About Vitamin B17

Our Vitamin B17 is an all-natural dietary supplement extracted from apricot kernels, made in the USA. 

We welcome you to rediscover what the Hunza, Eskimo, Hopi and Navajo people already incorporate into their natural diets.

World-renown British surgeon Dr Robert McCarrison. Writing in the AMA Journal Jan 7, 1922 he reported:  "The Hunza has no known incidence of cancer. They have an abundant crop of apricots. These they dry in the sun and use largely in their food."

Dr Weston A. Price claims that: "In his 36 years of contact with these people he had never seen a single case of malignant disease among the truly primitive Eskimos, although it frequently occurred when they were modernized."

Dr Krebs: "Research found that the typical diet for the Navajo and Hopi Indian consisted of nitriloside-rich foods such as Cassava. He calculated that some of the tribes would ingest the equivalent of 8000mg of Vitamin B17 per day from their diet."

What is Vitamin B17?

Vitamin B17 appears in abundance in untamed nature. Because B17 is bitter to the taste, in man's attempt to improve tastes and flavors for his own pleasure, he has eliminated bitter substances like B17 by selection and cross-breeding. It can be stated as a general rule that many of the foods that have been domesticated still contain the vitamin B17 in that part not eaten by modem man, such as the seeds in apricots. Listed below is an evaluation of some of the more common foods. Keep in mind that these are averages only and that specimens vary widely depending on variety, locale, soil, and climate. 

Foods That Contain Natural B17

 Range*cassavahighsweet potatolowyamslow

 Range*bitter almond

Fruits  Range* blackberry, domestic low blackberry, wild high boysenberry med. choke cherry high wild crabapple high market cranberry low Swedish (lignon) cranberry high currant med. elderberry med. to high gooseberry. med. huckleberry med. loganberry med. mulberry med. quince med. raspberry med. Beans  Range* black low black-eyed peas low fava high garbanzo low to med. green pea low kidney low to med. lentils med. lima, U.S.  low lima, Burma med. mung med. to high shell low	Tubers	Seeds  Range* apple seeds high apricot seed high buckwheat med. cherry seed high flax med. millet med. nectarine seed high peach seed high pear seeds high plum seed high prune seed high squash seeds med.	Nuts (all raw)	high
cashew	low
macadamia	med. to high

Sprouts	Range*
alfalfa	med.
bamboo	high
fava	med.
garbanzo	med.
mung	med.

Leaves	Range*
alfalfa	high
beet tops	low
eucalyptus	high
spinach	low
water cress	low

Range* High — above 500 mgs. nitriloside per 100 grams food
Medium — above 100 mgs. per 100 grams food
Low — below 100 mgs. per 100 grams food
( Source, Vitamin B17 .org )

Types of B17

There are several names for B17. Amygdalin is sometimes confused with laevomandelonitrile, also called laetrile for short; however, amygdalin and laetrile are different chemical compounds. Laetrile, which was patented in the United States, is a semi-synthetic molecule sharing part of the amygdalin structure, while the "laetrile" made in Mexico is usually amygdalin, the natural product obtained from crushed apricot pits, or neoamygdalin. (Source: Wikipedia)