Health Tips

Lettuce Juice Benefits Lettuce has been cultivated as both food and medicine for thousands of years; yet, today, it is best known as a low-calorie salad ingredient with a light crunch. Some even mock this extraordinary plant species by calling it “rabbit food”. Fortunately, our ancient ancestors knew better, and modern science is backing up their beliefs. Below, I have listed the health and wellness benefits that have made lettuce popular around the world for millennia. Most Noted Lettuce Benefits Anti-inflammatory properties Antioxidant properties Antimicrobial properties Relieves anxiety Helps induce sleep Lowers cholesterol levels Protects neurons Lettuce contains anti-inflammatory properties that have been shown, in experimental models, to have “significant controlling power over inflammation induced by biocatalysts like lipoxygenase and carrageenan.”1 Lipoxygenase and carrageenan are natural inflammatory agents found in a variety of foods and even personal care products. Most a...

Star Fruit Benefits I was first introduced to starfruit or as it is otherwise known — Carambola while visiting a friends farm in Kerala two weeks ago. A lone, fully-grown tree was giving us copious amounts of fruit and I soon fell in love with it. The word carambola is derived from the Sanskrit word karmaranga meaning “food appetizer”. Star fruit was called carambola in the Malayalam language, and when the Portuguese took it to Africa and South America they kept the original name. It’s a bit hard to find to find in shops and markets but there are so many ways to source fresh produce straight from farmers these days. The whole fruit is edible and it is super sweet and tasty once it is ripe! It has a juicy, sweet, sour taste. You can turn it into a jam or a pickle if you’d like to store it for longer. Each fruit contains on average 26.2 kcal, 6.2 kcal of carbohydrate, 2.5g of dietary fibre, 0.3g of fat, 3.6g of sugar and 0.9g of protein. Carambola fruit is an extremely low-calor...

Finger Lime Benefits Scientific name — Citrus australasica Finger lime is scientifically known as Citrus australasica is a rainforest plant grown and sited mainly in regions of South East Queensland also on ranges of Northern NSW. This tree naturally grows in places like an understorey place as a shrub that grows as tall as 6 meters in height on a varied range of soil type. Distinctive feature of the tree These trees grow to be thorny and are known to produce very unique finger shaped fruit known as the finger lime. The fruit grows as long as 12cm with a green yellow shaded skin and fleshy pulp inside it. This fruit can also sometimes produce a pink � red flesh that occurs absolutely naturally to them. This distinct coloured finger lime is known as Citrus australasica var. sanguinea. When these plants are not cultivated domestically, they grow in the wilds. These wild growing finger limes are very different from the domestic ones mainly because of the genetic variation. Apart f...