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📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.htmlIn 1539, Hernando de Soto's soldiers tasted something in the Tennessee River valley they had never encountered before. Every explorer who followed wrote about it. John Smith documented it at Jamestown. For 62 years, it held an official listing in the United States Pharmacopoeia as a recognized clinical treatment. It has more than double the antioxidant power of a blueberry. It grows wild and free across 26 states. In 1877, the USDA imported 5,000 grafted Japanese persimmon trees and planted them in California. They funded the orchards, backed the cooperatives, and sent their own plant explorer to Asia for more. The native American persimmon, the one this continent had eaten for thousands of years, received nothing. By 1930, California had 98,000 bearing Asian trees. The original had been left to the roadsides. The fruit never changed. Its antioxidant score is still double the blueberry. Its anti-tumor compound still triggers programmed cell death in melanoma cells in peer-reviewed laboratory conditions. It survives freezes that kill the Asian variety. It asks for nothing. It cannot be owned. And almost no one alive today has tasted it. 📚 Sources: - Gorinstein, Shela, et al. "Comparative Content of Main Antioxidants, Phenolics, and Retinols in Some Fruits." Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 49.11 (2001): 5030-5045.- Ding, Huifang, et al. "Selective Induction of Apoptosis of Human Melanoma Cells by Betulinic Acid." Clinical Cancer Research 9.1 (2003): 44-49.- Kim, Young-Jun, et al. "Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Diospyros virginiana Leaf and Bark Extracts." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19.8 (2018): 2304.- United States Pharmacopoeia. 1st through 7th editions, 1820-1882. Washington: United States Pharmacopoeial Convention.- United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Pomology. "Report of the Pomologist." Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, 1877. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.- Hershey, D.R. "USDA Plant Explorer Frank N. Meyer and His Introduction of the Japanese Persimmon." HortScience 31.6 (1996): 1065.- Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. New York: Amistad Press, 2017.- Young, James Harvey. "The Persistence of Medical Quackery in America." American Scientist 60.3 (1972): 318-326.- Watkins, John V. "The American Persimmon." Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 64 (1951): 188-191.- Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Ethnobotany. Portland: Timber Press, 1998.- Meader, Elwyn M. "Persimmon Culture in New Hampshire." Proceedings of the Northern Nut Growers Association 42 (1951): 62-67. #forgottenfoods #FoodSovereignty #LostCrops #ancienthealing #ancientwisdom #homesteading