Vegetables

- Vegetables contain more pentosanes and hexosanes, which are partly bacterially decomposed in the colon, and inhibit digestion. Brussel sprouts, beetroot, parsley, celeriac, kale, broccoli and peas contain most of these special carbohydrates.

- Some vegetables contain a lot of oxalic acid, which binds to minerals easily. Mangold, rhubarb, spinach, purslane, bamboo shoots and beetroot contain most of these special carbohydrates.

- Cabbages (like broccoli and cauliflower), radish and garden cress contain glucosinolates, which can originate mildly toxic (to the thyroid) thiocyanate.

- Onions contain a lot of mutagenic quercetine (a flavonoid), and (like garlic) dialkyloligosulphides, inhibiting iodide absorption.

- Potato, sweet potato, cassava and bamboo shoots contain cyanogenics, and these originate cyanides, which have to be transformed into less toxic thiocyanates.

- Mushrooms easily absorb damaging cadmium and arsenium, and contain alkaloids which inhibit digestion and cause gripes. Many people have no problem at all eating mushrooms however.

- Lamb's lettuce contains caffeic acid, which easily binds nutrients.

- Rhubarb can contain mutagenic emodine.

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