Foods for liver health
What APEX holds on the table for liver health: 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
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Herbs & Spices
Sassafras Root Sassafras albidum — the aromatic root dug for spring tonics and the original root beer… Dandelion Dandelion — the spring bitter green foraged by Black Southern Americans for liver support… Dandelion Root The liver tonic of Southern folk medicine — dandelion root supports liver detoxification… Sarsaparilla Root Smilax species — the thorny greenbrier vine whose root and tender spring shoots were used… Milk Thistle Thistle plant whose seeds contain silymarin — the most hepatoprotective natural compound…
Vegetables
Cabbage Microgreens The young seedling of cabbage — sweet, crunchy, and mild, with the brassica detox… Florida Broadleaf Mustard Green Florida Broadleaf — the wide, smooth, fast-growing mustard green of Southern gardens. Burdock Root Long root vegetable with documented liver-supportive, prebiotic, and blood-purifying… Dandelion Greens Deeply bitter greens with serrated leaves. Consumed cooked or raw. Radicchio Deep red-purple leaves with white veins. Very bitter flavor from lactucopicrin… Endive Belgian endive: pale, tightly furled, cylindrical head with minimal bitterness… Escarole Broad, slightly wavy leaves with a mild bitterness (less bitter than radicchio or endive… Mustard Microgreens The baby seedling of the Southern mustard green, all the fiery bite of a grown mustard… Radish Small, peppery root vegetable. Eaten raw. One cup sliced provides 29% DV vitamin C, 10%… Pigeon Pea Leaves The pigeon pea shrub — producing the gungo peas of Jamaican rice and peas — is a…
Rice, Grains & Starch
Watermelon Radish A large radish that looks like a watermelon in cross-section — green rind, rose-red… Elephant Foot Yam Amorphophallus paeoniifolius — called 'suran' in Hindi, 'elephant yam' in English. Burdock Root Burdock root — the traditional 'blood purifier' of Black Southern and Appalachian herbal… Black Spanish Radish A dense, sharp, black-skinned winter radish far hotter than the spring table radish.
Fruit
Otaheite Gooseberry Otaheite gooseberry is the Caribbean version of a secret — the tart little clusters of…
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