Cherries occupy a specific and well-defined position within Aajonus's framework as one of the few fruits that remain low in carbohydrates even when ripe. This distinguishes them from the vast majority of sweet fruits, which Aajonus viewed with significant caution due to their high sugar content and the systemic damage that fruit sugars cause when consumed without adequate fat buffering. Cherries, and in particular bitter cherries, were identified by Aajonus as possessing properties significant enough that regulatory agencies moved to classify them as a drug, a fact he cited repeatedly as evidence that the pharmaceutical and government infrastructure actively suppresses access to foods that heal.

Cherries belong to the category of fruits Aajonus considered appropriate for the Primal Diet because of their comparatively low carbohydrate and sugar content. This places them in the same tier as berries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries, all of which he characterized as low in carbohydrate and therefore among the safer fruit choices. Unlike ripe tropical or sweet cultivated fruits, which Aajonus warned could destabilize blood sugar, drive insulin demand, feed yeast and fungal overgrowth, and create emotional volatility and even violent behavior in animals and humans, cherries were presented as a fruit one could consume with less risk, provided they were paired with adequate raw fat.

Frozen organic cherries were noted as an acceptable form because, as Aajonus explained, fruit is used primarily as a fuel or solvent for detoxification in the body, and therefore the loss of some nutrients through freezing is considered irrelevant, unlike freezing animal fats or butter, where an 80% nutrient degeneration was demonstrated through his own experiments with skin-disordered patients.

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Aajonus explicitly grouped cherries with berries as among the fruits lowest in carbohydrate content. He stated directly: "There are some fruits that are low in carbohydrate. Berries, cherries. Those are all low in carbohydrate." This is a significant classification because the overwhelming thrust of his teaching on fruit was that most fruit, especially cultivated, hybrid, and ripe fruit, delivers too much sugar too quickly to the body, overwhelming the pancreas and creating cascading damage throughout the system.

He described the mechanism as follows: sugar accumulates in the system, causing problems including yeast infections, fungal infections, athlete's foot, and even gangrene when the body cannot process the volume of sugar it receives. He contrasted this with earlier human history, when fruit was rare, seasonal, found only in very small patches in the wild, and was naturally unripe and tart rather than sweet. The fact that cherries remain relatively low in sugar even when ripe makes them one of the exceptional fruits he considered usable.

Aajonus cited scientific findings that bitter cherries help reverse and stop cancer. He referenced a specific news story and regulatory event in which a company publicly reported the discovery that bitter cherries could help reverse cancer. He used this as a direct illustration of the mechanism by which health-promoting foods get reclassified as drugs: "A certain company put out that cherries, we found in the scientific explorations, that bitter cherries help reverse and stop cancer. The FDA sent a letter to this company and said, because you named it as a curative, as a medicine, it is now a medicinal substance."

He connected this to his broader teaching that the systems in place are designed to prevent people from accessing healing foods. His exact framing: "They're against you being healthy. So you have to take it all in your stride."

He also noted this in relation to blueberries, which he said had also been targeted by similar regulatory moves, illustrating a pattern: whenever a natural food is found to have curative properties, the FDA or pharmaceutical interests move to reclassify it, ultimately removing or restricting access to it in its raw form so that it can be processed into a patentable pharmaceutical product.

Aajonus explained that when sugar from fruit enters the body, it needs to be handled through what he called the cyclic acid cycle. He stated that the ideal energy combination for the body is 80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% alcohol, where the alcohol is produced by the body itself from fruit. This is critical context: the body does not want to run primarily on fruit sugar. It wants fat as its dominant fuel, and only needs a small amount of carbohydrate, with the fruit portion being converted into a small quantity of alcohol for energy.

He specifically said: "80% of the best energy combination is 80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% alcohol that the body makes from fruits. So if you're eating a small amount of fruit, if it's high...", at which point the passage cuts off. But the principle is clear: fat must dominate, and the fruit's role is minor, producing a small amount of alcohol for energy while the fat does the main work.

When fat is absent during fruit consumption, the sugar from fruit inundates the system, creates erratic blood sugar behavior, drives insulin secretion from the pancreas, feeds microbial overgrowth, and causes oxidative damage. When fat is present and paired properly, it slows the release of sugar, buffers the insulin response, and allows the body to process the fuel gradually through what Aajonus called "time release."

Aajonus specifically noted: "Cherries and berries are very low in carbohydrate even when they're ripe. However, if they're overly ripe, they still have lots of alcohol that are formed and lots of acids."

He connected this to a therapeutic application: if a person has stones or plaque in the body, the acidic environment created by overripe fruit can be useful in dissolving those impactations. However, he did not recommend consuming overripe cherries freely, this observation was made in the context of explaining vinegar's role in dissolving plaque, and he was using the chemistry of overripe fruit to illustrate the principle.

