Currants: is it a good food?

[Roman]

Hi everybody.

I've read here (http://www.youngerthanyourage.com/13/plants.htm) that beans (and currants) contain 4 to 140 times as much lignin (indigestible aromatic alcohol polymers), than fruit averagely does. Lignins easily bind to cholesterol and minerals (and N-nitrosocompounds).

So it isn't, I suppose, such a good food.

I'd like also to know the exact meaning of the word "currants" because in Italian it means two different things.

This (http://www.alcasoft.com/bostonmountain/ ... rrants.jpg) or that (http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/152644b.jpg) ???

In Italian the first is called "ribes" and the second "uva passa"(dried currants).

What does Wai mean?

Thank you and sorry for my English...

[RRM]

Hi Roman,
welcome to the board

currants... So it isn't, I suppose, such a good food.

Indeed. They are also very high in specific (bad) pentosanes and hexosanes.

I'd like also to know the exact meaning of the word "currants" because in Italian it means two different things.

They are dried berries of the Ribes family; red-currants and white-currants (Ribes rubrum L.) and black-currants (Ribes nirgum L.)
These berries are actually ment for birds.

This (http://www.alcasoft.com/bostonmountain/ ... rrants.jpg) or that (http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/152644b.jpg) ???

The first link indeed contains a picture of the non-dried version of those berries, I believe. I cannot access the second link.

Thank you and sorry for my English...

Your English is perfectly clear!

[Roman]

I cannot access the second link.

OOPS... I'm sorry.

I hope these images would go:


or
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These we call in Italy "uva passa" and it is nothing else but grapes, dried grapes.

I think in English it is called "raisin", but also "DRIED CURRANTS".

So Wai didn't mean "DRIED CURRANTS", it's ok?

Are there any problems of pentosanes and hexosanes or LIGNIN with other berries like Bilberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries and in general with other fruits?

Thanks a lot.


Marco

[RRM]

Raisins and dried currants are not the same.
Raisins (pics) are okay, which are dried grapes, indeed.
Dried currants are exactly what the name says: not dried grapes, but dried currants, which are berries of the Ribes family. Dried currants are dryer and harder.

Whereas (dried) currants are not okay regarding lignins and special hexosanes and pentosanes, bolberries are not okay either.
Blackberries, Raspberries and Strawberries, and other fruits in general are okay though.