Wonders of Miracle fruit

Posted on April 5, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

miracle-fruit

Miracle fruit, miraculous fruit or sweet berry – a small bright red, ellipsoid berry approximately 2 to 3 cm long with single seed. The miracle occurs after eating the fleshy part of the berry. It causes sour and bitter foods to taste sweet. The miracle fruit itself has very low sugar content.

Miracle fruit does not taste sweet by itself but when combined with bitter and sour foods it transforms their flavor to taste sweet. It has a short shelf life only lasting for 3-4 days. You can find the miracle berry in dried form or encapsulated into pills.

The miracle fruit plant can be grown indoors with a T5 fluorescent growing light. It mimics the indirect sunlight that it would receive in nature. The plant can self pollinate itself and bears many fruits. It contains a protein molecule called miraculin which binds to the taste buds. It distorts the sweet sensory input to respond to acids and replicates the effect of sugar.

The fruit had low calorie sweetening abilities, hence it’s best suited for diabetic patients.

Recently the miracle berry has become popular with food tasting events called “Taste tripping”.

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Eat fruits to cure acne naturally

Posted on March 14, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Acne is one of the most common and irritating skin disorders. You can see bumps and more bumps all over your face in particular the places like right on your lips.

Do you look at other people’s faces and surprise what it will be like to have smooth and not be told by sympathetic friends and relatives trying to console you that “It’s not what’s on the outside that counts but what is on the inside”.

The best way to cure or prevent acne is to do an internal cleanse. Eat lots of fruits likely an orange or red skin to cure acne or pimples.  Eating plenty of fruits is one kind of way to treat acne from inside.

Many kinds of fruits will helps to treat acne naturally.

  • The first is Apple. As an old proverb says, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, in this case it will keep a dermatologist away! Be sure that you can eat the skin of the apple since most pectin is in the skin it helps with constipation.
  • Eat a single banana every day. Bananas prevent acne as they tackle constipation well.
  • The berries are helps for cleansing capability were helps to care for your facial skin. It also helps you to save from major skin diseases.
  • Eat grapes during the daytime that helps to cleanse your skin as well as your body.
  • Cherries contain Vitamin A and vitamin C that helps to maintain your bowel movements and good night sleep.
  • Eat papayas that contain enzymes, helps for rejuvenating and repairing the skin.
  • Apply lemon juice on your acne spots.

Reduce in the intake of caffeine; were it increase the stress hormones in your body and results in aggravated acne conditions. Try to avoid tea and coffee as much as possible. Avoid overcooking of food. It may delay the process of digestion that results in the forming of toxins in your body. Reduce the intake of red meat and dairy products. It contains high level of hormones that will generate more hormones in our body. Increase in hormones can result in the outburst of acne.

It will help you get rid of your present acne and finally you will be able to lead a completely acne free life.

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Tomato – the world’s most popular fruit

Posted on March 2, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Tomato - the world’s most popular fruit

Tomato is the world’s most popular fruit. Botanically speaking tomato is a kind of fruit, not a vegetable like the brinjal and the pumpkin. More than 60 million tons of tomatoes are produced per year.

Tomatoes were first cultivated in 700 AD by Aztecs and Incas. The French people called it as “the apple of love” and the Germans “the apple of paradise.” Tomatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and fiber and cholesterol free.

New medical research recommends that the consumption of lycopene (the stuff that makes tomatoes red) and it may prevent cancer. Lycopene is the most powerful antioxidant in the carotenoid family. They have natural compounds that create the colors of fruits and vegetables. They are rich in vitamins C and E; protect us from the free radicals that degrade many parts of the body. Tomatoes are used in many food product likely tomato sauce, pasta and pizza. According to the Council of Steel Packing survey in 1997, 68% of chefs use canned tomatoes for convenience and flavoring.

