Black Currant: The Forbidden Fruit

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Dr. Mindy A. Curry, ND Passion For Healing Naturopathic

Күн бұрын

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@gardeningplus7271 3 жыл бұрын

I have them in my backyard and love them the red one too.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly this year my bush ripened right when the heat wave hit home. One day all almost ready, then after one 116F day, all became very dry raisins on the stem.

@annmoses654 2 жыл бұрын

So interesting! I always wondered about the currant ban. The unholy union of blueberry and juniper lol

@CarolinaOmaSteph Жыл бұрын

Sadly it is still illegal in a few states. My best friend wants to grow some but she can't because of the law on her state. She cannot order online to ship directly either. Hopefully those states will reverse the law there. Awesome video and information. Thank you.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 Жыл бұрын

I guess they have reasons…

@boogiemcsploogie 3 жыл бұрын

Been going down the currant rabbit hole, now I'm here

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 3 жыл бұрын

🐇

@jackhuffman9313 2 жыл бұрын

I am just now learning about this, I’ll start growing asap

@ChrisZ70 3 жыл бұрын

I'm eating real black currants (not the ones sold in markets as "currants", which are actually a kind of raisins) as I watch this. I order them from Northwest Wild Foods.

@PerchamTalay 3 жыл бұрын

grew up eating from our home grown all my life in Karachi lol. I love them so much.

@randallhesse5011 2 жыл бұрын

The health benefits of black currants seems to be like the benefits of Pau d'arco bark. Pau d'arco grows in the Amazon rainforest. It has a lot of good health benefits. One of which is a anti-fungal. It makes fungus not be able to grow on the trunks of the tree it comes from. So, perhaps white pine trees have to have black currants growing all around the trunks of the white pine trees to keep them from getting fungus. Maybe cause and effect were mis- rationalized.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 2 жыл бұрын

In this case the white pine blister rust (WPBR) is caused by the non-native aggressive fungal pathogen Cronartium ribicola introduced in 1909, which has killed millions of pines and has nearly exterminated western white pines specifically. This rust pathogens requires two botanically unrelated hosts to complete it’s life cycle. C. ribicola normally infects gooseberry and currants, however, the introduced European black currant (R. nigrum) is especially susceptible to the disease. As a result, the import, cultivation, sale and planting of black currant was outlawed under a federal quarantine and eradication ban enacted in the 1920s. Since then cultivars that resist this rust have been created, but recently they have found this fungus adapting and infecting even the anti-rust cultivars. Nature is complex and not always convenient for the needs of humans. Plants get sick too, and these have helped harbor very bad fungus that kill forests. ag.umass.edu/landscape/fact-sheets/white-pine-blister-rust-ribes-species

@positiveandhealthy2728 4 жыл бұрын

You are such an inspiration! I love these vids, thank you! 💖

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, thank you so much! I love making these video and sharing them with the world. And I especially love getting wonderful comments like yours. ❤️

@jenniferrush8231 3 жыл бұрын

If you put it in the ground Inthink your yield would be easily 10x for the size of bush you have. My clusters are easily 50+ berries on a 4 year old bush. 2 yrs in ground.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 3 жыл бұрын

That makes sense. I haven’t figured out where it’s forever home is yet. Need to shift some shrubbery around…

@estrellaestrella4660 2 жыл бұрын

is it safe to eat black currant seed oil for ever, I have "Hydro eye" plan base ....for dry eyes. Can you help me to find out if this is safe to eat for ever? Thank you so much for your time.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think that long term safety studies of black currant seed oil have been done. It is generally considered safe when used in culinary or normal medicinal amounts. There are few reports of adverse events at normal doses. Some people may get GI upset. If you have problems with blood clotting and are taking blood thinners, or if you bruise or bleed easily, high prolonged doses could increase bleeding via blood thinning potential. Black currants are a safe food. Serious side effects are not currently expected from reasonable doses.

@Diogenes-II 3 жыл бұрын

What was that machine that had the black pepper? Why do you add black pepper -- to increase bioavailability? Some people are allergic to black pepper though. I just ordered some black currant from New Zealand. I heard that's the best.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 3 жыл бұрын

That was just an electric pepper grinder. I wouldn’t recommend one at this point. Lovely pepper grinds, but they tend to stop working after a year or two, which is just too much consumer trash for my taste. I added pepper for flavor, as this was to be a meat sauce. Black pepper does indeed help increase absorption of many vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.

@maragrace820 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I get seeds of the wild variety?

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t have a specific source for wild black currant seeds. I purchased mine as a potted plant at a local nursery. I see that there are vendors on Amazon selling these, but I can’t personally vouch for them.

@MuhammadFadil-ph7uz 3 жыл бұрын

can we eat it directly?

@teaartist6455 3 жыл бұрын

Yup, you can, though black currants specifically do tend to be quite sour at first but become much sweeter than the red ones so you may want to taste-test them as they take a bit of time after turning black to actually become ripe. All of them can be eaten unprepared, though, they're not exactly prohibitively sour.

@dr.mindya.curryndpassionfo7590 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. They have a very distinctive flavor…