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Aajonus's general teaching on fruit was that unripe fruit is lower in sugar and higher in enzymes, making it preferable in most cases. He said: "Cherries, berries. Unripe fruit of any kind is very low in sugar. It hasn't reached the sugar mark where the fruit is changing over into masonry, which remains sugar."

He described the natural cycle: as fruit ripens, starch breaks down into sugar, then further into a fermented state, then decomposition and fertilizer. Eating fruit in the green or early ripe stage captures it when sugar content is lowest and enzyme content is highest. This mirrors the behavior of the calmest and healthiest primates, who eat green fruit, green bananas, green figs, and show no behavioral disturbances.

However, he also stated that cherries and berries specifically remain low in carbohydrate even when ripe, unlike most other sweet fruits. This gives cherries a degree of flexibility in ripeness that most fruit does not have. The important exception is when they become overly ripe, at that point, alcohol and acid levels climb, which has its own distinct effects.

Aajonus stated: "I don't worry about freezing fruit because fruit is going to be made into a fuel or a solvent to detox the body. So I don't care if fruit is frozen. It makes no difference. So frozen organic fruit is fine. Always eat it with fat though."

This is an important practical distinction. He contrasted this with butter, where his own experiments showed that freezing destroyed 80% of the nutrients, a loss he called "remarkable." With fruit, because its primary role is fuel and detoxification rather than delivering fragile proteins, enzymes, and bioavailable nutrients in the way that raw dairy or meat does, the damage from freezing is considered irrelevant. The fat pairing requirement remains unchanged.

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Aajonus did not make elaborate statements specifically about cherry sourcing, but his general fruit guidance was consistent: always organic. He specified this for berries directly in multiple passages: "the berries have to be organic, so if you can't get them fresh and organic, get the frozen organic berries."

Since cherries were grouped with berries in his framework, the same standard applies. He was deeply suspicious of conventionally grown produce and stated he no longer trusted even stores like Whole Foods, recommending instead farmer's markets with direct questioning of producers.

There is no specific instruction from Aajonus in these sources about removing cherry pits, but his instruction with watermelon was not to eat the seeds due to phytic acid, and his general pattern with fruit was to remove stones and seeds. In the recipe context from Benefits of Eggs and Cheese, the instruction for making a cheesecake topping with cherries was explicit: "Remove seeds or stones. Chop fruit, if necessary, and blenderize 1 cup fruit and 1 tablespoon honey in a 12-ounces jar on medium speed for 10 seconds."

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Aajonus was unambiguous that all fruit, including cherries, must be eaten with fat. This was not a preference or a suggestion, it was a structural requirement based on his understanding of how sugar interacts with the body.

He stated: "You'd have to get your cherries and eat cherries with raw cream and raw cheese or raw butter."

And: "Always eat it with fat though."

And more generally: "Those sugars, those advanced digestion end products, so fruits should be consumed always with fat to slow them down, slow the sugar inundation down."

The fat functions as a time-release mechanism. It slows the absorption of the fruit's sugars into the bloodstream, preventing the spike-and-crash pattern that leads to pancreatic stress, diabetic states, yeast and fungal overgrowth, and emotional and neurological volatility. Without fat, even the relatively low sugar content of cherries will move too quickly through the system and create oxidative and metabolic disruption.

Aajonus named the following fat pairings specifically in relation to cherries and fruit generally:

• Raw cream, used in combination with cherries specifically
• Raw cheese, used in combination with cherries specifically; also mentioned in the context of cherry juice
• Raw butter, used in combination with cherries specifically
• Coconut cream, his standard for all fruit combinations, typically 2–3 tablespoons or more
• Combination of dairy cream and coconut cream, his most common formulation for fruit meals

He described the structural formula for fruit combinations: "Select and you mix that with some coconut cream, two to three ounces of coconut cream. Now always have an animal fat there for protection, either butter or cream or preferably both. Maybe a half a tablespoon of cream, I mean a half a tablespoon of butter and one to one and a quarter tablespoons of dairy cream, that you have with the coconut cream and the fruit and honey if you like."

He specifically addressed cherry juice: "Cherry juice is lower in sugars than most. But it's still pretty high in sugar. But if you ate it with cheese or some butter or cheese and butter, it would help."

He then clarified: "You'd have to get your cherries and eat cherries with raw cream and raw cheese or raw butter." This implies his preference was whole cherries over juice even for cherry, as the whole fruit provides more fiber and a more modulated sugar release than the juice form.

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Aajonus consistently recommended limiting fruit consumption to once a day because of its sugar content. He stated: "Fruit best eaten just once a day because of the high sugar content."