The scientific term for the common tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum, and it mean “wolf peach”. Tomato is a cousin of the eggplant, red pepper, ground cherry, potato and also commonly known as nightshade or solanaccae. There are nearly 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

Do not store ripened tomatoes in the fridge where cooked tomatoes have higher concentrations of lycopene than non-cooked tomatoes.

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An Ayurveda tips: Eating fruits before or after meal?

Posted on February 8, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Eating-fruits- before-or- after mealEating fruits is not as easy as you think by just buying fruits, cutting it and popping it into our mouths.

You should know when and how to eat the fruits. Fruits should not be eaten after your heavy meals. Take fruits after a light meal. It should always be best recommended to eat fruits on an empty stomach.

Always eat fruit in the morning- this sounds like just a variation of “make sure you eat breakfast”.  Fruit is believed to be really good for waking you up especially apples.

This kind of activity will play a major role to detoxify your system and by supplying great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

There is also possibility in weight reduction by eating fruits. It helps to fill the stomach and encourages people less high calorie food to be consumed. Hence eating lots of fruits will decrease the total calorie intake.

Some people may used to complain like; when I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat banana I feel like running to the toilet, when I eat my stomach bloats up etc. These will not happen if you eat fruit on an empty stomach. So, if you want to reduce bloating eat fruit. Intake of fruits on an empty stomach will also help to prevent Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, dark circles under the eyes etc,

You won’t get nutrients by eating cooked fruits. So try to avoid it were cooking destroys all the vitamins.

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Healthy Diet to fight off Belly Fat

Posted on January 25, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Losing your weight is not an easy way. Take some time, to plan your meals and shopping list.

Healthy diet to fight off belly fat

  • Add dried fruit to breakfast
  • Eat apple before leaving for work
  • Drink more fruit juices
  • Find recipes that contain fruit
  • Do remember to exercise

There are plenty of fruits but some fruits will be a good start for you to lose weight. They are as follows:


Lean protein

Lean Protein

It can help you stick to a low fat diet and help you to lose weight. Normally your body takes a longer time to digest protein. But here the lean proteins chicken breast, egg whites, lean red meat, low-fat dairy, beans and lentils etc,

Fiber

Fiber fruits

Both kinds of fibers like insoluble and soluble can help to reduce your weight. Insoluble fiber provides volume to food where soluble fiber helps stabilize your blood sugar levels. Add foods rich in fiber for your meals like fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, chickpeas and beans.

Juicy Foods

Juicy watermelon

Juicy foods contain higher water content which helps to fill you up; hence you will eat less collectively throughout the day. Higher intake of watermelon, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and grapefruit helps to good weight loss.

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Is it possible to convert the fruit wastes into energy?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Many industries were sold fruits to consumers around the world. But millions of fruits are being wasted and causing harmful problems to our environment. But no one is taking attention for this.

convert fruit wastes into energy

Steps to follow:

  • First degrade the fruit wastes of fruits like apples, oranges, lemons, limes and tomatoes by adding Pectinase and/or Cellulase to the fruit waste.
  • Incubate them in a mixture of enzyme and water. After 2 hours, measure the percent decrease from the original mass of the waste.
  • If there will be the change in concentration of the enzyme, then the length of incubation would decrease the amount of fruit waste.
  • Pectinase was the most resourceful enzyme to degrade the fruit waste. It had an average of 53.6% decrease from the waste’s original mass. Cellulose had an average of 26.4% decrease from the original mass.
  • Pectinase and Cellulose helps to degrade a higher percentage of the fruit waste were as the length of time and the amount of concentration of the enzyme increased.
  • At last large amounts of fruit waste can be degraded using Pectinase. While the minimized waste can be converted into ethanol by attacking the cellulose using enzymes to make sugar and to ferment those sugars and converts it into ethanol.
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Which is best for our health: whole fruits or fruit juice?

Posted on January 3, 2011 by fruitsinfo-admin

Which is best for our health: whole fruits or fruit juice? It’s much difficult to say what’s what. The main thing to look for a healthy juice is 100% juice displayed on the package. Check about the grams of sugar is in each serving.

