If you can still love or dislike vegetables, everyone probably loves fruits. And this is great, because fruits also contain many vitamins and nutrients necessary for the normal functioning of the human body. Compotes are made from fruits, jams and jams are boiled, but it is best to eat them raw and, preferably, with the skin, if it is edible.
Fruit growing in Russia
The most popular and affordable fruit for Russians is an apple, it grows well both in the northern regions of the country and in the south. Today, more than 7, 500 apple varieties are cultivated in the world, from baby crayfish the size of a cherry to giant varieties weighing more than a kilogram. If you want to lower cholesterol by 16% and your risk of heart attack by 32%, eat 2 medium-sized apples a day. It is believed that it was the apple that was taken by Eve from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but modern Bible interpreters believe that there was a confusion due to the fact that the words mălum (evil) and mālum (apple) are consonant. The last version of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they tend to consider figs, whose leaves the first people covered their nakedness.
Plum is also a common fruit in Russia, which is distinguished by a variety of colors. Plums come in green, yellow, orange, red, purple and gray-black. It is an excellent laxative and powerful antioxidant that slows down the aging process and prevents the formation of cancer cells. There is a lot of vitamin E in the plum, it is necessary to maintain skin tone. The extract from the plum seeds contains up to 42% fatty oil, which is added to cosmetic creams.
Exotic fruits
Shocked Europeans decided to call the oranges, first brought to Europe from China, golden Chinese apples, therefore the word "orange" is a derivative of two German "apfels" - an apple, "sina" - China. It was also easier for the British to perceive the exotic fruits brought from the colonies, if you call them the usual word - an apple, so the pineapple in English is called "pineapple" - a spruce apple.
The EU, at the legislative level, has produced all the vegetables from which jams and jams are made into fruits. Now fruits in Europe are considered tomatoes, carrots, rhubarb, sweet potato, cucumbers, pumpkin and even ginger.
A lot of interesting things can be said about citrus fruits. For example, lemon juice will cleanse the body and help remove toxins from it; essential oil contained in tangerine, improves immunity and improves skin condition; orange protects tooth enamel from tooth decay.
Grapefruit juice categorically can not be washed down with drugs - it is able to enhance their effect by 2-3 times.
"The King of Fruits" is called durian. The smell is very strong and disgusting, but the taste is really great. Durian pulp is used in the preparation of salads, fruit cocktails, added to flour products. This fruit is incompatible with alcohol, as it itself has a strong tonic and aphrodisiac effect.
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