Friday, July 30, 2010

Best fruit and vegetable

The best fruits to include in your fruit and vegetable diet are:

• strawberries
• apples (green contain the least sugar)
• blueberries
• grapefruit
• pears
• oranges
• boysenberries
• papaya
• cranberries (including cranberry juice)
• blackberries
• guava
• cantaloupe

The following fruits contain the most sugar and should be eaten less frequently:

• grapes
• bananas
• dried fruit
• coconut (also contains a fair amount of fat)
• dates
• canned and processed fruit.

The best vegetables to incorporate in your fruit and vegetable diet are:

• green beans
• broccoli
• carrots
• mushrooms
• celery
• cabbage
• lettuce
• onions
• tomato
• zucchini
• turnip greens
• turnips
• artichokes
• alfalfa sprouts
• brussels sprouts
• collard greens
• leeks
• eggplant
• kale
• okra
• scallions
• summer squash
• spinach

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fruits and their Vitamin Contents



VitaminsFruit Sources
Vitamin ACantaloupes
Grapefruit
Guava
Mango
Papaya
Passion fruit
Tomatoes
Watermelon
Vitamin B1 ThiamineAvocado
Boysenberries
Breadfruit
Cherimoya
Dates
Grapes
Grapefruit
Guava
Loganberries
Mango
Orange
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Watermelon
Vitamin B2 RiboflavinAvocado
Banana
Cherimoya
Dates
Grapes
Lychee
Mango
Mulberries
Passion Fruit
Pomegranate
Prickly Pear
Vitamin B3NiacinAvocado
Boysenberries
Breadfruit
Cherimoya
Dates
Guava
Loganberries
Lychee
Mango
Nectarine
Passion Fruit
Peach
Vitamin B5 Pantothenic acidAvocado
Black Currants
Breadfruit
Cherimoya
Dates
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Guava
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Starfruit
Watermelon
Vitamin B6 PryidoxinAvocado
Banana
Breadfruit
Cherimoya
Dates
Gooseberries
Grapes
Guava
Lychee
Mango
Passion Fruit
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Watermelon
Vitamin B9 Folic acidAvocado
Blackberries
Boysenberries
Breadfruit
Cherimoya
Dates
Guava
Loganberries
Lychee
Mango
Orange
Papaya
Passionfruit
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Strawberries
Vitamin B12None
Vitamin CBlack Currants
Breadfruit
Grapefruit
Guava
Kiwi
Lychee
Mango
Mulberries
Orange
Papaya
Passionfruit
Pineapple
Strawberries
Vitamin DNone
Vitamin EAvocado
Blackberries
Black Currants
Blueberries
Boysenberries
Breadfruit
Cranberries
Guava
Kiwi
Loganberries
Mango
Mulberries
Nectarine
Papaya
Peach
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Vitamin K
Avocado
Blackberries
Blueberries
Boysenberries
Chinese Pear
Cranberries
Grapes
Kiwi
Loganberries
Mango
Mulberries
Pear
Plum
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Tomatoes

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Fig Health tips

Fig are seasonal fruits found in western parts of Asia

Figs are great in natural and simple sugars, minerals and fiber.

Figs contain vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, sodium, potassium and chlorine.

Dried figs having 250mg of calcium per 100g

Figs are greatly alkaline; thereby backup the body’s pH.

It is good for fever, earache, boils, abscesses, venereal diseases and is tremendous for the liver.

Good for Alkaline, Blood Pressure, Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes and Nutrients.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Strawberry Jam Cake Recipe


Lets See how to make Strawberry Jam Cake:

Ingredients

• 2 c. sugar
• 2/3 c. butter
• 3 eggs well beaten
• 3 c. flour
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. cloves
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1 tsp. soda----dissolve in buttermilk
• 1 c. buttermilk
• 2/3 c. dates
• 2/3 c. nuts
• 1 c. strawberry jam
• pinch of salt

Directions

1. Cream butter, sugar-----add eggs.
2. Sift spices and flour, add alternately with buttermilk.
3. Fold in by hand dates, nuts and jam.
4. Bake in 325 degree to 350 degree oven for about an hour.
5. No icing required.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Seedless fruits

Seedlessness is a significant feature of every fruits of commerce. Profitable cultivars of bananas and pineapples are case in point of seedless fruits.

Every cultivar of citrus fruits, satsumas, mandarin oranges, table grapes, grapefruit, and watermelons are treasured for their seedlessness.

In every species, seedlessness is the finale result of parthenocarpy, someplace fruits agreed wanting artificial insemination. Parthenocarpic fruit set may or may not have need of pollination but furthermost seedless citrus fruits have need of stimulus from self-pollination to foodstuffs fruit.

