Fruits and Benefits for Beauty

If you're a fan of fruit, no stranger would have heard the names of the fruit below. In addition to fresh, sweet and nice body are consumed, the fruit is also useful to take care of your beauty.

• Lemon
  Lemon contains vitamin A, C, B1, B2 and B3. Therefore very well be used as a lotion for normal to oily skin and can be used every day. Fruit juice can also work effectively when used as a mask. Here's how to make a mask of lemon; Mix one teaspoon of lemon juice with egg white is beaten. Apply on face and let stand for 10 minutes. After that lift and clean with rose water or warm water. Use this mask for a week for maximum results.
• Tomatoes
  The round shape and red color it had many benefits for treating skin beauty and refinement of your face. Tomatoes are loaded with protein, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, vitamin A, B1, and C is good for the skin. In order to keep the face smooth, grab ripe tomatoes, then slice and rub it on the face. Or, you can also squeeze the tomatoes, then rub lemon tomatoes every day to face.
• Strawberry
  This sweet fruit is often used as a flavor of a drink. However, behind the fresh taste, strawberries are loaded with salicylic acid (which can help tighten the skin), as well as vitamins B, C, E and K. With the ability to nourish and rejuvenate the skin, good strawberry mask used for almost all skin types. Its use can be carried out twice in one week. How to make strawberry mask: Mash a few strawberries that have been separated from the stems and leaves, then wipe destruction of strawberry fruit was on the face of two tablespoons and let stand for 15 minutes. After that, rinse with clean warm water. To get a toning effect is stronger, add the egg white slightly beaten, one tablespoon rose water and few drops of essential oil.
• Banana
  In addition to healthy eating a banana it has many wonders to take care of your beauty. With a variety of vitamins A, B complex and C as well as substances such as serotinim, pectin, tannins, noradrenaline and 5 hydroxy tritamin, bananas can be used as a facial moisturizer, hair care and care after childbirth. Here are some ways of making:
  

As a moisturizer face: take a banana (banana should ambon) that have been cooked, then destroy and add olive oil. Use and regularly repeat these herbs as a moisturizer.

For hair care: take a few pieces of banana stem juice and take. Use the liquid to moisten evenly across the scalp. Do it every day for 30 days.

For postpartum care: search and select the stone banana trees that have not flowered. Then, take the water really clean. The water is then used to wash the vagina to return fast, especially for your new baby.

By Irina Damayanti

Indonesian Fruits

Perhaps the cheapest, tastiest and healthiest option, though, is to buy some fresh fruit, which is available throughout the year, although individual fruits do have seasons. Popular options include mango (mangga), papaya (papaya), banana (pisang), starfruit (belimbing) and guava (jambu), but more exotic options you’re unlikely to see outside Indonesia include the scaly-skinned crisp snakefruit (salak) and the alien-looking local passionfruit (markisa). Probably the most infamous Indonesian fruit, though, is the durian. Named after the Indonesian word for thorn, it resembles an armor-plated coconut the size of a human head, and it has a powerful odor often likened to rotting garbage. Inside is yellow creamy flesh, which has a unique sweet, custardy, avocadoey taste and texture.

Java Mango

Java Mango is rich of vitamin A and vitamin C which are significant for your body and good for your family's. Furthermore, mango contains proteins, carbohydrate, calori, calcium, phosphor, zinc, magnesium, various nitrates, tannin, and some fat.
Carbohydrate in mangoes are compounded from simple sugars (sucrose, glucose, and fructose) which make body fit. These sugars and the nitrates can tease your appetite. Mango also has cellulose and pectin which act as laxative.
Optimal composition of vitamin and mineral can be found in ripened mangoes.

Durian

Durian is a fruit which is well liked in Indonesia as well as in Malaysia, but foreigners usually do not want to try it because it has a pungent smell. Durian has very thick and thorny husks. The color of the skin is green, and the inside is yellow or white. Durian has the size of a soccer ball.

Dehydrate fruits

One of the problems facing anyone trying to eat healthier, especially for someone trying to move towards eating more raw foods is the convenience factor. Raw and natural foods are so much healthier for you, but it’s not as if there are drive-through raw foods restaurants on every street corner in the country.
And of course, there’s no such thing as a raw foods snack machine, is there? So if you get hungry during the day, you’re going to have a challenge of finding something appropriate to eat if you haven’t packed any raw fruits and vegetables. And when you’re rushing around in the morning, sometimes it’s next to impossible to find the time to put together a selection of healthy snacks to take with you.
One thing to try so that you have healthy snacks available quickly is to dehydrate your fruits or make fruit leathers. Those fruit roll-ups you see in the grocery store are derived from a pretty good idea – fruit leathers. But it’s better to make your own – commercial fruit leathers are going to be loaded with preservatives and sugars – just the things you want to avoid.
When you’re switching to a raw foods diet, that doesn’t always have to mean fresh off the farm. It means not cooking foods with processes that strip all the essential vitamins, amino acids and enzymes from them. Drying fruit is a great way to add variety to your diet and make yourself tasty snacks of dried fruit or fruit leathers. It’s not hard to do. There are recipes and inexpensive food dehydrators on the Web. These are also great snacks to pack for your kids’ lunches!
You get all the benefit of the raw fruit, just packaged and preserved in a healthy, nutritious way!

