With Apeel-treated produce ramping up globally, sharing my research on Apeel, plus my insights into health, nutrition— within the bigger vision of our Lightrition.  Before I dive deep into all things Apeel, let me share my views on Nutrition and my expanded viewpoint of Lightrition.

Nutrition

Nutrition is defined as the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues.

Nutrition in insolation focuses on consumption, serving the self. Nutrition is fixed, limited by it’s focus on materiality. In human terms it defines the body as a physical machine that requires a particular calorie intake & RDAs for health.

Nutrition has given us the food pyramid, restricting calories, food laced with fortified (fake) vitamins & minerals, margarine, and a myriad of stuff that is sold as food— yet is far from it’s original molecular form— devoid of intelligence. Nutrition has been reduced to ratios you need to survive, with little concern given to the source of the nutrients, life-force, and the Spirit within all things.

Based on the current working definitions of nutrition, is it any wonder that humanity is gravitating towards lab grown meats and the like. That’s the problem with reductionism— junk in equals junk out.

Lightrition

Lightrition on the other hand is the holistic nourishment that nature provides for Body, Mind & Spirit.  Or put another way, Lightrition is the reciprocal exchange of energy/light from the Anima & Botanical realms, the Sun, Stars, Moon and the entire Cosmos.

Lightrition is so much more than just physical consumption— it’s reciprocal expansion.

To help understand Lightrition, let me focus on plants as an example— keeping in mind that Lightrition is so much more than plants, its actually the energy exchange of every realm of creation.

Plants have an auric field, an energy field that surrounds their cellular matrix.  When you consume any part of a plant, not only are you eating its macro-nutrients (proteins, carbs & fats), as well as micro-nutrients (vitamins & nutrients), but you are also eating its energetic qualities, its life-force, templates of LIGHT from the Sun, Moon & Stars.

But it even gets better! When you nurture & grow plants yourself, touching them, singing to them, talking to them and humbling serving them— the plants respond to your energy field and change their matrix, nutritional ratios and LIGHT templates to serve your unique genetic blueprint and Lightritonal needs. Plants conspire to LIGHT up your vital force— supporting you to thrive in Physical health, Emotional wellbeing, whilst guiding your personal Spiritual evolution.

In summary, Lightrition is the living inter-play of humans as part of something greater than ourselves. It’s about living, eating, loving & breathing through the LIGHT. Lightrition is not just what we feed ourselves, it’s how we co-create with & through nature and thrive through her Inherent Intelligence. Lightritions unlocks the LIGHT of Humanity— and evolves our World more Beautiful.

With my views on Nutrition & Lightrition out of the way, lets now take a look at Apeel.

What is Apeel?

In case you hadn’t heard, a new product ‘packaging’ has hit the market— a plant based protective coating that is promoted to keep produce fresher longer.

To quote Apeel’s website— Apeel keeps produce fresh for longer thanks to the help of a little extra ‘peel’. Our plant-based protection slows water loss and oxidation, the primary causes of spoilage. Avocados, cucumbers, lemons and limes, mandarins, oranges, organic apples, grapefruit and mangos are listed as produce that are currently being treated with this coating.

The questions that immediately come to mind are— how is Apeel made? Is it safe for consumption? Can Apeel be applied to organic produce? Who is behind Apeel? How can I tell if food is coated with Apeel? Can Apeel coatings be removed? There are many many more questions (welcome to my mind 😂), but this is a good start!

Deeper look into Apeel

Back to Apeel’s website— Apeel is composed entirely of purified monoglycerides and diglycerides, edible compounds that can be found in a variety of foods. They are safe to eat as verified by regulatory authorities around the world, including Health Canada, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, they are so safe they can be found in products designed for the most sensitive populations, including infant formula and nutrition shakes for the elderly.

Considering many toxic substances, medical shots & environmental pollutants are deemed safe by regulatory authorities around the world— I don’t take ‘safe for consumption’ at face value.

As Dr Sherri Tenpenny noted, the information on Apeels website and product information sheet was scant to say the least!

Considering Apeel cannot be washed off produce not even with vinegar soaks), and there is no information available as to whether Apeel can penetrate through produce skins, understanding more about the formulation of Apeel is essential. Plus there is a lot of mis-information out there too where Apeel has been confused with APEEL a hard surface cleaner— thanks to Krystens Kitchen for clearing this up!

