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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Benefits of Soursop Fruit

Benefits of Soursop Fruit
Benefits of Soursop Fruit. Soursop fruit called latin Annona muricata, In addition to delicious, this fruit is also rich in drug content.

Savor the fruit soursop gives effect anti-tumor / cancer is very strong, and medically proven to cure all types of kanker.Selain cure cancer, soursop fruit also serves as an anti-bacterial, anti fungi (fungi), effektive against various types of parasites / worms, lowering high blood pressure, depression, stress, and normalize the nervous system that are less good.

It was a sweet acidity that gives sensation to the fans. For those who like breakfast with bread, fruit soursop are also often added in the form of jam. Whatever the form of processed, soursop flavors remain strongly attached to the product, making it very easy to recognize.

The content of soursop fruit is as follows :
  • Rich in Vitamin C
Soursop fruit consists of 67.5 percent pulp, 20 percent of the fruit skin, fruit seeds 8.5 percent and 4 percent of the fruit core. After water, nutrients that most of soursop are carbohydrates. One type of carbohydrate on soursop fruit is a reducing sugar (glucose and fructose) with levels of 81.9 to 93.6 percent of the total sugar content. 
Soursop fruit contains very little fat (0.3 g/100 g), so it is good for health. Sour taste in soursop derived from non-volatile organic acids, particularly malic acid, citric acid, and acid isositrat. 
Vitamins are the most dominant in soursop fruit is vitamin C, which is about 20 mg per 100 grams of fruit flesh. Requirement of vitamin C per person per day (ie 60 mg), had to be met only by consuming 300 grams of meat soursop fruit. Vitamin C content high enough on soursop is a very good antioxidant to increase endurance and slow the aging process (stay young). 
Minerals which are dominant enough phosphorus and calcium, respectively by 27 and 14 mg/100 g. Both minerals are essential for the formation of bone mass, so useful to form strong bones and prevent osteoporosis. 
Soursop excellence lies in the levels of sodium (sodium) is low (14 mg/100 g) but high in potassium (potassium), ie 278 g. mg/l00 Comparison of high potassium and sodium which are very beneficial in order to prevent hypertension disease.
  • Rich Fiber
In addition to nutritional components, soursop fruit is also very rich in non-nutritional components. One of them is contain lots of fiber food (dietary fiber), which reached 3.3 g / 100 g pulp. 
Consumption of 100 g of fruit flesh to fulfill 13 percent of daily needs of food fiber. Soursop fruit is a fruit that is rich in phytochemical compounds, so as to ensure that the fruits were so many health benefits. 
Phytochemical compounds they are determined to have health giving properties, though not all scientifically proven. Various benefits of soursop for therapy include treatment of gallstones, antisembelit, uric acid, and increases appetite. In addition, the fiber content also serves to facilitate digestion, especially for the treatment of constipation (difficult bowel movements). 
Fruit juice (juice) soursop in the digestive system will increase the appetite. Other uses of this juice is for the treatment of waist aches and pains, hemorrhoids (pile), gallstones, and others. (By: Prof.. DR. Made Astawan, Food Technology and Nutrition Specialist / kompas.com)
Here’s a summary of usability soursop :

Soursop has enormous benefit in the prevention and cure of cancer. For prevention, it is advisable to eat or drink fruit juice soursop.

For healing, can boil 10 leaves of soursop fruit. The old (dark green) into the 3 cups of water and continue to evaporate and boiled water to 1 cup only. 1 cup water to a patient any dimimumkan 2 times a day. After drinking, he says the body feels the effects of heat, similar with the effects of chemotherapy. Within 2 weeks, the results can be checked to the doctor, he said quite efficacious.

Soursop leaves are said to nature such as chemotherapy, even more abundant because soursop leaves only kill cells abnormal growth of cells and let the cells grow normal. While there are still effects of chemotherapy also kills some cells are normal cells. (forum.vibizportal.com)
Efficacy and benefits for other treatments:
  • Hemorrhoid.
Soursop fruit is ripe. Squeeze to take water as much as 1 cup, drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
  • Pain Bladder Urine.
Half-ripe fruit soursop, sugar and salt to taste. All the material is made compote cooked. Eaten plain, and performed regularly every day for 1 week in a row.
  • Infant Diarrhea.
Soursop fruit is ripe. Soursop fruit is squeezed and filtered to take water, and drunk in infants suffering from diarrhea as much as 2-3 tablespoons.
  • Lumbago.
20 pieces soursop leaves, boiled with 5 cups water to boil until tinggal3 glass, drink 1 a day 3 / 4 cup.
  • Ulcers.
Soursop leaves are still young enough, stick in places affected by ulcers.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Type and Benefits of Dragon Fruit For Health

The fruit is his name sounds scary, but it has many benefits. Dragon fruit. You probably already tried it a little sour but refreshing. Let's further acquainted with this fruit.

Benefits of Dragon Fruit:

Dragon fruit is oval shaped and colored red with sparse scales are not sharp. May look out of this fruit that makes it called Dragon Fruit. White flesh with many small black seeds are edible. Has a watery texture of the flesh, so it's refreshing. Properties of this fruit, among others, to lower cholesterol, white matter and improve memory.

