Have you had your Vitamin B17 today?

by Dennis Pace
(Wanship, Utah, USA)

Gifts of Life, Miracles, and Seeds of Love:

A Gift That Keeps On Giving

I recently by accident discovered something very exciting. I got it as a gift for my family and myself for Christmas. First of all it is inexpensive! It is healthy! It can be used as food storage. It has multiple uses: it can replenish itself (you would never run out), it can be grown in 65 days, and it can be prepared in many different recipes. It is mentioned as a possible food to prevent cancer.

What is this amazing seed? It is commonly called "bird seed." I know what you are thinking, "he really has gone crazy."

I purchased a 50-pound sack of small wing bird seed for .25 cents per pound and when I opened the bag at home I found inside MILLET. When I realized what millet is I renamed it MIRACLE SEED, or MANNA FROM HEAVEN. Millet was once more widely used in human nutrition than wheat. Wheat seed contains little or no nitriloside, but millet has quite a lot. It's vitamin B-17 or amygdalin. Other foods that contain vitamin B-17 are: bitter almonds, MILLET, wheat grass, and lima beans, and more.

The diet of primitive man and most fruit-eating animals was very rich in nitrilosides. They regularly ate the seeds (and kernels) of all fruits, since these seeds are rich in protein, polyunsaturated fats, and other nutrients. Seeds also contain as much as 2 per cent or more nitriloside. There are scores of other major foods naturally, or normally, very rich in nitriloside.

What is nitriloside? Vitamin B-17 (nitriloside, amygdaline) is a designation proposed to include a large group of water-soluble, essentially non-toxic, sugary, compounds found in over 800 plants, many of which are edible. These factors are collectively known as Beta-cyanophoric glycosides.

Vitamin B17 is found in most all fruit seeds such as the apple, peach, cherry, orange, nectarine and apricot. It is found in some beans and many grasses such as wheat grass. The hard wooden pit in the middle of the peach is not supposed to be thrown away. In fact, the wooden shell is strong armor protecting one of the most important foods known to man, the seed. It is one of the main courses of food in cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Hunzas the Abkhasians and many more.


Why is B-17 important? Because in the presence of an enzyme called "beta-glucosidase" (this enzyme is found only in cancer cells), chemicals in B-17 are released which kill the cancer cells, without harming normal cells. For me that is the only reason I need to include millet seed in my daily food.

When I think of eating bird seed, I am reminded of the song from Mary Poppins: Feed the Birds.

"Feed the birds," that's what she cries,
While overhead, her birds fill the skies.

All around the cathedral the saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares.
Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares.

Though her words are simple and few,
Listen, listen, she's calling to you:
"Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag."

It is my hope for each and every one of you that this new year will be filled with Miracles, Gifts that keep on Giving, and Seeds of Love.

Written and sent with all my love, Dennis

P.S. If you love seeds like I do click to read another article: Wisdom of the Ages: Seeds Can Be More Valuable Than Gold or Money in the Bank - and More Fun