QUESTION:  I don’t understand chemistry, can you please explain to me in a simpler way why greens are good for me?

VICTORIA: The sunshine hits the greens and the process of photosynthesis occurs. The sunshine turns into chlorophyll which is the base molecule for any carbohydrate, that is, sugar. There is no carbohydrate in the world that did not originate from chlorophyll. Then most of the carbohydrates from the chlorophyll are split between the fruits and the roots. We all know how sweet the fruits are, and the purpose of this sweetness is to attract you and me and the rest of the fruit-loving creatures. When we eat the fruit, we help the plant to propagate their species through spreading the seeds.  That is why when the seeds are ready to be spread the fruit becomes beautifully colored and delicious.

The other large portion of the sweet carbohydrates is transferred to the roots. One would ask, why to the roots? Even though almost all roots are sweet, such as carrots, yams, potatoes, beets, jicama and others, they are not attractive. They look like hair covered with dirt and they are hidden in the ground. However, the plants go to great lengths to accumulate sugar in their roots, because the health and the mere existence of plants depends on the richness of the soil.

The microorganisms in the soil  love the sweet taste. They feed on these sweet carbohydrates and multiply. These microorganisms convert small rocks and other inorganic minerals into live valuable nutrients. Then these nutrients are pulled back into the greens through water from the soil and stored there to feed the seed of the plant. The seeds are the most important thing for the plant – they are the future babies. Like how you save money for your babies, the plant saved nutrition for the babies and for the fruit. So the richest source of nutrition in the world is the greens before blooming. That is why all garden plants that are sold in the store are tender as they are picked before blooming. That is why greens are the primal source of all nutrition that is possible. Everything else is secondary to it. That is very important to understand.

Let me just repeat to make this clear. The sunshine hits the leaves and photosynthesis occurs. Because of photosynthesis, the primal carbohydrate molecule which is chlorophyll occurs. This sweet carbohydrate is fed to the roots. That’s why they are called rootlets (they look like hairs) and this is the best way to feed microorganisms in the soil. Then these microorganisms create the nutrition which is sucked back into the green leaves and it is stored there in order to feed the future seeds of the plant. Green leaves store the most precious nutrition for anybody (for humans, for animals, for plants) in the world. So that’s the answer to the question. That’s why greens are the most important and the prime source of nutrition.