Types of Dragon Fruit

Dragon fruit has several types based on the fruit, among others:
  • Dragon Fruit White with petals at the end of the fruit with green and light green stems yellowish.
  • Red Dragon Fruit, by having many petals, dark green stems straight and has a dense spines.
  • Super Red Dragon fruit, valvate little, green stems and delicate.
  • Yellow dragon fruit, with a smaller size, about one-third of the average size of the other dragon fruit.
Many are wrong and take the fruit came from China because of his name, but, in fact the fruit came from the desert in Mexico. This is a type of cactus plants that can live in dry areas and the Latin name Hylocereus undatus. The tree is a cactus like plant with thick-trunked small thorns. The fruit will grow at the end of the branch and grow manifold.

Friday, February 10, 2012

How to cultivate in order Efficacious Mangosteen Skin

Mangosteen rind was very useful to inhibit the aging process, prevent vascular disease, and to anticancer. Well, Dr. Beautiful Yuliasih, mangosteen researchers from the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), providing a way to process the fruit skin is a refreshing and delicious beverage.

In the morning discussion with reporters at IPB, Thursday (02/02/2012), Indah said the process of making this nutritious beverage. First, separate the skin of the mangosteen fruit. Processing can include mangosteen seeds (rich in fat) or just the skin that contains Xanthones mangosteen. Use a spoon to scrape the inside of the skin is cleaned, and separated from the hard skin on the outside.

After that, chill in the refrigerator if they are to be stored until sufficient numbers. Then, mixed with ethanol and water in the ratio 1:2 and wipe out the blender. Endapkan for 24 hours, then filtered to separate the pulp with Xanthones mangosteen peel extract.

Mangosteen Make Aging Skin

It is now the mangosteen fruit into the season. On the roadside, the fruit can be found with relatively low prices. Well, it's good if you buy mangosteen, do not waste mangosteen peel skin because it is believed to inhibit the aging process.

"The skin of the mangosteen that contains Xanthones which are bioactive compounds that have a six-carbon ring structure with a full carbon frame. Derivatives of a-mangostin Xanthones are the most widely available on the skin of the mangosteen," said Dr Beautiful Yuliasih, mangosteen researchers from the Faculty of Technology agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University in the early discussion with reporters in the IPB, Thursday (2/2).

Saturday, May 7, 2011

10 Benefits of Lemons

Lemons have many uses in our food, but do you know it also has plenty of potential for health purposes?.
As I will explain below there are some benefits of lemon in kehupan support us all. The following are 10 benefits of lemons, such as:
  1.  Digestion : Mix several cut lemons with water, basically a light lemonade, and drink it in the morning to help your digestion all day long. The lemon stimulates the liver and this helps with digestion.
  2. Nose bleeds: This one stings a little bit, but lemon juice on a cotton swab or soft cloth when applied to a bleeding nose helps to slow and eventually stop the flow of blood.

Apple

Biological Background: Apple was originated in Asia Minor. It has been cultivated for thousands of years and today is the most cultivated fruit tree in the world.
Nutritional Information: A typical medium-sized apple (212 g) provides 125 calories (most from fructose), 0.4 g protein, 6.6 g fiber, 244 mg potassium, 12 mg vitamin C, and traces of other minerals and vitamins.
Pharmacological Activity: Apple is one of the best sources of flavonoids and a good source of dietary fiber (pectin), which are responsible for most of apple’s disease-fighting properties. Flavonoids and pectin in apple help fight heart diseases (stroke and high blood cholesterol), cancers (breast and ovarian), and constipation. Apples also have mild antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and estrogenic activity. In addition, apple can suppress appetite, thus having an apple before a meal can help control weight.
Eating Tips: Most of flavonoids and fiber are in the apple peel. And the colorfulness of an apple reflects the amount of flavonoids. Therefore, to get the most health benefit from apples, eat two bright-colored and unpeeled apples a day.
Detail: Apple

Heart Healthy Foods include High-Fiber and Low-Cholesterol Selections


When you talk to most health practitioners about heart healthy foods, most will steer you towards those food items that are high in fiber and lower in cholesterol. If you were going to compile a heart healthy foods list then, you’d need to include such items as fruits, skinless poultry, vegetables, herbs, spices, lean meat, egg whites, legumes, beans, bran, whole wheat bread, and non-fat or low-fat dairy products.
Learn to Cook more Healthily
Making the necessary food substitutions, then is crucial in being successful in your goal toward eating more healthy foods for your heart. To get you started, begin by implementing the following plans of action:

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Benefits of Avocados

Avocados (Persea gratissima Gaertn.)
Synonym : P. americana, Mill. Familia: Lauraceae
Description :
Tree fruit from Central America, grows wild in the forests, many are also grown in gardens and in the yard which tananhnya layer loose and fertile, andnot stagnant water. Although to be fruitful in the lowlands, but the results will be satisfying if planted at an altitude of 200-1000 m above sea level (asl) in the tropics and subtropics are a lot of rainfall.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Healthy food swaps

Trying to eat more healthily can seem daunting. In fact, by changing just a few eating habits you make a big difference to your diet.
Making that change will mean you'll get more of the nutrients your body needs. It will help you to achieve your 5 A DAY portions of fruit and vegetables. And it could help you to shed excess pounds and achieve a healthy weight.
It's all about avoiding high calorie, low nutrient, unhealthy foods and swapping them for something healthier. You could try:
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