John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  Besides utilizing the large abundance of tropical fruits growing in the wild, the Chama and Macuna also grew passion fruit, tomatoes, watermelons, pumpkins of several varieties, yams, taro, and beans.
When fully ripened on the vine, the passion fruit was picked, peeled, and the seeds removed. The soft flesh and juice was then put into a small wooden trough, which had been previously carved out of a section of log. A club-like stick with an enlarged rounded end was used to pound the fruit to a watery pulp. | | While juices contain virtually no fat, their calories can add up pretty fast, especially so with tropical fruits.
Remember that while you may be retaining the fiber along with natural sugars in sweet juices, there is still a chance of upsetting your body's blood sugar levels if you suffer from diabetes or hypoglycemia. It's a good idea in such cases to sip only a small amount of a particularly sweet juice at any given time. Then, after a while you'll be able to tell whether or not your body is reacting adversely to whatever you drank. | | Surprisingly enough, a sliver of habanero has a wonderful, distinctive flavor with tropical fruit tones that mix well with food containing tropical fruits or tomatoes. A smidgen of fresh habanero juice in papaya, mango, pineapple or passion fruit juices is just enough to sing the chorus line from the Broadway musical hit "Hello Dolly!" in your gastrointestinal tract to get things moving in a positive direction.
Jalapeno (Green and Red). This chile is named after the town of Jalapa in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz. |
Lesley Tierra
See book keywords and concepts |  Cold drinks, ice cream, tropical fruits and raw salads and foods are all cold in nature and so have a cooling effect on the body. These should be avoided in Winter.
Herbs which are internally warming and strengthening are best in this season such as cinnamon, dry ginger, fenugreek, cornus, dioscorea, ho shou wu and rehmannia. Many of these herbs can be cooked with food in soup form, an excellent way to increase nutrition and strengthen the body's reserves. (Refer to the chapter on Herbal Preparations for directions on making soups.)
Salty is the Water element taste. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
See book keywords and concepts | | Low-Glycemic Foods (fine to eat in abundance)
• All fresh and frozen fruits, except for dried fruits, most tropical fruits, and most melons (see high-glycemic foods listed below for exceptions).
• All fresh and frozen vegetables, except for corn and most root vegetables (see list of high-glycemic foods listed below for exceptions).
• All beans, peas, and legumes (dried and fresh varieties are better than canned).
• Selected breads (sprouted grain, whole grain rye, and whole wheat tortillas).
• Selected cereals (bran, slow-cooking oatmeal). |
Carl C. Pfeiffer
See book keywords and concepts |  Adults
In addition to natural foods, adults usually need extra zinc, manganese, and vitamin C. tropical fruits can be used as a source of manganese. |
Stephanie Beling
See book keywords and concepts |  There are the tropical fruits, like papayas and pineapples, redolent of lush, humid islands brushed by warm ocean breezes. Chilled, these fruits help to cool us when it's hot. Then there are the cool-weather fruits—apples and pears—that hint of crisp coolness; we even think of their color as "autumnal." These fruits lend themselves well to cooking, which is especially nice for fall and winter eating; they fill pies and tarts, and can be baked, glazed, poached, or flambeed.
We can classify fruits by what they wear, by their texture, by how they taste. |
Annemarie Colbin
See book keywords and concepts |  One of my students, who is Chinese, wrote a paper about "hot" and "cold" foods as used by her mother and grandmother: Meat, fried foods, spices, and tropical fruits were considered "hot," and forbidden if someone had a fever; seasonal fruits and vegetables, soupy rice (congee), and pears were considered "cold" and were used to treat fevers.12
The Ayurvedic medicine of India holds that one of the main properties of foods is that of virya, or the ability to warm or cool the body. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Many imported foods, particularly tropical fruits, are sprayed or fumigated to keep bugs away during shipping. Spraying with pesticides is not uncommon for fruits such as papayas, mangoes, and pineapples. Bananas are less likely to be sprayed but may be gassed or fumigated before they are shipped.