Some advantages of intake of fruit juices are:

  • It’s easy to mix several types of juice and drink the equivalent to several pieces of fruit in one glass.
  • It’s better to drink fruit juice than to consume no fruits at all. Some juice might lose its nutritional value when pre-packaged on grocery shelves. Still, a few vitamins and antioxidants may be intense at higher levels in juices.
  • When you eat the whole fruit, you consume fewer calories. You may satisfy for a longer period of time than by just drinking a glass of juice.

You may think that you will lose lots of nutrients by squeezing the fruit juice and drinking it. But the truth is fruit juice contains nearly as much of the vital fiber as the whole fruit.

Include the edible skins to make fruit juice at home and get more nutritional value. Drinking juice is what it takes for you to get fruit into your diet. While eating the whole fruit is considered an ideal way to consume it. If you are not much of a fruit or vegetable eater, it might be easier to incorporate fruits into your diet by drinking them.  Make your own fruit juice is an easy one.  Use a blender to create a massive amount of healthy, delicious juice for you and your family. Kids don’t even know that they are getting something that’s good for them.

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Eat fruits and vegetables to make your hair healthy

Posted on December 25, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

Fruits promote healthy hair when regularly consumed or used in treatment applications which are tasty, full of nutrients and vitamins. Fruits promote hair growth and against premature graying. Always include lots of sweet juicy fruits and green leafy vegetables

Many citrus fruits like oranges, lemons and grapefruit and vegetables like broccoli, greens, and peas are rich in Vitamin C, bioflavonoids and antioxidants. It helps to boost circulation to the scalp which promotes hair growth.

healthy fruit hair mask

Vitamin A:

Vitamin A helps to makes your hair shiny and soft.  Melon and banana hair masks are perfect for healthy hair. Mix both fruits and make a thick paste, which should be applied generously to the hair. Then apply a plastic cap and allow the paste for 45 minutes and wash your hair thoroughly.

Vitamin C:

Citrus fruits like strawberries, kiwi and pineapples are helpful for healthy hair. It prevents free-radical oxidation of hair follicles and hair loss.  Intake of fruits with high levels of vitamin C should make your hair shiny and healthy.

Vitamin E:

Avocado fruits were rich in Vitamin E. Applying avocado hair mask will strengthen your hair. Apply the mask over scalp and leave for 20 minutes. Then wash thoroughly with shampoo and conditioner. It also helps to reduce the chances of premature graying and keeps your color vibrant.

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Magic of fruits to shine your face

Posted on December 16, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

Are you one of those ladies wants to look like your favorite personalities?

You can now have smooth, healthy with younger looking skin by the magic of fruits. Many fruits contain essential vitamins and minerals which is good for your skin.

An apple juice is a very refreshing tonic for your skin, makes an excellent remedy for fine wrinkles, cracked skin, itching and inflammation. It’s a great skin care treatment for oily skin and the peel of apple can also be used as a good skin cleanser.

Avocado can be used as an effective facial mask to take care of your dry skin. It can have the reputation of being very good natural moisturizers.

Cucumber is used for treating skin eruptions, bulges and for whitening skin which also prevent pimples, wrinkles, blackheads and dryness of your face.

Lemon was a common home beauty ingredient. It almost used to soften rough skin spots like elbows and heels. You can also mix few teaspoons of lemon juice in your bath to feel fresh for the whole day. It’s also helpful to prevent dandruff.

Peaches were serving as an excellent skin care solution. It will provide a careful cleansing action on your skin .It take off all the dirt that might have accumulated in your pores during the day.

Orange is an effective remedy for pimples and acne. It can be used for scar and blemish removal.

Watermelon is used to remove ugly blemishes on your skin. Extract enough juice from a small slice of watermelon and apply it over your face and neck. Splash your face and neck with cold water to close your pores.

