Showing posts with label Healthy food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy food. Show all posts

7/5/09

Fresh and Nutritious Fruit

Fresh and Nutritious Fruit


Tips for buying and preparing
Make sure that the fruit and vegetables, which you offer to your child, are fresh and nutritious. Even the best, if you get close to the production of an organic farm and then as quickly as possible spend, not the loss of nutrition. Do not buy on the stock; always prefer to offer fresh vegetables and seasonal fruit. Fruits and vegetables do not store in plastic bags.
Many organic products are brought from abroad, therefore, goes a considerable amount of time between the harvesting of fruits and use, which speaks in favor of home-produced biological products.

Fresh and Nutritious Fruit

6/27/09

Fruit in a little different way-Fruit Picnic

Fruit in a little different way-Fruit Picnic


In any time of year you can prepare a picnic. In the summer place blanket on the grass, winter can be a blanket for a picnic failed in the living room or playing-room. In smaller containers cut different fruits. In each dish give further toothpick or dessert fork and place on a blanket for a picnic. Children love feeding on a slightly different way, over the toothpicks are certainly enthusiastic and happy to be on it picking fruit and eat it (if the children are still small, toothpicks are not eligible, the better to eat with hands). Such a fruit picnic you will want to repeat more often. But be persistent: the picnic will be fruit or vegetable; do not replace healthy foods with cookies and chocolate bars!

Fruit in a little different way-Fruit Picnic

5/27/09

Exotic fruits - Tamarillo Fruit


Exotic fruits - Tamarillo Fruit

Tamarillo is an exotic fruit of unusual appearance, when cut. While reminiscent of the tomato, so the external appearance as for use, and is therefore also known as tree tomatoes. Crude tamarillo is sour. It is very tasty with vanilla ice cream. From tamarillo you can prepare sauces for fish and chicken, cooked with sugar and a good meal for breakfast. Or you can prepare a delicious spicy mayonnaise, which fit the fried chicken. You can enjoy it fried, boiled, fried and fresh, and should say that the best friend for cooking.


Exotic fruits - Tamarillo Fruit

5/25/09

Carambola-Real Joy to See and Eat


Carambola-Real Joy to See and Eat

The fruit is large about 10 inches and interesting forms. When cut crosswise, the coils stars golden yellow, this is a real joy to see on the plate. The name of the fruit resulting from sanskrt words karmara, which means appetite promoter. The Chinese have, interestingly, named yang tao peach or caprine.
Better is cooked as the raw
Carambola has firm flesh, which tastes a bit reminiscent of strawberry, but it is only in countries where growing Carambola. Familiar with exotic fruits therefore recommend that Carambola enjoy cooked, because it has such a better taste. Carambolas briefly cook in the syrup or the often sweet water, and then add to fruit salads, or biscuit cakes... Chinese from Carambola prepared sweet-sour sauce called chutney, which served alongside roasted meat. 100 g of Carambola has only 23 calories, is rich with vitamin A and C, calcium and iron.


Carambola-Real Joy to See and Eat

4/6/09

Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance


Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance

Black radish is also medicinal herb
Black radish grows to a height of 60 centimeters
Black radish is in the kitchen widespread and popular, but should not be forgotten, nor its therapeutic significance.
This plant is a need to terminate, if we got sick or sensitive stomach or intestines, because a radish contains oil, which contains sulfur, which greatly inflate.
On the other hand radish is, if we enjoy without salt, a great asset to the problems with the liver and bile. It promotes the secretion of bile and act against jaundice, bile stone and biliary inflammation.
If to the juice of radish we add honey, we obtain ancient medicine against cough, hoarseness and mucus in the lungs.


Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance

3/25/09

Artichokes for Better Digestion


Artichokes for better digestion

Healthy food
Artichokes for better digestion
Artichokes are finding themselves on our plates too rarely, despite the fact that they have many active substances. Lower cholesterol, improve digestion, protect the liver and eliminate the pain in the abdomen.
Do you have a problem with increases in cholesterol?
Experts believe that should be artichokes classified at the top of medicinal plants, to which is the most help component cinarin, which contained the lower parts of artichoke leaves. The research confirmed, that cinarin and related components in artichokes regulate the level of cholesterol, improve the functioning of the liver, facilitates the operation of the bile, promoting its movement and lasting beneficial impact for bile stones. Extracts of artichoke lower cholesterol and thus have an important role in preventing atherosclerosis and vascular disease. Artichokes are also an ideal food for all those who have problems with lack of appetite.
Active cocktail
Artichokes are a source of carbohydrate insulin, containing bitter substance cinarin, proteins, minerals, pro-vitamin A and vitamin B. To enjoy the most appropriate internal yellowish green and the young leaves, while the content of substances in the flower head is negligible.
Forget about the digestive problems
Artichokes facilitate gastrointestinal problems, particularly those resulting from disturbances in the biliary excretion. These disorders are manifested as a feeling of tension, nausea, pain in the upper abdomen and lack of appetite, most are occur after a meal, rich with fat.
Be careful
When enjoying the artichoke, should be particularly careful those who have problems with the closure of the bile, since artichokes affect the secretion of bile. Patients with bile stones may consume them only after consultation with the doctor because they can cause strong pain.
Hint for purchase
If you choose to buy fresh artichokes, select intact, firm and such without the brown leaves. Simpler to prepare are filed artichokes, they can prepare the salad, as an attachment to meat dishes or under the Pizza.


Artichokes for better digestion