Month: May 2021
Five ways to eat your fruit (Series)
There are different ways we could eat our fruits and still enjoy them with great pleasure.
But we’ll be considering five of them
You can mix different types of fruits into smoothies, fruit juice, fruit lollipop, fruit salad, parfait and you could even eat them whole
We would be highlighting them respectively:
SMOOTHIES
A smoothie is a drink made from pureed raw fruit and/or vegetables, using a blender. A smoothie often has a liquid base such as fruit juice, dairy products, such as milk, yogurt, ice cream. Smoothies are perfect drink in all seasons and weather.
There is really no wrong way to make a smoothie, but these few steps should guide you in making one of the best smoothie
Making a fruit smoothie is as simple as tossing ingredients in a blender and blending them to paste but you have to first line the base of the blender, so here’s our exact process:
Add liquid to your blender. Typically you could use different kind of milk, fruit juice, or even just water.
Add in any greens. If you are adding any vegetables like spinach or other greens, this is the time to add them in.
Add in your frozen fruits and vegetables. ( We would recommend iced fruits instead of adding ice into the blender) You could at least have frozen bananas and frozen strawberries on hand for smoothie making.
Or if you don’t have frozen Fruits you could add few cubes of ice to thicken the paste.
Add any fresh fruits or veggies you’d like to use. Here is where you’ll toss in fresh strawberries or Cherries.
Top it with your favorite nutrition like tumeric, protein powder and the link
Then blend away, you start blending in the low and slowly increase to full speed. This makes sure everything is mixed well and the blades don’t get stuck. Blend until the smoothie looks silky, and then pour and enjoy.
Here are smoothies idea for you
Pineapple Juice + 1 cup pineapple + 1 cup mango + vanilla yogurt + banana + 1 cup spinach.
Apple juice + 2 cups mixed berries + huckleberry yogurt.
Orange Banana Juice + 1 cup pineapple + 1 cup peach + vanilla yogurt + banana.
Orange Juice + 2 cups strawberries + strawberry yogurt + banana.
Benefits Of Eating Mangoes
Mangoes are in currently in season. If you’re the type that loves eating fruits and mangoes are part of the fruits, then you’d love to eat more of mangoes having read this. Mangoes does not only have good taste, it has many health benefits; we will give you some reasons why you should eat mangoes;
The Benefits of eating Mangoes are:
1. It gives Clear Skin
It cleanses your skin deep inside and treats your pores. It gives glow to your skin
and leaves the skin flawless.
2. It gives Healthy Eye Sight
Mangoes are filled and loaded with Vitamin A, which makes it to improve eye sight. It also prevents night blindness.
3. It aids good digestion
4. Mangoes aid good digestion and prevents stomach related diseases. It helps in breaking down protein content in the body.
5. It makes your heart healthy
Eating mangoes is very good for a healthy heart, it contains minerals which helps your body to maintain a steady pulse and keep the blood vessels relaxed.
6. It strengthens your immune system
Mangoes are filled with vitamin C which allows for your immune system to be strengthened. it allows the body to produce more white blood cells which protects the body from infectious diseases such as flu.
Vegetable Salad And It’s Health Benefits
Adding vegetable salad to your meal course increases the absorption of nutrients on a higher level. Not only that vegetable salad has many nutrients, it is crunchy and has lots of colors and textures and flavors which are so appealing to the eyes. Most people enjoy eating vegetable salads even kids.
You can spice up your vegetable salad by adding protein such as eggs, peas, beans etc
Here are reasons why you should eat vegetable salads;
• Eating Salads enhances digestion – it is rich in water and fiber which enhances quick digestion
• Eating salads may help you with weight loss – taking salads as breakfast may aids weight loss
• Eating salads may boost your health and prevent diseases – it contains many nutrients and which benefits your health and protect your body against diseases
How to Identify Good and Healthy Palm Oil
Do you know that a couple of the Palm Oil purchased from the open market is adulterated containing toxic and carcinogenic substances dangerous to the health?
Do how do you identify these dangerous adulterated palm oil for the good and healthy ones? Here are a few ways.
By the:
1. Taste: It has a rich, earthy and slightly nutty taste with a distinct aroma. No awful smelly taste.
2. Color: Color can be a great way to differentiate quality Palm Oil but this can be deceptive because can of the popular use of Sudan-4 colorant. A good palm Oil would typically have two colors when bottled – a reddish-black top and reddish-yellow bottom. The reddish-yellow comes from the fiber and Carotene elements which gives Palm Oil some of its acclaimed properties.
3.Smell: A foul or dull smell is a major indication of a bad Oil.
