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Spring Fruits- March till May
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Apricots
Apricot is an orange color fruit which contains seed in it. It is somewhat like peach. Apricots are normally dried, ripe into pastry or used as jam. It is fine to consume apricots before meal as it is tremendous in digestion. It is also used as a medicine for fever. Mix a honey with apricots, mineral water to get relaxed from fever to get relaxed from fever. |
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Avocado
Avocado is called as alligator pear, midshipman’s butter, vegetable butter, or sometimes as butter pear. These are grown from the seeds of that fruit, but the plants are propagated by grafting. |
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Blueberries
Fresh blueberries can be bought from the month of May till October. The amazing nutrients in blueberries can be remitted by storing them in cool place. After purchasing don’t forget to keep in a refrigerator. A blueberry contains vitamin A vitamin C and vitamin E. It is also loaded with a lot of minerals such as potassium, manganese, and magnesium. They are rich in fiber and less in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. |
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Cucumber
Cucumber is an ancient plant, where the seeds almost twelve thousand years old. There are several varieties of cucumber. The most popular are English, Persian, and Pickling cucumbers. |
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Currants
Currant fruits are small, rounded in shape with smooth skin which can be red, yellow, green, or black in color. Currant fruits are almost sweet in taste and also used in several food preparations, in the form of syrup, jelly, jam, conserve and liqueur. It contains lot of Vitamin C and anthocyanins which helps in fighting against cardiovascular disease, eyestrain, aging, joint inflammation, kidney stones, urinary infections and even cancer. |
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Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe has lusciously rich flavor, fragrance and minimal number of calories. It is also referred to as a netted melon because it has a rib less rind with a distinct netted skin. It is generally eaten as a fresh fruit, as a salad, or custard, or as a dessert with ice cream. It almost contains large quantity of vitamin A, C and B6 among various other nutrients. Cantaloupe fruit is most helpful to prevent lung cancer. |
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Casaba Melon
The casaba melon is a variety of muskmelon, closely interrelated to cantaloupe and honeydew. Casaba melons are a tremendous source of vitamin C, vitamin B6 and also a good source of potassium. It mainly helps in maintaining optimum health and weight loss. Of the melons, Casaba melons are the lowest in sugars. |
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Cherries
Cherry is a fleshy stone fruit. Cherries taste best consumed "humid" from the tree. Cherries have a powerful pain relief benefits especially for runners and other athletes. It also has a considerable impact on relieving muscle and joint discomfort more quickly. Both sweet and sour cherries have tremendously short shelf lives and should be handled gently to reduce staining and rust. |
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Figs
Figs are a large and deciduous shrub. Figs are used to lower and control high blood pressure because they are filled with potassium, a mineral used to control hypertension. It also helps people mislay weight. Figs are good for those with diabetes, breast cancer and also great for post-menopausal women. |
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Jackfruit
Jackfruit tree bears fruits from trunk and branches. It also called as jak-fruit, jak, and jaca. In Malaysia and Philippines it is called as nangka, in Thailand as khanun, in Cambodia as khnor, in Laos as mak mi. |
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Navel orange
Navel oranges are characterized as the 2nd fruit at the apex, that resembles a human navel. Navel orange trees are all perfect clones of one another and are all originated from a single tree. |
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Nectarines
Nectarines are basically the same fruit as Peaches, the primary difference is that nectarines are smooth-skinned and peaches are blurry. Nectarines are sweeter, firmer and juicier. It provides a good source of carotenes, flavonoids, potassium and natural sugars. Nectarines are naturally cholesterol free amin C helps to keep up a healthy immune system. It also has a huge source of antioxidants which can help guard the skin from damaging UV rays by counteracting free radical movement. |
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Papayas
Papaya flesh is an orange color with either yellow or pink hues. Papayas bid the luscious taste and sunlit color of the tropics. Papaya also contains rich sources of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C, carotenes, and flavonoids. It is mainly useful for the prevention of atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease. It is also used to treat a number of conditions such as allergies, chronic diarrhea, indigestion, hay fever and sports injuries. |
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Pineapple
Pineapple is the ordinary name for an edible tropical plant. It provides an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese. It is helpful in energy making and antioxidant defenses. Pineapples are commonly used to cure throat infections, bronquitis and also be useful for women suffering from painful periods. |
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Raspberries
A Raspberry is aggregate fruit. Raspberries are lower in calories, wonderfully delicious and are nutrient-dense. The most familiar type of raspberry is red-pink in color. Raspberries are solitary of the most consumable fruits, so great care should be taken in their storage space. It also provides an excellent source of cancer-fighting compound ellagic acid. |
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb is in fact a vegetable, not a fruit. But we generally treat it as a fruit, because of its high acidity, but in some cultures they use it as vegetable in savory dishes. It is a comparative of buckwheat and has a sour, earthy flavor. Hothouse Rhubarb is one of the kinds of Rhubarb that you generally see in stores during the winter, will contain lighter-colored stalks and had less sour. |
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Strawberries
Strawberries are aggregates comprises of several small fruits. Strawberries are delicious and nutrient-rich fruit. It efficiently prevents the oxidation process in the body for free radicals. It also handles the heat, tighten the skin and prevent leukemia. It also has the effect of growth and curbs the happening of malignant tumors. |
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Special fruits for this week
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Kiwis kiwifruit will be fairly large and plump with thin "fuzzy" brown skin (Read more) |
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Pineapple
Pineapple fruit is native to the Asian tropics, with a delicate and fresh fragrance
(Read more) |
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