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Texas grapefruit can help lower your risk of developing some kinds of cancers. Simply eating a grapefruit each day is one of the best ways to protect yourself against developing some kinds of cancers, especially if you have a family history of cancer. Eating right, exercising, and adding grapefruit to your diet will make your body strong enough to resist a cancerous invasion. The vitamins and minerals in grapefruit along with the natural enzymes in the fruit help build up your immune system so your body can naturally fight off disease and illness. Eating Texas grapefruit also helps lower your…

When you're having a party or want to send just the right gift, add a navel orange to your edible delight. It doesn't matter where you are sending or delivering the basket; there is plenty of room even in Texas for a navel orange as part of an edible delight or a regular fruit basket. In fact, you can design your edible delight to go along with the various holidays and celebrations you are likely to encounter within the state. The usually mild weather than encompasses most of Texas allows for a longer season for the navel orange; the only…

Image by little black spot on the sun today via Flickr First seen on the island of Barbados in 1750, the grapefruit is one of the most recent additions to the citrus family of fruits. Officially, the grapefruit is a hybrid, a cross between the ancient Indonesian pomelo and the Jamaican sweet orange. The fruit was first cultivated on the island of Jamaica during the 17th century. Later, it made its way to Barbados and then to the United States. At the start, few people would actually buy grapefruit. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the…

The grapefruit diet has been around since the 1930's so this is not a new diet by any means. The grapefruit diet has also been called The Hollywood Diet and the Mayo Diet. No one is really sure who started the grapefruit diet since to date no one has clamed ownership of the diet. The grapefruit diet became worldwide because of word of mouth, online and in books. It has been stated that the grapefruit diet is based on the fact that eating grapefruit with some protein will burn fat and cause weight loss. The grapefruit diet burns fat and…

Consuming dried fruits instead of fresh fruit is a logical way to meet the body's daily nutritional needs in a convenient and fast way. Some stay away from dried fruits because they believe them to be high in sugar and fat content, when in fact they are not. The sugars found in them are the same ones, which are naturally found in fresh fruit. In reality, you will get the same amount of fruit nutrients in what seems like a smaller portion of dried fruit. Since the water is taken out of the fruit, it feels like you are eating…

Not only does grapefruit grow in Texas, but the Texas way of cooking and eating can provide endless new ways to eat grapefruit. You may already incorporate grapefruit into your daily diet, but doing so can become very boring. But these ways to eat grapefruit Texas style can change all that, and make eating this citrus wonder fun again. Almost all Texans love to barbecue and grill meat. But they also love to experiment with the grill. This includes grilling non traditional items such as fish and other seafood, vegetables and even fruit. Grilled citrus is yet another way to…

Image by zaveqna via Flickr The essential oils of citrus fruits have been used for decades as a natural health supplement. Since there is a large supply, the oils of these fruits are much cheaper than other essential oils. Citrus fruit rinds also contain large quantities of oil that can easily be extracted by cold compression. But which citrus-fruit oil should you buy? Today we are going to take a look at grapefruit essential oil. The grapefruit is the youngest member of the citrus fruit family. First documented on the island of Barbados in 1750, it is a hybrid fruit,…

Image via Wikipedia Grapefruits are unlike any other citrus fruit. They have a very distinctive taste, but they are also a power-food in terms of the nutrients they offer. If you enjoy a grapefruit with your breakfast, you're doing your body plenty of good and boosting your overall health. We owe the sunshine state big time for this nutrient-rich citrus fruit. Grapefruits come in a few different varieties, which we generally distinguish based on their color. A grapefruit's color is an indication of both the ripeness and genetics of the fruit. Both the species and age of a grapefruit can…