Foods for prostate health
What APEX holds on the table for prostate 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
Jonathan Jackson, Founder .
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Seafood
Blue Crab The Chesapeake feast. Blue crab with Old Bay is an entire cultural vocabulary.
Fruit
Bradford Watermelon A long, dark-green Southern heirloom watermelon with intensely sweet, tender red flesh… Surinam Cherry Small, 8-ribbed cherry-like fruit in stages of red to deep scarlet to near-black when… Gac Fruit The lycopene king. Gac fruit contains 70 times the lycopene of raw tomatoes — not a typo… Pomegranate Punicalagins — among the most potent antioxidant compounds documented, with 3x the…
Drinks
Watermelon Seed Tea Black watermelon seeds, crushed and boiled into a mild tea long used to flush the kidneys… Nettle Leaf Tea Iron-rich leaf tea with natural antihistamine activity, anti-inflammatory compounds, and…
Vegetables
Arkansas Traveler Tomato A reliable rose-pink tomato that sets fruit through brutal Southern heat and humidity… Cherokee Purple Tomato A deep dusky-rose tomato with green shoulders, rich smoky-sweet flavor, and a long… Mortgage Lifter Tomato A giant, mild, meaty pink beefsteak — fruit can top two pounds. Black Krim Tomato A dusky brown-red tomato with greenish shoulders and a rich, almost salty, smoky-sweet… German Johnson Tomato A big, meaty pink-red beefsteak with low acid and few seeds, beloved across the Carolinas… Brandywine Tomato A big, rosy-pink beefsteak with potato-leaf foliage and intense, complex, sweet-tart… Rutgers Tomato A round, deep-red, balanced tomato bred to do everything — slice, can, and cook — well. Tomatoes Tomatoes anchor Southern stews, smothered dishes, and summer gardens — cooking makes them… African Potato (Hypoxis hemerocallidea) African potato is the immune root. It has been used by African traditional healers for… Stinging Nettle Leaf Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is one of the most nutritionally dense wild plants on… Obe Ata The foundational red stew of Yoruba cooking — a fried blend of red bell peppers…
Herbs & Spices
Saw Palmetto Berry The blue-black berry of a low fan palm that carpets the Southern pine flatwoods. Stinging Nettle Root The root of the stinging nettle — a different medicine than its famous leaf. Pygeum The bark of the African cherry, a tall evergreen of African mountain forests.
Pantry & Condiments
Pumpkin Seed Oil This one is for the brothers. Prostate cancer is the second leading cancer cause of death… Tomato Paste Tomatoes cooked down to a deep-red concentrate — the backbone of jollof rice, West… Bee Pollen Pollen granules collected by bees with a complete amino acid profile, exceptional…
Snacks
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Whole pumpkin or African melon seeds dry-roasted with the hull on until they pop and…
Dishes & One-Pots
Miyan Taushe Miyan taushe is the Hausa people's signature soup — fresh pumpkin and its leaves cooked… Kanda ti Nyma Seasoned meatballs simmered in a rich sauce built on ground roasted pumpkin or squash…
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