Today we continue our discussion on Bible diet because we are sure that if many followed them, we would have avoided many life-threatening diseases around.

Fruits

Fruit trees of all kind will grow on both banks of the river their fruits will serve for food and their leaves for healing - Ezekiel 47:12.

King Solomon pleaded, "Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love," Songs of Solomon 2:5. "I would give you spice wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates," Solomon 8:2 (Look at all the hype about pomegranates now that we have just discovered the health benefits).

"All your fortresses are like fig trees with their first ripe fruits; when they are shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater," Nehemiah 3:12. Elsewhere, figs are described as "so good and sweet".

Olive is the third most mentioned crop in the King James Bible. Grown in the mountain slope of Galilee, the bitter-tasting olive was used as an ingredient in cakes, its oil for light and for anointing.

Bible vegetables

Freed and wondering in the wilderness, the Israelites murmured, "If we only had meat to eat!" They yearned for the vegetables they enjoyed under Egyptian slavery.

"We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost, also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic, but now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna," Numbers 11:5-6.

Manna, a carbohydrates, was what the people of Israel called the wafer-type bread that "rained down from heaven" (Ex 16:4) with the morning dew. The heavenly-provided carbohydrates was grounded, boiled, made into cakes and baked (Ex 16:23)

"No natural substance known today fits the biblical description of manna in every respect, and so there is little basis for identifying it with a known product," says the encyclopaedic Insight on the Scriptures.

Creator also used the sending of manna to enforce Sabbath observance among the Israelites.

Nuts, spices and herbs

Genesis 43 mentions pistachio nuts and almonds.

"Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean," David prayed. Modern scholars say the hyssop mentioned by King David is probably marjoram, a mint-like plant. Jesus chastised the Pharisees for their scrupulous tithing of mint and garden herbs but neglected acts of justice and love.

Honey is listed among the provision the Creator gave to the children of Israel in the wilderness. "The energy-giving property of honey is illustrated in the case of King Saul's son Jonathan who, exhausted from battle, tasted some honey and immediately his eyes "began to beam". I Sam 14:25-38.

Dr. Jordan Rubin claims in his book that when all had failed, the foods and diet of the Bible helped him to win his battle with Crohn's disease.