Seedless bananas and grapes are located triploids and seedlessness domino effect from the abortion of the advanced plant that is fashioned by artificial insemination, a singularity known as stenospermocarpy which have need of typical pollination and fertilization.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Fruit salad recipes

Ingredients :

Ripe Banana - 3

Orange - 1

Guava - 1

Apple - 1

Mango - 1

Grapes - few

Pomegranate – Half cup

Sugar powder as per the taste

Lemon juice - 3 tsp

Preparation Method:

First wash the fruits, peel and the cut into small pieces.

Pour the fruits into the bowl and add the sugar powder and mix well.

Immediately add lemon juice and mix well.

Keep cold it and serve chilled.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Summer Fruits and Vegetables

Summer fruits and vegetables are delight. Summer is the finest time to gear yourself with some good fruits and vegetables, which creates you healthier. In summer when heat turn out to be cruel, exotic fruits bloom in plenty. Summer fruits and vegetables are accessible only for a small period, so make much usage of them.

A list of fruits and vegetables to keep you healthy in summer

FRUITS:

Blueberries Sweet enough to eat raw

Cherries Gorgeous in vitamins

Raspberries Exact tasty and high in antioxidants.

Some additional summer fruits are apricots, blackberries, gooseberries, plums, loganberries, strawberries, red currents, white currents and black currents.
Jambul or the Black Plum fruit, Litchi or Leechi or Chinese Hazelnut, Mango, Muskmelon,Orange and Watermelon


VEGETABLES:

Basil is good for stress, asthma and diabetes.

Beet is good fever reliever and emetic

Broccoli is rich in vitamin C, vitamin B6 and vitamin B9

Spinach is right nutritious and amusing vitamin A, carotene, vitamin C and vitamin K.

Zucchini contains vitamin A and is low in calories.

Cucumber very cooling vegetable to beat the summer heat

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

FRUIT NUTRITIONAL VALUES IN ORDER (concerns)

Apples
flavonoids, fiber, C (pesticides, wax coating)
Apricots carotenoids, A, C, fiber (preservatives)
Bananas B6, C, potassium (glycemic)
Blackberries flavonoids, fiber, C, K, manganese
Blueberries flavonoids, C, manganese, fiber
Cantaloupe carotenoids, C, A, potassium
Cherries flavonoids (pesticides)
Cranberries flavonoids, fiber, C, manganese
Dates (glycemic) Dried fruit
(glycemic, preservatives)
Figs (preservatives) Fruit juices
(glycemic) Grapefruit carotenoids in pink, flavonoids, C
Grapes flavonoids, manganese (pesticides)
Guava carotenoids, fiber, C
Kiwifruit C, fiber (glycemic)
Lemons flavonoids, C (wax coating)
Limes flavonoids, C (wax coating)
Mangoes carotenoids, A, C (glycemic)
Nectarines carotenoids, C (glycemic, pesticides)
Oranges carotenoids, flavonoids, C, fiber (glycemic)
Papayas carotenoids, C, folate, potassium
Peaches carotenoids, C (pesticides)
Pears flavonoids (pesticides)
Persimmons C (glycemic)
Pineapple C, manganese (glycemic)
Plums carotenoids, C
Raspberries flavonoids, fiber, manganese, C
Raisins (glycemic, pesticides, preservatives)
Strawberries carotenoids, flavonoids, C, fiber (pesticides)
Tangerines carotenoids, A, C (glycemic)
Watermelon carotenoids, C, A, B6 (glycemic)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Types Of Fruits

Types of Fruits:
1. Fleshy fruits
2. Dry fruits

Fleshy Fruit:


Flesh simple fruit:

Berries
Grape
Tomato
Banana


Hesperidiums

Lemon
Orange


Pepos

Melon
Pumpkin


Drupens

Almond
Peach
Plum
Olive


Pomes

Apple
Pear


Fleshy aggregate Fruit

Polydrupes
Strawberries
Blackberries


Fleshy Multiple Fruit

Fig
Pine apple


Dry fruits


Indehiscent dry fruit

Achene
Nut
Caryopsis
Samara


Dehiscent dry fruit:

Follicle
Pod
Silique
Capsule
Pyxidium

Friday, March 5, 2010

Fruit juice

Fruit juice are most delicious and smoothie recipes. Fruit juice contains lot of vitamins. All you need to prepare a fruits juice is a juicer and a blender. Fruits are the best food on the earth and they are strongly recommended by the doctors.

