Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? Thanks! ne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 The energy of kuzu and arrowroot are very different. Arrowroot is more expanding and has tropical origins wheras kuzu is more contracting although very balanced. Kuzu is powerful for healing It is extremely strong and grows through rock. The powder is extracted from the center of the root and depending what it is cooked with has many benefits. For example, it can be used to relax the digestion and relieve stress when prepared with apple juice or rice syrup/barley malt. It also helps to relax tight muscles when used this way. Kuzu can help to strengthen the digestion when prepared with umeboshi and shoyu. Also good for colds with ginger added. Kuzu cooked with shoyu is helpful for PMS too. Kuzu can help to stimulate the appetite or when someone is very weak and unable to take solid food. kuzu vs. arrowroot > >Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is >their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > >Thanks! > >ne > Brown Waxman www.celebrate4health.com www.bebabywise.com info@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 the latter. kuzu is very emdicinal and strenghtening and arrowroot is just a culinary ingredient. and more tropical. kuzuz is highly alkalizing and so strong in its energy. there is an amazing book - the book of kuzu bruce - didnt you just review that one? we love kuzu! ;-) susanneguirakhoo wrote: Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? Thanks! ne -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 the latter. kuzu is very emdicinal and strenghtening and arrowroot is just a culinary ingredient. and more tropical. kuzuz is highly alkalizing and so strong in its energy. there is an amazing book - the book of kuzu bruce - didnt you just review that one? we love kuzu! ;-) susanneguirakhoo wrote: Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? Thanks! ne -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I have been looking for arrowroot without preservatives but cant find any here yet - but i will continue my search. been looking for it ever since you posted that great sounding cookie recipe. at macrowholefoods the commonly available one had sulfites in it! Marque wrote: arrowroot was used in Afrika for alkalizing just as Kudzu was used in Japan but it is not as strong as the kudzu. I use arrowroot more often in baked goods because it is far less expensive and use my kudzu when I am making a glaze in a recipe or for kudzu tea that is so wonderful and works for so many things. I've given it to many people who eat nothing but junk food and it still worked to make them feel better. Had an engineer who came in with a planned hangover and instantly he felt better. (and I had a better session than I would have if I'd been working with a grumpy engineer!) I also find kudzu works better when making things like creamy kanten as it has just the right something to make the kanten go from jellow to more of a pudding texture. On 1/2/07, susanneguirakhoo <susanneguirakhoo> wrote: > > > > > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > Thanks! > > ne > > -- Food Coach Marque "Love Your Body, Love Your Life" www.Marque.com -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I have been looking for arrowroot without preservatives but cant find any here yet - but i will continue my search. been looking for it ever since you posted that great sounding cookie recipe. at macrowholefoods the commonly available one had sulfites in it! Marque wrote: arrowroot was used in Afrika for alkalizing just as Kudzu was used in Japan but it is not as strong as the kudzu. I use arrowroot more often in baked goods because it is far less expensive and use my kudzu when I am making a glaze in a recipe or for kudzu tea that is so wonderful and works for so many things. I've given it to many people who eat nothing but junk food and it still worked to make them feel better. Had an engineer who came in with a planned hangover and instantly he felt better. (and I had a better session than I would have if I'd been working with a grumpy engineer!) I also find kudzu works better when making things like creamy kanten as it has just the right something to make the kanten go from jellow to more of a pudding texture. On 1/2/07, susanneguirakhoo <susanneguirakhoo> wrote: > > > > > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > Thanks! > > ne > > -- Food Coach Marque "Love Your Body, Love Your Life" www.Marque.com -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I have been looking for arrowroot without preservatives but cant find any here yet - but i will continue my search. been looking for it ever since you posted that great sounding cookie recipe. at macrowholefoods the commonly available one had sulfites in it! Marque wrote: arrowroot was used in Afrika for alkalizing just as Kudzu was used in Japan but it is not as strong as the kudzu. I use arrowroot more often in baked goods because it is far less expensive and use my kudzu when I am making a glaze in a recipe or for kudzu tea that is so wonderful and works for so many things. I've given it to many people who eat nothing but junk food and it still worked to make them feel better. Had an engineer who came in with a planned hangover and instantly he felt better. (and I had a better session than I would have if I'd been working with a grumpy engineer!) I also find kudzu works better when making things like creamy kanten as it has just the right something to make the kanten go from jellow to more of a pudding texture. On 1/2/07, susanneguirakhoo <susanneguirakhoo> wrote: > > > > > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > Thanks! > > ne > > -- Food Coach Marque "Love Your Body, Love Your Life" www.Marque.com -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Ilanit, What are your complete shopping choices? Markets, health food, natural food, food co-op stores in Melbourne, , Australia. If you can't find pure arrowroot starch anywhere in Australia, then you must get it from overseas. Are you able and willing to get your pure arrowroot starch from another country? Pure Arrowroot Usually every organic herbal product is pure. Whole Spice By the way, did you get a copy of the Companion Guide to Healthy Cooking: A practical Introduction to Natural Ingredients by Shirley and Nigro ? There is quite a bit of useful information on thickening agents, kuzu and Arrowroot, there! Thank you, very much. Bruce Paine PS. If you click on the above link, you will read that I wrote that review on "The Book of Kudzu" some time ago and for a certain magazine! And check out these kudzu plants! Ilanit Tof wrote: I have been looking for arrowroot without preservatives but cant find any here yet - but i will continue my search. been looking for it ever since you posted that great sounding cookie recipe. at macrowholefoods the commonly available one had sulfites in it! Marque wrote: arrowroot was used in Afrika for alkalizing just as Kudzu was used in Japan but it is not as strong as the kudzu. I use