Fruitarian

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the value of a raw foods diet. A raw food diet consists primarily of uncooked, unprocessed fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seaweed, nuts and juices. It’s a vegetarian diet, but one that rejects any animal products. Its central tenet is that cooking and processing take out the majority of essential vitamins, enzymes and nutrients that our bodies evolved to thrive on.

Fruitarians, as the word implies, eat primarily fruits, with nuts and grains as well. A fruitarian diet also includes foods like tomatoes or avocadoes, which are fruits.

Fruit is nourishing and refreshing for your health. It doesn't clog the body's vital arteries; better still, it actually flushes and cleanses. A fruit diet also lightens our bodies and spirits, in line with the general lightening of our planetary vibration rate which many higher sources tell us is taking place at this time.

You need to eat carefully if you choose a fruitarian diet, because it can be more of a challenge to get enough essential protein in your diet. A fruitarian eats nothing which has been killed or stolen. That supplants meat, dairy, and plants with the thousands of fruit and nut combinations on the planet. E.g., a fruitarian can eat an avocado sandwich, a coconut milk shake or the purest coconut ice cream made from the milk and meat of the fruit, veggie burgers made of lentil or bean paste or tofu, a succotash of corn, limas, peas, and tomatoes, sweets made with pure maple syrup or date sugar, pecan pies made with fruit sugars, fruit shakes made of a mixture of orange and banana, pear and peach, pomegranate, papaya, and plum. A pizza of tofu, tomato, and pepper (not pepperoni), salads of tomato, cucumber, green and red peppers (but not lettuce, cabbage, or celery), nut butters such as almond butter or tahini, hummus {chickpea paste}. In other words, fruitarian may eat fruits 99.9% of the time, but occasionally do indulge in the delicacies of other food groups.

Fruit Cocktails

Cocktails made of a combination of fruits are often served as the first course of a meal, usually a luncheon or a dinner, to precede the soup course. In warm weather, they are an excellent substitute for heavy cocktails made of lobster or crab, and they may even be used to replace the soup course. The fruits used for this purpose should be the more acid ones, for the acids and flavors are intended to serve as an appetizer, or the same purpose for which the hot and highly seasoned soups are taken. Fruit cocktails should always be served ice cold.

Grapefruit cocktail

The cocktail here explained may be served in stemmed glasses or in the shells of the grapefruit. If the fruit shells are to be used, the grapefruit should be cut into two parts, half way between the blossom and the stem ends, the fruit removed, and the edges of the shell then notched. This plan of serving a cocktail should be adopted only when small grapefruits are used, for if the shells are large more fruit will have to be used than is agreeable for a cocktail.

2 grapefruits 2 oranges 1 c. diced pineapple, fresh or canned Powdered sugar

Remove the pulp from the grapefruits and oranges. However, if the grapefruit shells are to be used for serving the cocktail, the grapefruit should be cut in half and the pulp then taken out of the skin with a sharp knife. With the sections of pulp removed, cut each one into several pieces. Add the diced pineapple to the other fruits, mix together well and set on ice until thoroughly chilled. Put in cocktail glasses or grapefruit shells, pour a spoonful or two of orange juice over each serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar, garnish with a cherry, and serve ice cold.

Summer cocktail

As strawberries and pineapples can be obtained fresh at the same time during the summer, they are often used together in a cocktail. When sweetened slightly with powdered sugar and allowed to become ice cold, these fruits make a delicious combination.

2 c. diced fresh pineapple 2 c. sliced strawberries Powdered sugar

Prepare a fresh pineapple, and cut each slice into small pieces or dice. Wash and hull the strawberries and slice them into small slices. Mix the two fruits and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Place in cocktail glasses and allow to stand on ice a short time before serving.

Fruit cocktail

A fruit cocktail proper is made by combining a number of different kinds of fruit, such as bananas, pineapple, oranges, and maraschino cherries. Such a cocktail is served in a stemmed glass set on a small plate. Nothing more delicious than this can be prepared for the first course of a dinner or a luncheon that is to be served daintily. Its advantage is that it can be made at almost any season of the year with these particular fruits.

2 bananas 1 c. canned pineapple 2 oranges 1 doz. maraschino cherries Lemon juice Powdered sugar

Peel the bananas and dice them. Dice the pineapple. Remove the pulp from the oranges in the manner, and cut each section into several pieces. Mix these three fruits. Cut the cherries in half and add to the mixture. Set on ice until thoroughly chilled. To serve, put into cocktail glasses and add to each glass 1 tablespoonful of maraschino juice from the cherries and 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.