cherimoya was published in India and not circulated.
Here is a frightening fact: 1,000s of people in the U.S. are taking the unregulated herbal Graviola extract on a daily basis for cancer prevention in dosages of 600 mg and higher.