arrowroot more often in baked goods because it is far less expensive and use my kudzu when I am making a glaze in a recipe or for kudzu tea that is so wonderful and works for so many things. I've given it to many people who eat nothing but junk food and it still worked to make them feel better. Had an engineer who came in with a planned hangover and instantly he felt better. (and I had a better session than I would have if I'd been working with a grumpy engineer!) I also find kudzu works better when making things like creamy kanten as it has just the right something to make the kanten go from jellow to more of a pudding texture. On 1/2/07, susanneguirakhoo <susanneguirakhoo> wrote: > > > > > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > Thanks! > > ne > > -- Food Coach Marque "Love Your Body, Love Your Life" www.Marque.com -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Bruce wrote: Ilanit, What are your complete shopping choices? probably the same as where you are! markets, big shopping centres - huge ones. Markets, health food, natural food, they call themn either organic shops or health food shops here - health food tends to be more vitamins and dry good and organic dry goods and veg etc. and then there is macrowholefoods - which is new and fantastic food co-op stores in Melbourne, , Australia. If you can't find pure arrowroot starch anywhere in Australia, then you must get it from overseas. it is not a good idea to order foods as i mentioned - most things esp sealed get thru. But you can get it here - I just haven't looked past a few places. and i can live without it! for now... thanks very much for all the links - that was cool. I am sure it is around - this was only one brand that is common. I am sure there are others. I will keep you posted! -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Thanks, everybody, for clearing that up. I thought they were different, but the guy in 'my' healthfood store assured me they were the same, and in one of Aveline's cookbooks she said that 1 ts kuzu can be substituted with 1 TBS arrowroot. But that's probably just for regular purposes, not medicinal. I want to try kuzu, because I need some kind of energy boost. I'm surprised, though, that it is tropical. I thought arrowroot grows in the States? have to check out that book! ne > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > > > Thanks! > > > > ne > > > > > > > -- > > Ilanit > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > Little Tree Pty Limited, Melbourne, Australia (Little Tree). ® > registered trademark, © copyright 2003. All rights reserved. This email > message and attachments may contain information that is confidential to > Little Tree. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, > distribute, forward or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, > please notify the sender by return email and erase all copies of the > message and attachments. The sender of this email message does not allow > the recipient to forward this email message or attachments in whole or > in part by means of the internet. Opinions, conclusions and other > information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the > official business of Little Ttree are neither given nor endorsed by it. > This email message and any attachments are subject to copyright. > > > > Ms Ilanit Tof > B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) > Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods > PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) > > Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts > Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing > with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition > > ilanit@... > www.littletree.com.au > <http://www.littletree.com.au> > <http://www.littletree.com.au> <http://www.littletree.com.au> > <http://www.littletree.com.au> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Thanks, everybody, for clearing that up. I thought they were different, but the guy in 'my' healthfood store assured me they were the same, and in one of Aveline's cookbooks she said that 1 ts kuzu can be substituted with 1 TBS arrowroot. But that's probably just for regular purposes, not medicinal. I want to try kuzu, because I need some kind of energy boost. I'm surprised, though, that it is tropical. I thought arrowroot grows in the States? have to check out that book! ne > > > Do those two have the same properties and are interchangeable, or is > > their only common denominator that they thicken liquids? > > > > Thanks! > > > > ne > > > > > > > -- > > Ilanit > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > Little Tree Pty Limited, Melbourne, Australia (Little Tree). ® > registered trademark, © copyright 2003. All rights reserved. This email > message and attachments may contain information that is confidential to > Little Tree. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, > distribute, forward or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, > please notify the sender by return email and erase all copies of the > message and attachments. The sender of this email message does not allow > the recipient to forward this email message or attachments in whole or > in part by means of the internet. Opinions, conclusions and other > information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the > official business of Little Ttree are neither given nor endorsed by it. > This email message and any attachments are subject to copyright. > > > > Ms Ilanit Tof > B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) > Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods > PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) > > Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts > Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing > with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition > > ilanit@... > www.littletree.com.au > <http://www.littletree.com.au> > <http://www.littletree.com.au> <http://www.littletree.com.au> > <http://www.littletree.com.au> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Bruce wrote: Do you 'Stralian sheilas have gardens, ne, Ilanit? we sure do and we even have four veggie patches an olive tree,a little apple tree and a kumquat tree. we had a peach tree but it went to the tree garden in the sky Try growing arrowroot! See if you can get some of that Queensland arrowroot! many veggies and fruit etc comes from Q like CA inthe US however it is a long way away and is tropical mostly still there is lots of variety from there Here is arrowroot in Australia via Google! I will check that out! thanks so much yankee bruce! > -- Ilanit Tof - Signature Ilanit Ms Ilanit Tof B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology) Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate) Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Helping you grow to new heights of wellbeing with Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition ilanit@... www.littletree.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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