Sunday, October 18, 2009

Dried Fruits and Nuts the Best to Snack On


At around snack time say around 4 p.m - 5 p.m (approx) everybody is hungry and what to pop-in some snacks into their mouth. The most usual thing that most people eat at snack time is chips, candy, patties, chocolates etc. All these snacks are not bad but we should take care while choosing our snacks, we can have much better options or choices to choose from which are more beneficial for our body.

Here we are going to discuss about dried fruits and nuts which have lots of benefit upon all other snack items. By consuming such snacks we will develop a good immune system and also increase the nutritional intake. Some of the reasons why should we opt for dried fruits and nuts are as follows:

Dried Fruits are sweeter than others:

The reason why people eat candies and chocolates is due to the higher sugar content in them, and surely and apple cannot replace a chocolate bar. But, dried fruits can be a replacement to a chocolate bar. The reason is because the water is removed and it is concentrated, maintaining its health or nutritional value.

Fiber Rich Dried Fruits and Nuts:

Both dried fruits and nuts are great source of fibers, and offer number of health benefits like it fills your stomach and satisfy your hunger with improving digestion. It also reduces constipation and helps in regular bowel movements. The fiber source helps in fully absorbing vitamins and minerals for the body.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Dried fruits And Its Magnificance

Dried fruit means that the fruit has been dried to eliminate the fruit’s moisture of that, either naturally or through use of different machines.

dried fruit

Nuts, Almonds, and Macadamias are examples of popular dried fruits. Other fruits such as apples, apricots, bananas, cherries, cranberries, figs, kiwi, mangoes, pawpaw, peaches, pears, persimmons, pineapples, strawberries, and tomatoes come into the dried fruits category after drying some moisture of that.

dried fruits

When fresh fruit is unavailable in out of season, dried fruit can give an option. It is often take as a baking mixes and breakfast cornflakes. As fresh fruits contains vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B6, antithetic acid), dried fruit also rich in vitamins (antithetic acid) and nutritional minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese).

Packed with iron, fiber, natural sugar and protein, these dry fruits will supply you with energy and will also satisfy your hunger. They are simple to grasp and clean the blood and the digestive part. Dry fruit contain significant quantities of essential nutrients in a rational amount. This natural diet will always provide good health to the person. Though nuts are small in size, amount of power they provide when consumed make them very immense.

Dried fruits And Its Magnificance

Dried fruit means that the fruit has been dried to eliminate the fruit’s moisture of that, either naturally or through use of different machines.

dried fruit

Nuts, Almonds, and Macadamias are examples of popular dried fruits. Other fruits such as apples, apricots, bananas, cherries, cranberries, figs, kiwi, mangoes, pawpaw, peaches, pears, persimmons, pineapples, strawberries, and tomatoes come into the dried fruits category after drying some moisture of that.

dried fruits

When fresh fruit is unavailable in out of season, dried fruit can give an option. It is often take as a baking mixes and breakfast cornflakes. As fresh fruits contains vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B6, antithetic acid), dried fruit also rich in vitamins (antithetic acid) and nutritional minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese).

Packed with iron, fiber, natural sugar and protein, these dry fruits will supply you with energy and will also satisfy your hunger. They are simple to grasp and clean the blood and the digestive part. Dry fruit contain significant quantities of essential nutrients in a rational amount. This natural diet will always provide good health to the person. Though nuts are small in size, amount of power they provide when consumed make them very immense.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Bulk Dried Fruits As Cherries

Cherries

The cherry is the sweet fruit of the sort Prunus. It is a fleshy fruit that contains a single rocky seed, and the fleshy tissue of the eroded cherry is known as cherry meat when ground up and pressed together. The Dried fruits of commerce are usually founded from a limited number of

species, including especially wild cherry, Prunus avian.

bulk cherries

The name of this dry fruit ‘cherry’, often as the term ‘cherry tree’, may also be applied to many other members of the genus Prunus, or to all members of the species as a collective term. The fruits of many of these species are not cherries, but they have other common names, including plum, apricot, peach and more. The name ‘cherry‘ is also frequently used in position to cherry blossom.

True cherry fruits are borne by members of the subgenus Cerasus and by having a smooth fruit with only a weak listen or none along one side. The subgenus is citizen to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia.

dried fruits

The majority of eating cherries are derived from Prunus avium, the wild cherry, and sweet cherry or from Prunus cerasus, the sour cherry.

The Tart cherries are a great dried fruit snack. They are lightly sweetened and are delightfully plump. They are very versatile and can be used for baking and available as bulk cherries and delicious Milk Chocolate Covered Cherries are very hard to resist.

Cherries have a short growing season and can grow in most temperate environment. In Australia they are growing in Christmas time, in southern Europe in June, in North America in June, in south British Columbia (Canada) in July-mid August and in the UK in mid July, always in the summer season. In many parts of North America they are among the first tree fruits to ripen.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Macadamia Nuts: Food Crop

Raw Whole Macadamias
Macadamia is a class of nine species of flowering plants and belong to the family proteaceae. This is a evergreen trees growing to 2–12 m tall. The leaves are arranged in whorls of three to six, lanceolate to obovate or elliptical in shape, 6–30 cm long and 2–13 cm wide. The flowers are produced in a long slight simple 5–30 cm long, the individual flowers 10–15 mm long and the color is white to pink or purple, with four tepals. The fruit is a very hard woody follicle with a pointed apex, containing one or two seeds.

The nuts are a valuable food crop. Only two of the species Macadamia integrifolia and Macadamia tetraphylla are of viable importance.

Milk Chocolate Covered Whole Macadamias

Macadamias are greatly nutritious nuts. They have the highest amount of beneficial monounsaturated fats of any known nut. They also contain 9% protein, 9% carbohydrate, 2% dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, selenium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. The high content of “cushiony” palmitoleic acid plus macadamia’s high oxidative stability makes it a desirable ingredient in cosmetics, especially skincare.

Macadamia is commercially produced in Australia, South Africa, Brazil, California, Costa Rica, Israel, Kenya, Bolivia, New Zealand and Malawi. Australia is now the world’s largest commercial producer – at approximately 40,000 tonnes of nut in shell per year, with a total global production of 100,000 tonnes and Brazil nuts are also very famous.