Natural Aroma Phyto Food (NAP) or Aroma Foods
By: Kenn Lin, Head, R&D
Aroma Medicine Research Centre of Canada
aromamedicine@rogers.com www.naturalessence.ca
Preface-
When we mention “edible”, we mean to human.
Part 1, definition
What is natural aroma phyto food? It is the edible parts from plants that contain essential oils. These parts include:
1. Fruits: All fruits exude natural aroma from both bodies and peels during their maturing process. Example – orange, mango.
2. Leaves, stems, or stalks of plants: Every part of a plant contains essential oil to protect itself against insects, bacteria, birds and other animals
3. Roots: Some roots emanate intense aroma such as ginger and garlic.
4. Flower petals: They normally emit sweet smell that attracts bees and butterflies.
Part 2, why taking NAP
Plants use essential oil to protect itself and to attract certain insects in assistance the insemination (to produce next generation. Essential oils can only be produced from plants, seaweeds, fungi and algae who can proceed with photosynthesis process. Human has no ability to do so and has to eat essential oil from outside sources.
Part 3, condition
What are the requirements being edible part of the plants?
1. digestible before or after heating, broiling etc.
2. low in toxicity
3. providing nutrition and beneficial to health
4. able to fill stomach
Part 4, how to eat aroma foods
1. Raw: Onion, basil, rosemary, thyme, garlic, green onion and all leafy spices
2. Rose, chrysanthemum and aromatic flower peddles
3. Powdering after dehydration: Black pepper, white pepper, five-spices (include anise etc)
4. Diluted essential oil: either in vegetable oil or in water (need dispersant to become water base) for seasoning purpose.
5. Flowers for the tea: lavender, jasmine, chrysanthemum, osmanthus, rose … etc.
6. Seasoning with raw aroma plants or dried seeds and roots: wither add as is or add into cooking utensils while heating.
7. Make drinks and dishes with diluted essential oils by adding diluted essential oils to your drinks or dishes. Final essential oil content should be approximately the same as original content in plants..
8. Make edible aroma medicine. This high concentration medicine has not become part of medical system in U.S. and Canada.
Part 5, suggested concentration of aroma foods from essential oils-
All foods should not have essential oil content more than 0.6% unless for a few low-toxicity spices (however, these spices are pretty spicy and not well accepted by public at high concentration anyway). Most drinks and tea can only be taken at a concentration lower than 0.008%. Use of following and dilute 100 times or more with water, soup or foods
Orange: 0.3% and lower (drinks, soup, meat dishes)
Jasmine: 0.3% and lower (tea)
Rose: 0.1% and lower (tea, beef, lamb, soup)
Nerolli: 0.08% and lower (tea, soup)
Chrysanthemum: 0.06% and lower (tea, soup)
Garlic: 0.3% and lower (all dishes and soup)
Black Pepper: 0.2% and lower (all dishes and soup)
Anise Star: 0.1% and lower (all dishes and soup)
Basil, thyme, rosemary: 0.1% and lower
Sage, clary sage: 0.06% and lower
Consult Aroma Medicine Canada for more information
Part 6, traditional medicine and essential oil
All Chinese dehydrated herbal medicines contain more or less a percentage of essential oil.
All western herbal medicine contains essential oils.
Aboriginal medicines all over the world (North America, Asia, Africa …etc) use plants with essential oils.
Part 7, Who is taking essential oil?
More than 300 essential oils and 800 kind of plants/fruits (that contains essential oils) are taken regularly by almost 100% of the world population.
Where to get Water Base Essential Oil?
Contact aromamedicine@rogers.com or check www.naturalessence.ca
How to cook aroma foods?
a. See instructions on the labels of aroma products such as water base essential oil.
b. Check with aromamedicine@rogers.com for recipe and more instructions
Conclusion
Aroma Foods is for all the people in the world. Take them under advice. If taking too much of them, drink some fluids such as milk, juice, soup, congee to dilute it very quickly. Just like eating too much sage or garlic, you can feel really upset with you digestive system and get dizzy if you take very high concentrate Aroma Product in large amount. As long as the aroma concentrate is under 0.6%, it can be added into foods at 1:100 or lower portion. Therefore, you can add 100 drops of Gp1 Lavender (0.1%) to 100ml or more of water, juice or soup. However, for people who has autoimmune diseases such as allergy, eczema, they must reduce the concentration because they already are more allergic to fruits and some proteins.
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