Spraying after harvesting is of concern because of the high concentrations of the chemicals on the foods when they get to the consumer. Dieldrin, a toxic organochloride pesticide that was banned in 1974, used to be sprayed on produce after harvesting to prevent insect infestation. |
Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
See book keywords and concepts |  Called the Gene Revolution, this bag of biotechnological tricks will supposedly enable tropical fruits to be grown in cold-temperate climes by splicing freeze-resistant genes into their germ-plasm and will turn maize and other nitrogen-consuming cereal crops into nitrogen-fixing plants by stitching into them genes from legumes. Although skepticism about such facile claims is mounting, the combined budget of all the crop genetic engineering firms in North America and Europe has already eclipsed the funds expended by the Green Revolution breeding centers at their peak. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  Equally good are tasty tropical fruits such as mangoes and papayas. Bananas constitute an excellent fiber-rich source of carbohydrate.
Question: What is protopectin and why is it so important?
Answer: If you've had a grapefruit or orange for breakfast, you've had this beneficial two-carbohydrate food factor that is exciting considerable interest in biochemistry circles. The pulp of all citrus fruit contains this combination of cellulose plus pectin. Even vegetables are an occasional secondary source. |
Stephanie Beling
See book keywords and concepts | | The citrus fruits, berries, melons, tropical fruits, and the yellows and oranges—apricots, peaches, nectarines, mangoes—are particularly good Vitamin C sources.
To all this must now be added the evidence that current research is yielding about the phytochemical power in the red, yellow, and orange fruits. Beta carotene, for all its newsworthiness, is only one of the 600-plus carotenoids that have thus far been identified by scientists. Carotenoids are serious antioxidants, but that is not all they do. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts |  Today, it is grown in Florida and California.
See tropical fruits.
MONUKKA RAISIN
An especially large grape, the monukka is an old variety used specifically for drying. It makes a large raisin with a pleasing, mellow sweetness. Compared to the more intensely sweet common raisin (made from Thompson grapes), monukkas are pricier and more subtly ffavored.
See Raisin.
MOREL
(Morchella esculenta)
The morel is a small, conical mushroom crisscrossed with irregular pale brown ridges that produce a spongelike appearance. When fresh, the stalk is whitish; it darkens when old. | | MANGO
(Mangifera indica)
Sensuously sticky and lush, the mango is one of the most popular tropical fruits, after the banana and coconut. It is a cashew relative and grows on an evergreen tree. The mango has a smooth, leathery skin colored green, yellow, or red. Mangos are generally round to oval and vary in weight from six ounces to one and a half pounds. The juicy orange-colored flesh clings to a large, flat stone. The U.S. domestic crop, which grows in Florida, California, and Hawaii, is in season during the summer. Out-of-season mangos are imported. | | Emily Eterson, writing for the Natural Foods Merchandiser (February 1995), noted that tropical fruits that are exceptionally sweet, that have a translucent or glazed quality, or that leave a gritty residue when rubbed between your fingers are probably sweetened. Apparently customs officials check for contraband, infestation, and quality but rarely check that labels and products match. les. Sulfur compounds destroy all the B vitamins. In sensitive individuals, they cause allergic reactions and, in some cases, death. Asthmatics are especially at risk. | | This is a sobering thought, especially considering that the FDA in 1986 banned the use of sulfites on fresh produce but still permits it in dried fruits, wine, and pick-
HONEY-DIPPING A MANGO IS LIKE GILDING THE LILY
Corn syrup or sugar is routinely added to tropical fruits even though the label may say "honey-dipped," "unsweetened," or "fruit-juice sweetened." The fruit is soaked in a sugar-water solution until it is saturated to 80 percent sugar. Such fruits may appear in granola and trail mixes. |
Rex Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Two other men, one 102 and the other 110, said they knew him when they were boys, his diet consisted entirely of tropical fruits, including mango.
In another case, a 104-year-old great-great-grandmother traveled 72 miles to New York to visit her old neighborhood, without assistance, and claimed that her secret was a teaspoon of crushed garlic and vodka twice daily. "The garlic brings the blood pressure down," she said, "and the vodka helps the circulation."4 In yet another case, a 90-year-old ice deliverer in New York was still working twelve-hour days, starting at 3 a.m. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The simple ones are extracted from tropical fruits: bromelain from pineapple and papain from papayas. Papain has a mild, soothing effect on the stomach and aids in protein digestion. Bromelain is probably more important; it is an anti-inflammatory enzyme useful in posttraumatic responses and swelling and after surgery. It is also part of an antiaging program as it reduces tissue irritation. This proteolytic enzyme of pineapple also has several actions that make it helpful in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
See book keywords and concepts |  But there are many exceptions amongst the hundreds of fruits to all of these generalizations. tropical fruits cannot be lumped into discrete classes of large-seeded K-strategists and small-seeded r-strategists. There is a continuum of strategies, and simple generalizations refer only to the end points.
