Foods for lowering cancer risk
What APEX holds on the table for lowering cancer risk: the foods it leads with, each with where it comes from and why it is ours. Not a treatment plan — the food, and the reason it is on the list.
Compiled by APEX Legacy from published research and documented food
history, under the editorial direction of
Jonathan Jackson, Founder .
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Vegetables
Cabbage Microgreens The young seedling of cabbage — sweet, crunchy, and mild, with the brassica detox… African Spider Plant Cleome gynandra grows as a wild plant in agricultural fields across Africa, self-seeding… Georgia Southern Collard Georgia Southern — the big, cabbage-blue, crumpled heirloom collard of the Deep South. Florida Broadleaf Mustard Green Florida Broadleaf — the wide, smooth, fast-growing mustard green of Southern gardens. Northern Smothered Cabbage with Smoked Turkey Cabbage slow-smothered with smoked turkey, onion, and a little broth until silky. Sukuma Wiki Sukuma wiki — Swahili for 'stretch the week,' the everyday East African collard chopped… Mizuna Mizuna — the feathery, deeply serrated Japanese mustard green with a gentle peppery bite. Northern Greens with Smoked Turkey A mixed pot of greens slow-cooked with smoked turkey until tender, the pot likker saved… Sweet Potato Leaves The leaves of the sweet potato plant — a West African primary cooking green, more… Gomen Ethiopian-style collard greens — the same collard the South knows, but sauteed quickly… Mustard Greens with Hot Water Cornbread Peppery mustard greens slow-cooked in seasoned pot likker, served with crisp pan-fried… Mixed Greens Collard, mustard, and turnip greens cooked down together in one pot so the flavors marry… Watercress Spicy, peppery aquatic green. Gram for gram, the most nutrient-dense food in the USDA… Broccoli Rabe Leafy green with small florets and stems. More bitter than broccoli. Brussels Sprouts Compact bud resembling tiny cabbage. One cup cooked provides 124% DV vitamin K, 81% DV… Kale Microgreens The young seedling of kale — milder and sweeter than the mature leaf, with the same… Matsutake Mushroom One of the most expensive foods on earth. Also one of the most studied for immune… Soursop Leaf (Graviola) Soursop leaf, the medicinal preparation of Annona muricata, carries one of the most…
Rice, Grains & Starch
Purple Yam (Ube) The purple-fleshed variety of Dioscorea alata — the same species as water yam but… Watermelon Radish A large radish that looks like a watermelon in cross-section — green rind, rose-red… African Red Rice African red rice — the 3,500-year-old indigenous West African rice domesticated by the… Purple Top Turnip The standard Southern turnip — purple-shouldered white globe — pulled for the root and…
Fruit
Muscadine Grapes The muscadine is the grape that belongs to this land. Not European, not imported — this… Pawpaw The pawpaw is the proof that tropical tastes have always been native to Black American… Gac Fruit The lycopene king. Gac fruit contains 70 times the lycopene of raw tomatoes — not a typo…
Desserts & Sweets
Blackberry Cobbler Wild blackberries gathered from the summer brambles, baked under a sweet biscuit or…
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