Apart from this, try to drink 8 glasses of water a day you can find your clearer looking skin.

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Eating papaya is good for pregnanacy?

Posted on December 9, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

Papaya is one of the most delicious and valuable fruits.  Papaya is a great way to help get the recommended 70 mg each and every day.

Many people in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka believe that papaya can provoke problems in pregnancy like abortion.

Benefits of Eating Papaya during Pregnancy period

  • Papaya is much helpful to reduce the trouble caused by indigestion, where the pregnant women face.
  • Unripe papaya is used as a natural one to induce labor towards the final stages of pregnancy
  • Papaya is rich in vitamin A and vitamin C
  • Papaya is very effective against digestive problems like inflammatory bowel syndrome and heartburn.

Some reasons to avoid Papaya during Pregnancy period are

  • Eat only fully ripen papaya; the unripe papaya has a latex like substance that acts like prostaglandin and oxytocin which are commonly used to induce struggle.
  • Eating unripe papaya in early stages of pregnancy can induce early labor and abortion
  • Papaya is normally avoided by women as a precautionary measure
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Higher intake of berries, lower risks of cancer

Posted on December 2, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

Research shows that berries have rich health benefits like preventing the progression of cardiovascular disease, cancer, cataracts, fibrocystic disease etc; Berries have better anti-oxidant properties than fruits like apples and kiwi fruit.

Special berry extracts like blueberry have been effective in inhibiting the growth of major types of cancers where greater the absorption of berry extract, greater the inhibition in cancers. A higher intake of fruits and vegetables, like berries, translates to lower risks for most types of cancer. Intake of blueberries on a regular basis had the greatest benefits and lowest risk factors for heart disease.

One serve of blackberries or strawberries provides nearly 90% of RDI for men 120% of RDI for women. Blueberries and strawberries are more efficient to improve memory and to reduce development, progression of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.

Acai berries are rich in Omega fats where more than 50% of the fruit contains fat, 74% of unsaturated fats contains Omega 3, Omega 6 and Omega 9 which is good for cardiovascular health, enhanced brain function, less depression ,protect from stroke and heart attack, reduce breast and prostate cancer.
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Health benefits of drinking fruit juice

Posted on November 24, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin
Each glass of fruit juice is a source of power of anti  oxidants, minerals, vitamins and phyto-nutrients that provides more health benefits. 100% fruit juice can boost your diet at each day.

The most popular juices like orange, apple, pineapple and grapefruit all have a low Glycemic Index. It means they release glucose gradually into the bloodstream to provide long lasting energy.

A serving of fruit juice can add to our total fruit intake. It’s much important to meet the daily fruit recommendation each day.

A new research also shows that, teens who drink 100% fruit juice have more nutritious diets on the whole compared to non-consumers. Adolescents ages 12-18 that drank 100% juice had lower intakes of total dietary fat, saturated fat and higher intakes of key nutrients, including Vitamins C and B6, potassium and iron.

Intake of greater than 6 oz of 100% juice a day also frenzied more whole fruit and less added fats and sugars.

Age group Serving fruits/day
4-7 1
8-11 2-3
12-18 2-3
Adults 2
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Amazing health benefits of grapes

Posted on November 17, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

A study done at the University Of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. Fed groups of rats with enriched grape powder contain a mixture of red, green and black table grapes.

Grapes protect the better heart function:

Grapes protect the better heart function

Half the rats were put on a high salt diet and another half on a low-salt diet. In some other group of rats no grape powder added to their food. After 18 weeks, the rats that ate the grape enriched diet had lower blood pressure, improved heart function and reduced inflammation compared to the rats that ate the same salty diet without the grape powder.

Grapes benefits as red wine:

Grapes benefits as red wine

Various studies have shown the health benefits of red wine. But drinking grape juice provides most of the benefits.

