Wow, I should have stayed home! So much fun reading all your postings.
How fascinating about apples! Interestingly enough the only fruit that I ever mix with my vegetables to make juice is apples and then occasionally pears. None of the tropicals or the berries. I'd love to know what kind attributes apples have that make them different.
Ok, so why aren't I a breatharian yet.... that's exactly what I want to know!!!
(that's me having a fit if you couldn't figure it out) I am tired of waiting for evolution. It takes so very long.... and also... I was one of those twinky eating carnivors so long growing up that it might have done me impenatrable permament cellular neanderthalism. (say that 10 times fast).
Someone from ages ago told me to drink my food and eat my drinks. I said, I'm not a cow. I'm not designed for that. All my instincts make me eat more like my dog! Woof it down!
Do you really believe that in order to get the nutrtients out of greens they have to be total mush sloshing in our mouths for awhile before hand? Is that because of the amylase in our saliva? We make amylase other places along the way too I believe. There is definitely enzymes in those greens so that they can sit in our stomachs and break down. I have my doubts that all those greens over the years that I ate with my poor wimpy modern little jaw not good enough for much more than jabbering never did me any good. I felt them digest.
Let's get scatalogical shall we? When I first started raw when I ate so many greens my poopies did turn green. I didn't think they all got used up, but over the years the green color went away unless I supplemented big time with greens to the point of overdosing. I can eat all the chard and kale I can fit in my little bunny mouth and nothing on the other end would denote such an extravagance. I think I get those nutrients, I really really do!
Oh, yes, my vitamix is definitely better than chewing - but then - many hard core raw foodist don't believe in blending anything. That's not the way nature made it! You tend to eat too much when it's all made into a drink and yes, humans don't normally chew their drinks and therefore the drink doesn't get that lovely amalase washy washy in the mouth predigestion.
Now, when I said "designed to eat fruit" I mean our hands, our nails our teeth and our digestive tracts.... fruit is our perfect food in that sense. We do not at this point have the jaws for grinding - so.... an argument could be that we are evolutionarily (is that a word?) moving away from needing to eat greens.... since I am "the devil's advocate"
I would say that if the mouth fits - wear the fruit.
Yes, if we are going to be chimps then we also do need to occasionally in angry hostility to attack other monkeys, kill them and eat them.
If I have to be almost a monkey and eat greens do I need to be eat monkeys?
Now, now, that's going too far greenbunny!!! Cut it out and play nice!
Has anyone seen Bernadette Peters sing the greens song from the musical "Into the Woods". She's a witch singing about someone stealing her greens. Oh, simply fabulous!!!!!
Greenbunny
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To being the black sheep!
can be quite satisfying not to mention spiritually enlightening 