With ‘Apeel is composed entirely of purified monoglycerides and diglycerides’, what are these? Mono-, di- and triglycerides are composed of glycerol and either one, two or three fatty acid chains, respectively. As a form of fat they can either be saturated or unsaturated. Both mono- and diglycerides are often extracted from plant and animal sources and are used commonly as a food additive to emulsify, improve the texture and prolong the shelf life of processed foods such as baked goods, margarine, mayonnaise, ice cream, nut butters, frozen meals and processed meat products.

Digging a little deeper, I found that Dr Joseph Mercola had this to say:

Mono- and diglycerides are byproducts from the processing of oil. In the case of Apeel, the monoacylglycerides are derived from grapeseed oil, which is loaded with polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), including the highly problematic linoleic acid, which I’m convinced is one of the primary drivers of chronic disease. You can learn more about this in “How Linoleic Acid Wrecks Your Health.”

So, basically, what we’re looking at here is a way to turn fruits and vegetables, known for their beneficial impacts on heart health, into a source of harmful emulsifiers that increase your risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke. This starts to feel even more diabolical when you consider that the Great Resetters of the world are pushing to replace meat and animal products with plant foods, which they are simultaneously making more toxic and less healthy.

And diving even deeper down the rabbit hole…

In 2018, the founder of Apeel told Food Navigator that his company may be able to utilise synthetic biology techniques to manufacture Apeel rather than extracting its ingredients from real food.

Finally, Apeel Sciences’ board of directors includes Vijay Pande, an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford, who also serves on the board of Scribe Therapeutics, a company specializing in CRISPR technology and protein engineering. Pande is also the founder of Globavir Biosciences, an infectious disease start-up.

So, it certainly appears as though Apeel Sciences is geared up to move into genetically engineered synthetic biology, if they haven’t made that leap already. The company is even directly connected to a company specializing in infectious disease therapeutics, and we now know there are efforts underway to turn foods into vaccine vectors.

Unresolved Questions

I was recently listening to interview on CHD.tv with Dr Christof Plothe, an Osteopath & committee Member for the World Council for Health.  He gave an enlightening presentation on Apeel— how it started, how it’s made & concerns.

Christof concluded the answers still needed to be obtained re the following:

• Which glycolipids are used and how are they modified (fats/trans fats) ?

• What chemicals does the company use to extract the lipids and glycerolipids from plant residues?

• Where does the company source the leftover, already processed plant materials it uses, and what is the quality of these plant materials?

• What chemicals may have already been used in the plant materials themselves that are then included in the Apeel organic food solutions?

• What is the solidification process like?

• Do the materials always come from the same sources (and only organic materials), or do the starting materials change over time?

• If glycolipids are essential for us and are involved in the development of many diseases, how do modifications of them affect us?

• Why are trans-fats allowed?

• Consequences for the Microbiome?

• Environmental impact?

• The next CO2 benefit is highly questionable when factories are setup worldwide.

   

Who is behind Apeel?

James Rogers, a Ph.D. scientist out of U.C. Santa Barbara founded Apeel Sciences in 2012, as a way to battle food wastage. By way of note, James was named a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader in 2020 and is also an agenda contributor to the WEF. Among the articles he has written for the WEF is one in which he hailed COVID lockdowns as a model for future action on climate change. In other words, climate lockdowns.

Apeel Sciences was founded with a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Other investors include the Rockefeller Foundation; the World Bank Group; Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe; and Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube. By May 2021, Apeel Sciences was valued at $1.1 billion.

Is [Apeel] another Gates/WEF plot to destroy our health? Or a distraction from worse plots?” Alexis Baden-Mayer asks– political director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA).

But I eat Organic?

Apeel has been approved for use on Certified USDA Organic food. Yes you read that right! Whilst Apeel treated produce can be identified via stickers, labelling laws do vary— is this reliable identification?

The Solution?

The solution lies in the choices you make, and the value you place on your health & wellbeing— not just for yourself, but as the ancestors of future generations.

Eat SOUL Foods— Seasonal Organic Unprocessed Living foods. With the emphasis here on unprocessed— including any treatment coating on the outside of foods, regardless of how marketing, hype of approvals deems it as ‘natural & safe’.

Just because something is labelled certified organic, doesn’t mean it’s immune from contamination. So get to know your local farmers, chat to your local grocer, shop at your local farmers market— develop a relationship with who is growing your food & their views on Apeel & other such treatments. Avoid large chain stores, and don’t put your $ into ventures that aren’t interested in or at the very least are ignorant of Lightrition.

Better still, grow your own food! Join a community growers hub. Start up a family farm within your community. Become a beacon of solutions— a light-house that guides a more Beautiful World.

This Article is also published on Simone’s— Radiantly Human Substack