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Buck268

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Well I'm sitting here kind of watching Man Vs. Wild on the side and I hear the ubiquitous B. Grills claim that pine needles have 5x the vitamin C of a lemon.

Now, this may be vary true, but if it is true what species does it entail? Are there any that need be avoided? hmm, I wonder where one would even look for this info?
 
How many lemons does one eat to get their daily dose of vitamin C, anyway ?

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http://zetatalk.com/food/tfood07p.htm

Maybe true, but I tried pine needle tea when I was a Boy Scout and that stuff leaves a little to be desired in the refreshment department. However in a survival situation, I'd scarff it down. By the way, I think Les mentioned this on one of the Survivorman shows for spruce tea.
 
That's funny....after reading this I googled "pine needle tea" and the top few returns said that pregnant women shouldn't drink it. Also, if the water is allowed to boil, the Vitamin C is reduced.

I would think that both of those points would have been worth mentioning in the show - but as we all know, the show was never intended to convey useful information...
 
"Stalking the Healthful Herbs", Euell Gibbons ,1966 Mentions this and tables show ascorbic acid content of other plants.Pine leaves can be made into a tea. The word Adirondack means 'tree eater'. The inner bark can be eaten also. In the SW the Pinon Pine yields delicious nuts .Pine nuts are often found in Italian and other Mediterranean dishes.
 
I just tuned in for the last 10 minutes of the Everglades episode to show my wife who this guy is. Bear points to a supposed claw mark on the trunk of a tree and says it was made by a black bear. HA! Look at that thing. It was clearly carved into the tree by someone with a knife. Don't these idiots know that there are people out there that can see thru this crap?! (And no, Bear diddn't do a voiceover stating that the claw mark was a simulation!)

What a tool!

-- FLIX
 
Claw marks ? That reminds me of a program about a beluga whale .The you whale was stranded on the beach at low tide and had no recourse but to wait for high tide.The narrator talked at length about the great trauma this young whale was going through. I looked at the whale and on it's back were obvious scars, claw marks of a polar bear !!! No mention of the claw marks and the fact that the beluga had already seen some major trauma !!
 
Pine needle tea does have a high vitamin C content. You need to steep the tea, not boil it. I prefer white pine needles. You want to look for the pine needles that are bunched in groups of 5 individual needles. This is the easiest way to identifty W-H-I-T-E (5 Letters) pine.

I've eaten the inner bark of White pine and it is one of the best emergency survival foods. I'd rank it right up there with Cattail.

Hope this helps,

Kev
 
Buck268 said:
Well I'm sitting here kind of watching Man Vs. Wild on the side and I hear the ubiquitous B. Grills claim that pine needles have 5x the vitamin C of a lemon.
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There's obviously a lot of bull on that show, but this is not it. The amount of vitamin C something contains is not much related to how sour it tastes. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an acid, sure; but it's not the only source of sourness, which can be caused by any acid whatsoever. Most of the sourness in lemons is caused by citric acid, not ascorbic.

As an example, ounce for ounce, strawberries have more vitamin C than lemons. Kiwi have more than twice. Parsley (uncooked), nearly four times. A more common-sense example would be vinegar, though sour, contains no vitamin C, because it is all acetic acid.
 
The fact you need to have a compromized diet for weeks and months before vit c is an issue means you have bigger things to worry about in the mean time.

Skam
 
FLIX said:
I just tuned in for the last 10 minutes of the Everglades episode to show my wife who this guy is. Bear points to a supposed claw mark on the trunk of a tree and says it was made by a black bear. HA! Look at that thing. It was clearly carved into the tree by someone with a knife. Don't these idiots know that there are people out there that can see thru this crap?! (And no, Bear diddn't do a voiceover stating that the claw mark was a simulation!)

What a tool!

-- FLIX
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Do they even have black bears in the Everglades?
 
If someone knows otherwise please dispute me but to the best of my recollection all pines may be used for tea. As well as spruce, balsam and hemlock (the tree not the flowering plant Cedars are used but I beleive they do contains some toxicities. The main evergreen that should be avoided is Yew as it is extremely poisonous. And I have heard that some native cultures used Juniper to bring on sterility.
 
FLIX said:
I just tuned in for the last 10 minutes of the Everglades episode to show my wife who this guy is. Bear points to a supposed claw mark on the trunk of a tree and says it was made by a black bear. HA! Look at that thing. It was clearly carved into the tree by someone with a knife. Don't these idiots know that there are people out there that can see thru this crap?! (And no, Bear diddn't do a voiceover stating that the claw mark was a simulation!)

What a tool!

-- FLIX
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I noticed that as well. The cuts on the tree were VERY clean and straight.
 
Snow said:
I noticed that as well. The cuts on the tree were VERY clean and straight.
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The claw marks that I've seen on trees were a series of vertical scratches. This was TRIANGULAR claw shapes followed by a large "paw" shape!!!! :eek: Kind of like Yogi running thru a cabin wall and leaving a Yogi-shaped hole behind him! :rolleyes:

-- FLIX
 
yep theres not many but they are there, sadly most are not afraid of humans because they get fed by tourists.
 
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