Benzoic Acid (why not Cranberries)

Fresh Cranberries (not recommended—they naturally contain high amounts of benzoic acid)

Sodium benzoate gets used as preservatives, not only is benzoic acid in cranberries but it get added as preservatives in other foods. (The benzoates exist poisonous and have actually resulted in death.)

The human body metabolizes most acids in fruits very well. Benzoic acid, tannic acid, oxalic acid and prussic acid, none of which are free acids and all of which are rare in fruits, are among those acids that give humans metabolic problems. Humans handle citric, tartaric and malic acids very well. These are the primary fruit acids. Perhaps the occasions when fruit acids give problems occur when acid fruits such as lemons, strawberries, pineapples or grapefruit are eaten along with sweet fruit such as bananas, dates, figs, raisins, persimmons or non-fruit fare.

Cranberries

Peak season, October through December. Cranberries get no recommended for use as food because they contain considerable quantities of malic and benzoic acids. Benzoic acid is a white, crystalline acid used in perfumes, dentifrices and germicides, and to season tobacco. Cranberries cannot be enjoyably used in their natural, raw state unless considerable amounts of sweetening are used, or unless combined with other sweeter fruits, such as oranges. Cranberries are classified as acid fruit, but are best excluded from the 801010 / Natural Hygiene / High Carb Low Fat Raw Vegan.

The medical administration of acids, such as salicylic acid (in aspirin), benzoic acid, boric acid, sulfuric acid, etc., leads to a dangerous loss of bases(alkaline), for these acids get rendered harmless and subsequently eliminated only after being combined with alkaline elements. Hydrochloric acid, prescribed by physicians in supposed gastric hypo-acidity, also leaches the body of its bases and aids in producing acidosis.
Free acetic acid, as found in vinegar also, when consumed , lead to symptoms of acid poisoning. Even more injurious to health than alcohol. The body gets called upon to sacrifice its bases to neutralize the acid, while it has a particularly destructive effect upon the red corpuscles and produces anemia. The skeleton changes characteristic of osteomalacia and osteoporosis occur after a time of such toxic symptoms setting in.

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Comment by BellaMariposa on October 27, 2012 at 12:28pm: Thanks so much for sharing this. I would like to know the reference of this information was it an article? Wow, cranberries preserved with benzoic acid, who knew? I guess Monty Pyton was right when he said all I ask of food is that it doesn' t harm me.

Comment by Tobias on October 26, 2012 at 1:29am: Interesting to read. I never like the taste of cranberries anyway, my palette was probably warning me.

So now I'm left with the question, why do people and doctors advice drinking a lot of cranberry juice when someone has a bladder infection? Are we rinsing it out with poison?

Comment by Mango Madness on October 25, 2012 at 4:42am: I was just watching this gal on youtube who has a smoothie everyday that consists of half a bag of frozen cranberries, tons of water and only a few pieces of other fruit. She did a grocery haul video and she had four large bags of cranberries along with two bags of fresh. She said that would last her the WEEK. O_o Maybe I should link her this.