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[edit] Diabetes

I've met two or three people when I lived in Texas who attributed their cured diabetes to making tea from their backyard loquat tree. I'd like to see this discussed and/or mentioned on this page. I trust the wikipedia... and now have diabetes I want to cure... :) I remember specifically that they were Type I diabetics, and that's what I considered impossible up 'til that time. Anyway, someone check out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=loquat+diabetes and report back. Mrcolj 22:13, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Loquat Fruit Facts

Passages from this article are quoted, with permission, from the Loquat Fruit Facts document on the web site of the California Rare Fruit Growers.

Can you make clear which paragraphs are quoted from there please. Perhaps by putting them inside <blockquote> tags. Angela. 14:, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

Well, most of them, actually. I added bits here and there, such as which countries grow loquats, and the fact that they ripen in spring, but I'll openly admit much of the article is quoted verbatim from their document. I rearranged the sentences and cut out a lot of specialized information, such as planting and harvesting tips and descriptions of the different commercial variants (that are frankly pretty hard for the untrained eye and palate to distinguish). I'll try to think of more stuff to add, but honestly, I don't know that there's a whole lot to say about loquats, except that they're yummy and vastly underrated and should be peeled before eating. Maybe I'll say that. Anyway, the guy at CRFG with whom I corresponded, and who was very nice about this and wrote that "We take pride in our Fruit Facts documents", was named Bill Grimes. I first emailed him informally and then sent additional information using a boilerplate letter I found here, with links to GNU and all that.

Thanks for responding to my request for peer review, here and on other pages!--Woggly 15:13, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No problem. If they are happy to release it under the GFDL, that should be fine. Angela. 21:51, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)