Arils are a good example of an intermediate tactic along this continuum. Many leguminous trees produce hard-coated seeds about the size of common peas and beans; but instead of wrapping them in a costly thick fruit, they wrap a thin brightly colored nutritious coat around them. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | However, it is more difficult to find organic tropical fruits from Hawaii or Mexico, for example, than it is the more locally cultivated ones, such as apples or oranges, possibly because of the higher amounts of insects and germs that also thrive in those climates.
Unusual and Special Fruits
Avocados Persimmons
Kiwis Pomegranates
Olives
These fruits—foods that grow on trees and that contain inner seeds, do not clearly fit into the other categories I have discussed. None of these are eaten commonly, other than olives possibly by some people. | | Some other less common varieties of tropical fruits are cherimoya, lychee, and zapote.
Bananas. Bananas have the number one vote as Americans' favorite fruit. They are commonly recommended as a potassium source in those patients on potassium dosing diuretic therapy. Bananas are almost completely carbohydrate. They contain many vitamins and minerals, including iron, selenium, and magnesium.
Bananas are used in flavoring for desserts, as in banana splits or banana bread, in breakfast cereals, or even in sandwiches. | | Fruits fall into such categories as citrus fruits, melons, berries, tropical fruits, dried fruits, and many common fruits such as apples and pears. Most fruits grow on trees, but some are found on bushes (berries) or on ground vines (melons). Most fruits follow the flower of the plant and are available during the summer, late summer, and autumn, though there are exceptions.
Fruits have also been categorized as sweet, subacid, and acid. The sweet fruits are mainly the dried fruits, such as raisins and figs, and some tropical ones, such as bananas. Most juicy fruits are considered subacid. | | Lower levels ofvitamin B2 are found in cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, apples, figs, berries, grapes, and tropical fruits.
Functions: Riboflavin functions as the precursor or building block for two coenzymes that are important in energy production. Flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) are the two coenzymes that act as hydrogen carriers to help make energy as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. |
John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  PAPAYA (See tropical fruits.)
PAPRIKA (See CAYENNE.)
PARSLEY {Petroselinum crispum)
Brief Description
Parsley is a non-hairy biennial or short-lived perennial with a much-branched stem. A thin., white, spindle-shaped root produces the erect, grooved, glabrous, angular stem that can reach a height of slightly over 2 feet. The plant is often cultivated as an annual for its foliage, especially in California, Germany, France, Belgium and Hungary. There are numerous varieties. Parts used are the ripe fruits (seeds), the above-ground herb and the leaves. | | PINEAPPLE (See tropical fruits.)
PISTACHIO (See NUTS.)
PLUMS AND PRUNES (Prunus domestical
Brief Description
Plums aire the most diverse and widely distributed of all stone fruits, with varieties suitable to almost any climatic condition; in fact, they are grown on every continent except Antarctica. Most commercially grown plums are descendants of either European or Japanese varieties. The European plums, oval or round in shape, include all the purple to black varieties (such as the El Dorado) as well as the smaller, greenish-yellow, richly flavored Green Gage. | | GUAVA (See tropical fruits.)
H
HAWTHORN (See under BERRIES.)
HAZELNUT (See under NUTS.)
HICKORY NUT (See under NUTS.)
HOLLEYHOCK (See under ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS.)
HONEY AND OTHER BEE FOODS
Brief Description
It takes about 300 bees 3 weeks to gather one pound of honey for your table. Most of the honey made by the bees remains in the hive for their own consumption, but one out of every 3 lbs. is carefully removed by die beekeeper. Using a heated knife, the beekeeper loosens honey, beeswax and sections of honeycomb and collects them in a container. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts | | Its high sugar content and lush flavor make it one of the most popular tropical fruits. Early Spanish explorers named this fruit pina because it is shaped like a pine-cone.
The pineapple is a symbol of hospitality and often appears in household art motifs. Start noticing these pineapples and you'll soon see them on everything from brass door knockers to light fixtures.
Health Benefits The pineapple is cooling; it aids digestion of starches and protein; and it destroys intestinal parasites. |
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