He also said: "I have a tendency to get manic if I have more than that", referring to his own personal limit of approximately one piece of fruit per day, particularly during fall, winter, and early spring.

For cherries and berries specifically, which are low in carbohydrate even when ripe, there is somewhat more flexibility than with high-sugar fruit, but the once-per-day guideline and always-with-fat rule remain.

In his individual consultations, he calibrated berry quantities to body size:

• Large frame (like one individual he addressed who could stand to gain weight): up to 1½ cups
• Average/medium frame: 1 cup to 1¼ cups
• Smaller frame: ¾ cup to 1 cup

These were specifically stated for berry combinations that would include cherries within the low-carbohydrate fruit category.

Cherry juice was noted as lower in sugars than most juices but "still pretty high in sugar." His recommendation was not to drink cherry juice alone. It required cheese or butter and cheese to buffer it. The clear implication is that whole cherries with fat are preferable to cherry juice, and that if cherry juice is consumed, it must be paired with fat, ideally raw cheese and raw butter together.

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From Benefits of Eggs and Cheese: - 1 cup cherries (seeds/stones removed, chopped if necessary) - 1 tablespoon unheated honey - Blenderize in a 12-ounce jar on medium speed for 10 seconds - Spread over chilled cheesecake

This is explicitly presented as the low-carbohydrate topping option for the raw cheesecake, appropriate for those who need to avoid higher-sugar fruit toppings.

From Benefits of Eggs and Cheese: - 4 dates, stones removed and chopped - 1 cup cherries (or combination with other fruit) - Blenderize in a 12-ounce jar on high speed for 15 seconds - Spread over chilled cheesecake

Aajonus described eating whole raw cherries with: - Raw cream - Raw cheese - Raw butter (in various combinations, at least one of these, ideally all three or a combination)

This was his primary recommendation for consuming cherries in their whole fruit form as part of a regular fruit meal.

If cherry juice is consumed (he noted it was lower in sugar than most juices but still relatively high): - Pair with raw cheese and raw butter, or cheese alone, or butter alone - This slows the sugar delivery and buffers the metabolic impact

When cherries are blended with fats into a parfait-style preparation: - 2–3 ounces coconut cream - 1 to 1¼ tablespoons dairy cream - ½ tablespoon raw butter - Cherries (or cherry and berry combination) - Optional: small amount of unheated honey - Blend all together

He noted that when berries are used in this combination, the pectin in the berries causes the mixture to firm into a gelatinous, parfait-like consistency. Cherries have less pectin than many berries and may therefore blend into a more liquid consistency.

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Aajonus documented this event in significant detail across multiple passages, and it was one of his most frequently cited examples of systemic suppression of natural healing foods.

A company released findings that bitter cherries help reverse and stop cancer. The FDA responded by sending a letter to the company stating that because they had named the cherries as curative or medicinal, the cherries were now legally classified as a medicinal substance, a drug. Aajonus framed this as follows:

"Bitter cherries went under the law as a drug because it helps people with cancer, helps reverse cancer. So now they're calling it a drug. So do you need a prescription to buy them? Just about. In the next few years it may get to be that way because the pharmaceutical wants to control everything. So they're going to want to process cherries and make it a drug. Then you won't be able to get fresh cherries."

He drew a direct parallel to what has happened with herbs: "Just like 90% of the herbs that they use to make their medications are illegal to buy and use. They're considered drugs."

He also named blueberries in the same context, noting that blueberries had similarly been targeted by regulatory agencies as the evidence of their health benefits became more widely publicized.

His interpretation was explicit: "Nobody's out for your health. So you have to take it on. They're against you being healthy."

Aajonus used his personal experience with chocolate-covered cherries as a clinical case study in the consequences of processed sugar consumption. Beginning around age 15, he was eating an entire box of 50 chocolate-covered cherries in 40–45 minutes on a regular basis. He described this as part of a larger sugar binge that included sugar-loaded cereals with added table sugar, Reese's Cups, and similar foods.

The consequence, in his account: "When I hit 15, I turned diabetic, juvenile diabetic. Also developed angina pectoris, which is basically heart attacks. Muscle spasms in and around the heart. They were so bad that I would pass out and be unconscious for up to 20 minutes at a time."

He later described returning to this same binge pattern as an adult, voluntarily forcing a detoxification: "I was rolling my heavy, heaviest sugar binge when I was eating, you know, a whole box full of 50, you know, chocolate-covered cherries a day. All in sweetened sugar, and lots of Reese Cups."

This account illustrates not that cherries themselves are harmful, but that processing them, coating them in sugar and cooked chocolate, consuming them compulsively and without fat, creates a cascade of metabolic damage culminating in diabetes, cardiovascular crisis, and systemic deterioration. The contrast with raw cherries consumed with raw fat is the lesson he drew from his own experience.

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