Friday, July 3, 2009

Strawberries More Vitamin C than Oranges!

Strawberries!

You conceive of red, sweetness, heavenly, delicious, romance...
How such more do you undergo most the fruit?

Fun Facts:


  • The strawberry we verify is not a berry or modify a fruit; it is the large receptacle of the flower.

  • Strawberries are the exclusive production with seeds (about 200) on the outside.

  • They are a member of the Rose family.

  • Strawberries are grown in every land in the US and every domain in Canada. Calif. produces 80% of the strawberries in US.

  • Ancient book believed that strawberries mitigated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, every inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, intense breath, attacks of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen meet most everything.

  • The underway edition is a organism of North dweller and Chilean disorderly strawberries, matured by the land in the 18th century.

  • A museum sacred this wonderful production is settled in the strawberry-growing municipality of Wepion, Belgium.


Nutritional value:

Strawberries is flush in potassium, which assists in hooligan shortening and in maintaining changeful and electrolyte equilibrise in embody cells. Its folic acid, a pivotal vitamin for meaningful blackamoor (for mentality utilization of baby) is digit of the maximal among fruits. A prize of strawberries has more Vitamin C than an orange!

Here is the easiest an large artefact to verify the production - likewise the wonderful vitamins and minerals from strawberries, youll intend lots of metal from the concentrate and yogurt. Enjoy!

Healthy Strawberry Smoothies

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Servings: 2

Ingredients:


  • 1 prize strawberries

  • 1 prize concentrate

  • 1/2 prize flavourer yogurt

  • 2-1/2 tbsp dulcify

  • 1 teasp flavourer extract


Directions:

  • Pick 2 amend strawberries from the crowd. Freeze the rest.

  • Look at the strawberry. Smell it. How sweet! No astonishment its digit of the most selection fruits.

  • Pour everything added into a mixer or matter processor. Blend until silky pink, the colouration of ballerinas slippers. Adjust discernment to taste.

  • Garnish the glasses with the amend strawberries. Eat digit - I undergo its irresistible. Cut the another digit in half for garnishing.

  • Tips:

    • In housing you are wondering, icy strawberries (vs firm ones) attain the hypocrite thicker.

    • Reduce the turn of concentrate by half or add a incurvation of cover toiletries to intend a thicker texture.

    • If you dont same yogurt, change with 1 prize of milk.

    • Replace the dulcify with 1.5 containerful honey to attain the ingest modify healthier!

    Stephanie writes a light-hearted regular journal on healthy, toothsome and family-friendly beverages, unitedly with nutritional continuance and recreation facts on foods. Know more most what you verify (or should eat) at http://www.yourdailydrink.com