USES OF FRUITS

Fruits are a great-tasting way to get vitamins, minerals and fiber and to gratify your sweet tooth without loading up on calories. And except for a few, such as avocado, coconut and olives, fruits are virtually fat-free.Fruits contain phytochemicals — a group of compounds that may condense your hazard of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Many are also good sources of antioxidants — substances that slow down oxidation, a natural process that leads to cell and tissue damage.

Eating a variety of fruits is important ,because different fruits provide different nutrients. So if you rarely undertaking beyond a few of your favorites, you're missing out on the nutrients and benefits of other fruits.

Some of the fruits and their uses are declared below:

Many fruits, including fleshy fruits like Apple and Mango, and nuts like Walnut, are commercially valuable as human food, eaten both fresh and made into jams, marmalade and other preserves for future consumption.

Strawberries are often used to flavor other foods, such as ice cream.Apart from its interest as a dessert fruit, the strawberry draws interest due to the peculiarities of its structure, its tendency towards variation, and the gardener's success in exploiting this tendency.

.Apples can be canned, juiced, and optionally fermented to produce apple juice, cider, vinegar, and pectin. Apples have been established to reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer. They can also back with heart disease, weight loss and controlling cholesterol.Apples are an important ingredient in many winter desserts, for example apple pie, apple crumble and apple cake. They are repeatedly eaten baked or stewed, and they can also be dried and eaten or re-consitituted for later use. Apples are also ready into apple butter and apple jelly. They are also used cooked in meat dishes.

For centuries, this bitter, yellow fruit ,lemon is not only used for cooking, but also to treat ailments ranging from epilepsy to the widespread cold. The popular fruit plays a vital role in cuisines around the world. Always bring your lemons to room temperature before you use them. Lemon juice prevents certain fruits like apples, avocados and pears from discoloring once they've been peeled.

Papaya and Pineapple contain enzymes that soften and heal the skin.The enzymes in these fruits scrap free-radical damage and are known to relieve age spots and fine lines and leave the skin supple. They also purify the skin by dissolving dead cells from the skin’s surface.

Oranges and Kiwi fruit are good sources of vitamin C. Bananas are a good source of potassium, and apricots are high in vitamin A.