Drink at least one fruit drink every day. Drinking fruit allows you to intake about 3 to 4 fruits which full fill your daily needs.
To cool the fruits juice in the summer put some ice cubes in the blender along with the juice.

Adding little bit of banana in your mixer will give you a blend like milk shakes. This will give your drink some softness.

Select the fruits that are sweet to blend. Citrus fruits as a basis and blending it with the others are ones personal choice. Jar of orange juice can be kept with the fridge and it can be blend with the other fruit.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Fruits

Why Fruits are good for health?

Fruits have a good source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant. Dietary fiber in the fruits is very important for the digestive system of the body. And the antioxidant present in the fruit helps to prevent cancer.

Do all the fruits are good for health?

The goodness of the fruits depends on the time, age and amount consume. Is also depends on one’s health. The fruits that can be eaten at any time are Apple, grapes, kiwi, berries, pineapple, orange, apricot, and plum. Some fruits can be avoided before going to bed. Banana, mangoes, jack fruit, papaya, and avocado can be taken two hours before going to bed.

Eating fresh fruit Vs juice

eating the fruits as it is is better than the juice. But is also depends on the preparation of the juice. In the case of strawberry we will not remove anything from the fruit and at the same time we will consume more of the fruits in the form of juice. But in case of apple the skins are removed which will not do any good for our health.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Fruit - Type and Information

A whole list of Exotic fruits
Star fruit
Kumquat
Lychee
Sapodilla
Persimmon
Rambutan
Passion Fruit
Black Sapote
Canistel
Sugar apple
African cucumber
Kiwi
Durian
Feijoa
Atemoya
Dragon Fruit
Jackfruit
Velvet apple
Pumalo
Pomegranate
Jabotacaba
Monstera Deliciouso
Horned Mellon
Calamondons
Mangosteen
Wax jambu
Physalis
Salak
Rollinia
Rambai
Sweetsop
White sapote
Star apple
Matisia
Miracle fruit
Santol


A whole list of Tropical fruits
Avocado
Guarana
Melon pear
Abiu
Giant granadilla
Morinda
Acai
Hairless Rambutan
Mundu
Banana
Horned melon
Muskmelon
Babaco
Huito
Plantain
Breadfruit
Indian fig
Pulasan
Bilimbi
Indian gooseberry
Pummelo
Burmese grape
Indian Prune
Papaya
Calabashtree
Jackfruit
Red mombin
Canistel
Vanilla
Riberry
Cape gooseberry
Wax apple
Ridged gourd
Cempedak
Jambul
Safou
Ceylon gooseberry
Jatoba
Star apple
Cacao
Jacote
Strawberry guava
Cupuacu
Kandis
Soncoya
Custard-apple
Korlan
Sapodilla
Damson
Kumquat
Sweet orange
Dragon fruit
Kundong
Sweet pepper
Durian
Lablab
Rose apple
Elephant apple
Langsat
Water apple
Golden apple
Lemon
Watermelon

A whole list of Hybrid fruits
grapple
lemato
pyradachs
ugli fruit
collapso
blynx
coydog
lepjag
bonanzee
tigon
zonkey
wholphin
apple kartoffel
ortanique
shaddock
pomato
zorse
grolar bear
beefalo
jostaberry
wolfyote
atemoya
plumcot
olallieberry
boysenberry
nectacotum
loganberry
fairchild tangerine
yuzu
sweetie
tangor
grapefruit
dekopon
calamondin
lemanderin
oroblanco
poinsetter
rangpur
citrofortunella
limequat
orangelo
tomacco
pluot
tangelo
aprium

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Breadfruit:

Breadfruit is also called as Artocarpus altilis and it is one of the tropical tree relates with figs and Jackfruit.

Breadfruit is dependable and low-maintenance gives highly productive and a good source of food in tropical regions.

The breadfruit Yields high quality gluten-free carbohydrates. The breadfruit tree start gives fruit within 2 to 3 years after plantation.

The nutrition facts of breadfruit:


It gives you low Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium.

And it gives high Vitamin C, Dietary Fiber and Potassium.

Maintain best possible health.

But adding to your diet gives you both weight loss and weight gain.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Abiu fruit

The Abiu is a soft, yellow fruit with sweet transparent flesh. Its yummy flavor is evocative of creamy sweet, succulent flesh which tastes like Creme Caramel and make other desserts.

The fruit is well thought-out a delicacy for those who can grow it productively, and it thrives in warm subtropical and tropical circumstances. Round to oval in shape, every now and then sharp, with smooth bright yellow skin. A real taste delight when eaten slightly chilled.

