Showing posts with label Important summer food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Important summer food. Show all posts

Friday, 20 December 2013

MANGO

MANGO-THE AMAZING BENEFITS

     Mango is the most delicious fruit in the world. It is the most favorite to all. But a few candidate know although it's having mouth-watering taste, it is a container with full of amazing health beneficial nutrients. 
      Mango, (Mangifera indica) belongs to the Mangifera species. It consists of tropical trees mostly found in South Asia. They are hugely cultivated in Java, Sumatra. The mango is national fruit in India.
      Generally the inside latex of raw green mango is white in colour and sour in taste. But when it is ripen the colour of latex turns to golden yellow and mouthwatering sweet in flavour.
Mango benefits
  • Mangoes are rich in vitamin C, vitamin A, different carotenoids like alpha-carotene, beta-carotene which help to boost the immune system in your body. They can improve the eye-sight power because of having the vitamin A in high concentration.
  • Mangoes are popularly known to have vitamin B6 in high content. Vitamin B6 helps the development of GABA (Gamma Amino Butyric acid) which helps in neurotransmitter in central nervous system. GABA inhibits the nerve transmission through the brain and provide the calmness and relaxing effect to the body.
  • Mango fruit is a great source of dietery fibre, minerals. It is also known to have several poly-phenolic flavonoid anti-oxidants.
  • As per new study, mango pulp is believed to exhibit the preventive action against several cancer such as breast, colon and prostate cancers. It's flavonoid anti-oxidant element help to prevent the development of cancer.
  • Mango pulp is also rich in potassium which provide an important role in production of the component of cell as well body fluid. 
  • Mangoes contain enzymes which helps to improve digestion.
  • The raw mango is useful to prevent the scope of sun stroke. Those juice provide the natural cooling effect in body especially in summer.

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

CUCUMBER

CUCUMBER- GREEN BENEFICIAL FRUIT

     If you go to the market and you buy a bagful of cucumber, sounds just like awkward but it is very much good to do. Because cucumber is full of nutrients which help to overcome multiple problems in health as well as skin.
   Cucumber is a fruit not a vegetable which is found easily worldwide. It is featured with deep-green skin, flesh with rich moisture. There are a lot of edible seeds present in the core of cucumber.
Fresh Cucumber
    Cucumber carries a lot of impressive health benefits. Here the list of benefits is given below.
  • It helps to keep hydrated your body. If you have not much time to take enough water then you can bite on a cucumber because of having 96% water in its flesh.
  • It is an important aid to help in weight loss. For it you must have 3-4 cucumbers with your breakfast, lunch or tiffin by including it in salad to banish all the extra cellulite.
  • Cucumber is rich in vitamin K. It is wonder to hear that it consists of 17mcg of vit. K in each 100 gm flesh. Vitamin K is helpful in making bone-strength and promote bone-mass activity. It is an important element i the treatment of the alzheimer's disease. 
  • Apart from vit. K there are another few vitamins such as vitamin A,B,C also present in cucumber which make you healthy.
  • Just take a piece of cucumber after taking your meal. It helps to improve your digestion.
  • Physicians also advice to have a cucumber daily specially who have high or low blood pressure. It helps to keep blood pressure normal.
  • It helps to maintain the uric acid level in kidney and make it fit.
  • Sterol which an important compound present in fruit helps to keep away unneccessary cholesterol from your heart.
  • Cucumber juice removes away all the waste and toxin from body and prevents the scope of kidney stone.
  • It is also important fruit to diabetes patients because of having no sugar and helps to control diabetes.(but it has not preventive property to cure diabetes). 
  • It is great composed of  impressed skin-friendly minerals such as magnesium, potassium. So you can apply it on your skin to make it vibrant.
  • It can fight heat inside as well as outside of the body. So it very useful in summer to protect your body and skin from sunburn.
  • Cucumber is more beneficial to keep away dark circle around the eyes. You want to fade those dark circles just put 2 slice of cucumber onto your eyes daily. It also helps to prevent eye-puffiness due to having the rich amount ascorbic acid. Put it's paste on your eyes for 20 minutes and wash away with cold water.

Thursday, 12 December 2013

COCONUT WATER

COCONUT WATER-HEALTH BENEFITS


Coconut water
    Coconut water is a refreshing liquid which is found in the shell of immature green coconut. Actually it is endosperm of green coconut. A young coconut generally contains about 200-1000ml water, depend on its size. But when it is getting matured it's water content is to be decreased. A soft white edible kernel which is formed inside wall of mature shell, is almost absent in immature coconut. It is well accepted and all time favorite to every person in summer. It is the most popular drink because of having several nutrients providing a lot of health benefits and refreshment. 
    Coconut water is an excellent source of electrolyte and potassium. It is also rich in magnesium and chlorides. It also contains vitamin C, riboflavin, dietery fiber, sodium, calcium with small amount of sugar and protein.
     Young coconut water is a natural sterile liquid. It is also named as isotonic solution where the electrolytes are present in the same level of them available in the human body. Recent study has found that there is also cytokinins in it which is generally significant for the anti aging property and anti carcinogenic effect.
      A lot of health benefits of coconut water have been found. Here they are given below.
  • Helps to remove dehydration- It helps in the treatment of dehydration in case of diarrhoea, dysentery. It maintains the body electrolyte level and potassium content in blood plasma to rehydrate the body.
  •            Dehydration cause dull and dry skin. Coconut water provide the natural ingredients which is helpful in skin hydration left a healthy glowing smooth skin. It also has the anti aging property on skin.
  • Improve digestion- It can improve the digestion and metabolism in liver with the help of several enzymes. It also increase the efficacy of drug due to having electrolyte.
  • Brain and muscle- It improves the nervous system by the electrolytes. It helps to remove muscle spasm and cramps due to having the large amount of potassium.
  • Kidney- It helps to keep away the development of kidney stone. 
  • Immune system- Coconut water contains lauric acid content which is found to have anti bacterial, anti viral property. It helps to boost the immune system of human body to fight against the various infection. 
     Now you can see that you must consume coconut water to improve your health problems and get refresh to hit summer beat.

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

WATER MELON

WATERMELON-REFRESHING FRUIT

Fresh Watermelon
      Watermelon is a delicious summer-food which make refresh you in summer. It is not only thirst-quenching but it is a full of container with various nutrients. A matured watermelon in consisted of 92% water and 8% of sugar by total weight of fresh red pulp. 
     It is rich in potassium which helps to control the blood pressure and makes the heartbeat in normal rate and prevents the risks of heart stroke.It also helps to minimize the kidney stone.
     The fresh fruit pulp is rich in several vitamins.The important vitamin A which helps to improve the health of eye present as abundant in pulp.The plentiful of vitamin c which can reduce the heart disease present in it. It can produce immunity strength. It also has the healing property of wounds, cell damage. those vitamins makes it antioxidant. Apart from these, vitamin B6 is also present there. It helps to promote brain function and produces energy with the help of protein.
     Watermelon is a rich source of lycopene which helps to keep away the risks of heart disease and several cancers like prostate, lung, colon etc. It also prevents the development of breast cancer. There are two types of amino acids i.e. citrulline, arginine present in fruit pulp which regulates blood flow in arteries and also can promote cardiovascular disease.
    Red pulp of watermelon
      Apart from all the above benefits, it has a great taste and good flavor. So it can be added as excellent snack in summer dish. You can make juice of fresh pulp more delicious. Just take a watermelon and take away all the red meat from it. In a blender put the red pulp and a one cup of water. After mixing thoroughly, add natural sweetener to taste. Then half cup of lime juice is to be added to improve its taste.