Juicer Recipes For The Hot Days Of Summer
August 14, 2009 by Mike Anderson
Filed under Diet
A lot of people don’t like eating solid fruits and vegetable, therefore it can be a problem for them because they need the nutrition in order to keep healthy and fit. Juicer recipes are here to solve all those problems, now we can simply juice all the fruits and vegetables and the result will be a delicious drink you will most certainly enjoy even if you hate fruits and vegetables.
Fruit and vegetable juices are very important to our body’s health and fitness. If you search hard enough you will realize that there are juicer recipes specific for diseases such as colds, fevers, diarrhea, constipation..etc.
The best thing you can do is have a juicer machine in your kitchen, this will help make things a lot easier with making your juices at home. All you need now are good juicer recipes.
As for juicer recipes, they come in a variety of tastes, they’re simply unlimited and you will have an unbelievable range of choices. You have fruit recipes, vegetable recipes and both combined in one drink recipes.
Of course the best juicer recipes are those which consist of many ingredients. That means they will consist of different nutrition from different fruits and vegetables and the more nutritious your drink will be.
One of the most liked juicer recipes are the cocktail fruit ones, but of course these also come in a large range of choices as you have many different cocktail drinks.
One of the most popular and delicious tastes for it is made of basic ingredients. All you need is 2 cored apples, 3 carrots and a stalk of celery. Using your juicer you can juice these together in order and experience a delicious taste.
Juicer recipes are a great way to make sure your children get the nutrition their bodies need even if they don’t eat their fruits and vegetables, and we all know how much kids hate eating their solid greens.
This is why fresh juice recipes are very important, in fact, not only will your kids drink their juices but they will love them and always ask for more.
If this develops a problem for you, it’s always good to keep things well organized. So set up a schedule for you and the times for having cool refreshing drinks.
Peel to lemons and juice them in the blender then juice a handful of celery with it, after that you can add half a cup of raw sugar until it looks just about right.
If you’re wondering how to find out which juicer recipes will turn out to be the best, you should know that the best juices are the ones that you make according to know specific recipe. A lot of people come up with their juice ideas and create their own recipes. With a little experience, you will be able to do so too.
What Can Noni be Used For?
April 1, 2009 by Fred Lemming
Filed under Diet
The noni tree originates in the south pacific, most likely Hawaii, growing in the back lava soil left behind by the Island’s many volcanoes. It can grow up to 30 feet tall, and is related to the coffee tree, being in the Rubiaceae family. It will also grow in shady forests, sandy and rocky shores, saline soils, secondary soils, and limestone outcrops. It is however more common and grows better in the lava soil beds. Today it grows in Tahiti, French Polynesia, Southeast Asia, all of the Pacific Islands, and even in the Dominican Republic.
Although it has been a staple food for some small countries, it is mostly called the starvation or famine fruit simply because it tastes quite bad in it’s raw, fruit form. The outside resembles that of a large mottled white potato with buds on it similar to the knobs on pineapples. It has a sour smell when ripening, much like that of cheese when it is curing and so has been given the nickname of the ‘cheese fruit.’ Its other names include the scientific name of Morinda Citrifolia, and general names like Great Morinda, Indian Mulberry, Mengkudi, Beach Mulberry, and Tahitian Noni usually according to where it has been found to grow.
The main use of the fruit is the juice and ground powder. The powder itself is loaded with Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Calcium with trace amounts of sodium. It is also a good source of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. Noni is said to have boosting power for your metabolism. This fruit also contains a sufficient amount of essential fatty acids, flavanoids, polysaccharides, indoids and phytoestrogens.
Noni has a trace element called beta-sitosterol, an anti-cholesterol ingredient. Many health food stores carry other parts of the plant in ground form for the making of natural herbal medicines and remedies. Some countries, like China and Japan use the flowers, fruit, bark, leaves and roots, which is basically the whole plant in their home made remedies. They say it is good for fever, eye irritations, throat and gum infections, bowel, intestine and general stomach problems and lung problems.
The leaves of the noni tree are used in Malaysia as a poultice on the chest to relieve coughs, nausea and colic. The fruit is used in Indochina for lumbago, asthma, and dysentery. It is also made into a poultice an applied to broken bones to help relieve pain.
This Queen Fruit or Canoe Fruit as it was named by early Polynesian tribes, traveled with them wherever they went. Because of its healing and health benefits it was one of the things the tribe would consider essential to travel or take with them. They would eat the fruit, drink the juice, use it for medical purposes and save the seeds to plant.
What is a Mangosteen Good for?
March 12, 2009 by Oliver Tyler
Filed under Diet
There is a tropical evergreen tree that grows throughout southeast Asia commonly now, but is believed to have originated in the Sundra Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. This tree grows as tall as 80 feet and produces a purple fruit that is famously edible. Some compare the taste that of a sweet peach mixed with apricot. Depending on the crop and the area it is found in it can have a tangy or a very sweet taste. This purple fruit, called a mangosteen, is supposed to have some of the world’s most impressive healing properties.
There are many ’superfruits’ being talked about today. Mangosteen is at the top of the list, however the nutritional value of this fruit doesn’t at first appear to match up to what some health officials determine to be a superfruit. It contains 18 grams of carbohydrates, 1.8 grams of diet fiber, .6 grams of fat, .4 grams of protein and 81 grams of water.
So if nothing else, it is very low in calories and would be perfect for those on a diet or trying to just control their weight. However research does show that it might have some of the world’s best antioxidant properties for any fruit. It is supposed to contain at least 40 different Xanthones, which are a powerful form of antioxidants. There are currently 200 Xanthones identified, all beneficial to humans.
Xanthones travel through our system and mop up free radicals that can cause disease and malfunctions in many of our organs. Mangosteen contains the Xanthones alpha-mangostin, gama-mangostin garcinone, beta-mangostin, garcinone-a, garcinone-d, garcinone-c, gartanin and mangostanol. All of these Xanthones and the all the other antioxidants contained in this fruit have anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsive, anti-tumor, anti-allergic, and platelet-aiding properties.
However, take care when drinking the Mangosteen juice. There have been a few cases of acidosis reported by individuals who consumed too much of it. Drinking smaller quantities should solve this issue entirely though, since the acidosis only appeared when people drank rather large quantities of its juice.
Mangosteen is available in western countries in juice, frozen, and sometimes canned varieties. There has been a long-standing ban on importation of this fruit in it’s whole form to the United States, but Canada has been importing mangosteen since 2007. Although the fruit is not easy to find here, farmers in Puerto Rico have started to send us a few mangosteen, especially to the more wealthy hotels and restaurants on the east coast.



