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