Cut the fruit in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Best eaten chilled. Avoid the exude latex secure to the skin. The Abiu has low acidity, so the adding of a little lime juice will enhance the flavor. Mainly eaten fresh by them, soon after cutting as the rind discolors on contact to the air.

It is inhabitant to South America and can be established growing wild all the way from side to side much of Amazonia. In Brazil the soft tissue from the plant is used medicinally, to relieve coughs and bronchitis. Of course, most people love the fruit's flavor, which is improved when eaten somewhat chilled.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Star Apple

One of the comparatively slight fruits of the relatives Sapotaceae, the star apple Chrysophyllum cainito L, has acquired a reasonable variety of local names. The star apple tree is erect, 25 to 100 ft tall, with a short trunk to 3 ft thick, and a dense, broad crown, brown-hairy branchlets, and white, gummy latex.

The star apple tree is a tropical or near-tropical type range only up to 1,400 ft height in Jamaica.

Star apples must not be bite into. The skin and inedible. When breach a star apple, one should not agree to any of the acidic latex of the skin to make contact with the edible flesh. The ripe fruit, if at all possible chilled, may be just cut in half and the flesh spoon out, departure the seed cells and core.

An amalgamation of the chop flesh with that of mango, citrus, pineapple, other fruits and coconut water is freezing and serve as Jamaica Fruit Salad Ice. A good-looking way to serve the fruit is to cut around the middle completely through the rind and then, holding the fruit stem-end down, twisting the top quietly back and forth.

As this is complete, the fleshy tissue will be felt to free itself from the descending half of the rind, and the latter will pull absent, enchanting with it the superior fraction of the core.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Fruits:

January

Vegetables
• cabbages
• leeks
• broccoli
• cauliflower

Fruits
• oranges
• grapefruit
• tangerines
• tangelos
• lemons
• papayas

February

Vegetables
• broccoli
• cauliflower

Fruits
• oranges
• grapefruits
• lemons
• papayas

March

Vegetables
• broccoli
• lettuce

Fruits
• pineapples
• mangoes

April

Vegetables
• zucchini
• rhubarb
• artichokes
• asparagus
• spring peas
• broccoli
• lettuce

Fruits
• pineapples
• mangoes

May


Vegetables
• okra
• zucchini
• rhubarb
• artichokes
• asparagus
• spring peas
• broccoli
• lettuce

Fruit

• cherries
• pineapples
• apricots

June

Vegetables
• corn
• lettuce

Fruit
• watermelon
• strawberries
• cantaloupe
• cherries
• blueberries
• peaches
• apricots

July

Vegetables
• cucumbers
• tomatoes
• summer squash
• corn
• green beans
• lettuce

Fruits
• watermelon
• strawberries
• cantaloupe
• blueberries
• peaches
• apricots
• kiwi
• raspberries
• plums

August

Vegetables
• cucumbers
• corn
• eggplant
• tomatoes
• summer squash
• green beans
• lettuce

Fruits
• watermelon
• strawberries
• cantaloupe
• blueberries
• peaches
• apricots
• kiwi
• raspberries
• plums

September

Vegetables
• eggplants
• pumpkins
• tomatoes
• spinach
• lettuce

Fruits
• grapes
• pomegranates

October

Vegetables
• sweet potatoes
• pumpkins
• winter squash
• broccoli
• spinach lettuce

Fruits
• cranberries
• apples
• pomegranates
• grapes

November

Vegetables
• pumpkins
• winter squash
• sweet potatoes
• broccoli
• mushrooms
• spinach

Fruit
• cranberries
• oranges
• tangerines
• pears
• pomegranates

December

Vegetables
• sweet potatoes
• mushrooms
• broccoli
• cauliflower

Fruit
• pears
• oranges
• grapefruit
• tangerines
• papayas
• pomegranates

Monday, January 4, 2010

Pomelo Fruit

common name: Pomelo

vernacular names: Pummelo, Shaddock, Chinese grapefruit

Scientific Name: Citrus maxima

Pomelo is the major citrus fruit. It grows, like any supplementary citrus, in steamy areas and doesn’t bear near to the ground temperatures.

The fruit is sodium and fat free and is a great foundation of potassium and vitamin C. Only a fourth of a Pomelo (152 grams) provides 130% of the daily optional doses of vitamin C and has 60 calories.

The flavor is mildly sweet, perfumed and more often than not, does not have the strong acidic taste originate in grapefruit.

Chinese make use of the skins and leaves for prepare traditional baths by steaming them. The point is to rinse out the person and keep at bay evil.