Image via Wikipedia Most people know that fruit is healthy. Chock-full of vitamins and minerals, it may just be the perfect food. But which kind of fruit is best? In this article we are going to discuss a relatively new addition to the citrus family of fruits, the grapefruit. Why buy grapefruit? Known primarily as a breakfast fruit, the grapefruit is one of the most popular fruits in the world. Each year, more than five million tons are shipped around the world, half of which come from the United States. How has the grapefruit attained such success in spite of…
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Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia The grapefruit is one of the most popular fresh fruits in America. Each year, more than one and a half million tons are shipped from Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona. Unlike the orange, the grapefruit has never been particularly popular as a fruit juice. And it's a good thing, too–it is much healthier to eat grapefruit than to drink its juice. In this article we will discuss the many health benefits of the grapefruit. Like most citrus fruits, the grapefruit comes in many different varieties. More often than not, these varieties are determined by the color of…
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Continue ReadingThe grapefruit came to Texas in the late nineteenth century with little fanfare and low expectations. The exotic island fruit had been a flop in Florida, where it was deemed too sour for general consumption. But orchard owners in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas were willing to take a chance on it. They had been growing citrus for generations and had been unable to establish a commercial industry. Farmers put their faith in the grapefruit. The first Texas grapefruit crop was harvested in 1893. Once again, it failed to impress local fruit lovers. People wanted fruit that was…
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Continue ReadingWhen was the last time you thought long and hard about grapefruit calories? Not for awhile? Well, the time has come to stop feeling so sluggish and put down the junk foods and pick up a juicy and ripe grapefruit! Grapefruit calories are so low it is just one of the reasons they have the ability to make a transformation on the way your body feels each day. How your body functions through the day is just one aspect of judging how healthy a person really is. If you feel tired often or you cannot seem to stay on top…
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Continue ReadingIf you have done any kind of research on the benefits of grapefruit fiber, you likely know that it is great for lowering cholesterol, strokes, and even heart attacks. This means it could potentially be a life saver. And though this is probably the biggest and maybe even best benefit of grapefruit fiber, it is certainly not the only one. Grapefruit fiber has a whole host of other great healthy benefits besides heart healthy ones. If you know a diabetic, there is a good chance that they can tell you some of the benefits of grapefruit fiber for their condition.…
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Continue ReadingIf you have a lot of people to shop for this holiday season use fruit delivery to ensure all your gifts arrive on time and save yourself a lot of hassle and money. Shopping for holiday gifts can take up a lot of your time, especially if you need to drive around town to different stores or spend an entire afternoon at the mall shopping for gifts for many different people. After those gifts are purchased you have to get shipping supplies, wrap the gifts, prepare for them for shipping, and then take them to the post office and pay…
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Every morning all across America millions of folks dig into a juicy grapefruit for breakfast. They not only know how good a grapefruit taste but they’re probably also aware of all the amazing health benefits they receive from a daily dose of the citrus. Grapefruits are loaded with vitamin C, potassium, calcium and iron. Those are needed to keep your skin glowing, stop a cold from taking old and strengthen your bones. A grapefruit is also full of body building minerals and other nutrients that help lower cholesterol, keep the heart pumping and push away cancer cells. All of that…
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Continue ReadingThere are all kinds of dietary supplements that you can find on a shelf. Grocery stores, vitamin shops, even places in the mall all seem to carry different supplements. One type of supplement that is just recently catching on is grapefruit pectin. It is still relatively an unknown supplement compared to vitamins, minerals and herbs that you might find on the same shelves. But grapefruit pectin has a ton of health benefits and does not even have to be taken in supplemental form. In fact, eating raw grapefruit or some of its byproducts can also garner the benefits of grapefruit…
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Continue ReadingIf you need to lose weight but you can't make any huge lifestyle changes due to work and family obligations Texas grapefruit can help you lose weight. Often people who want to lose weight put off going on a diet because they can't afford to change the way they eat or they don't have time to exercise more because they have school or work or family obligations or all of those commitments which make it tough to make big changes in how they live. But just adding delicious Texas grapefruit to your diet is enough to get you started losing…
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Continue ReadingGrapefruit calories, being an intense power fruit on its own can add benefit to your every day life in more ways then just mere ingestion of the fruit. Scientists, botanists and nutritionists have teamed up together to extract the healthiest, most concentrated benefits of a grapefruit calories from the seed into its purest form – and that is grapefruit seed extract. Taking grapefruit calories seed extract orally has intense, and almost instant benefits. Its known to reject any type of infections from harnessing on your body. This goes for internally and externally. It helps your body create a defense against…