Excessive alcohol usage can cause liver problems, higher blood pressure, heart arrhythmias and alcohol addiction. Red wine can also cause migraines in some people. It contains preservatives, flavoring and unnatural colors which are not really want to put into our bodies. Resveratrol is concentrated in red wine but is less amounts in grapes. So you have to drink more grape juice compared to red wine to get more health benefits.

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Healthy facts of dried fruits

Posted on November 9, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

The method of drying the fruit ensures a 100% chemical free process. It creates an increased interest, awareness and support for eating more fruits and vegetables. Intake of dried fruits per day varied among different ages like kids (5-12ages) 2½ – 5 cups, teens (13 – 18 ages) 3½ – 6½ cups and adults (above 19 ages) 3½ – 6½ cups.

Reasons to eat dried fruits:

  • Source of dietary fiber.
  • Potassium maintains muscle contractions and a healthy nervous system of whole body.
  • Iron, a vital mineral for maintaining the delivery of oxygen throughout the body.

Varieties of dried fruits:

Fruits Drying process-fruits yield per tree
Dates

 Ripen in three stages, hand harvested when tree-ripe, then mechanically dried.

200 lbs.
Figs

 Fully-ripen and semi-dry on tree.

40-50 lbs.
Plums

 Mechanically harvested, then mechanically dried.

Fresh: 150-300 lbs. Dried: 50-100 lbs.
Raisins

 Hand harvested when vine-ripened, then sun-dried.

Varies

Most important facts of dried fruits:

Though it is healthy as fresh fruits, but it’s not suitable for those who wish to lose weight. Since it does not contain water, but is very rich in sugar content. Hence it’s advisable to consume them in only moderate quantities where 1-cup grapes have 60 calories while 1-cup raisins contain 495 calories. So, dried fruits can make your weight loss program a complete breakdown. But people who are underweight, dried fruits serve as the perfect solution to gain weight and look great.

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Strawberries are not berries actually, but yes bananas are

Posted on August 28, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

strawberries are not berries in real

By technical definition, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single seed. The strawberry, however has its dry, yellow “seeds” on the outside (each of which is actually considered a separate fruit). True berries, like blueberries and cranberries have seeds inside. However, the banana fruit is a berry for the same reason strawberries are not.

There is a theory that strawberries were named by 19th century children who picked the fruit, strung them on grass straws, and sold them as “Straws of berries”.

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Proper food combination could prove a healthy diet-Ayurvedic surveys

Posted on August 9, 2010 by fruitsinfo-admin

It is important to know whether the given combination of food items that we consume is appropriate or not. Ayurvedic literature discusses in detail about various food combination’s and warns that many food items if eaten together combine to act like poison in the body. Did you know that  honey and desi ghee when mixed in equal quantities and eaten, acts like poison?

Wrong food combination’s

Milk and curd with banana
Milk or curd with radish
Milk and curd
Honey with hot water or any other hot substance
Honey and radish
Khichdi and Kheer
Milk with musk melon(kharbooza)/watermelon/cucumber/sanke gourd(kakadi)
Bengal gram (Urad) and radish
Curd and blackberry(jamun)
Curd and musk melon(kharbooza)
Curd and paneer
Fruits with vegetables
Radish or curd at night
Curd after heating
Ghee kept in a copper pot for more than 10 or more days
Pulses with sweet potato/potato/kachalu
Musk melon(kharbooza)/watermelon with any other food item
Pulses and rice or pulses and chapati
Milk or curd with chapati
Chapati and tamarind

Right food combination’s

Mango and cow’s milk
Milk and dates
Rice and coconut
Guava with fennel seed(saunf)
Watermelon with radish leaves
Asparagus(bathua) and curd raita
Curd and pulses
Mix vegetable of carrot and methi
Banana and cardamom(small)
Curd and amla powder
Swetsaar with vegetables
Dry fruits with citrus fruits
Pulses and vegetables
Vegetables and rice khichdi
Fruits and small quantity dry fruits with vegetables
Chapati with green leafy vegetables
Sprouts with fresh coconut

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