Let’s celebrate summer with this sippable superfruit. Grapefruit is one of those fruits that has come in and out of healthy eating consciousness for decades. It was a breakfast table staple for your grandma’s generation and yet it fits in perfectly with today’s focus on nutrient-dense foods. It’s time to take another look at this superfruit.
But before anything else...
#summer2016 cheers to this.
Ingredients:
4 oz of fresh squeezed Grapefruit Juice
1 oz. silver tequila1/2 oz. grapefruit liqueur
1/4 oz. simple syrup
Raspberry for garnish
Himalayan salt
Lime
Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Run a lime wedge around the rim of a glass to moisten, then dip glass into a shallow layer of Himalayan salt. Gently shake off excess.
2. Fill same glass with ice, then strain drink mixture into the glass.
3. Garnish with raspberries and serve.
Grapefruit Benefits for Diseases:
- Appetite Loss: Grapefruit works as an excellent appetizer as compared to any other drug. It is said that smell of the grapefruit reduces the feeling of hunger. This is the reason why people include grapefruit in their weight loss programs. High fiber contained by this fruit can satisfy hunger and thus, avoids any overeating temptation.
- Fever: The pulp or the juice of grapefruit provides assistance to the patient to recover easily from the fever. It reduces burning sensations that occurs during high temperature. It also cures several cases of cold and phenomena. Grapefruit juice, if combined with water, can quench the thirst.
- Fatigue: Grapefruit is beneficial in the treatment of fatigue. It helps you to dispel your fatigue and general tiredness caused due to routine work. It can bring about a refreshing feeling in you when you drink equal amounts of grapefruit juice and lemon juice.
- Acidity: The fresh grapefruit juice has alkaline reaction after digestion. The citric acid of the fruit is tarnished in the human body and thus, increases the effect of the alkalinity reaction after digestion. The juice extracted from the grapefruit is beneficial in preventing the acid formation and many other diseases that arise due to the presence of acidity in the body.
- Indigestion: Grapefruit is useful for solving the problem of indigestion. It is very light as compared to other food articles and thus, acts immediately on indigestion by easing the heat and irritation caused in the stomach. It improves the flow of digestive juices, thereby improving the digestive systems.
- Insomnia: A simple glass of grapefruit juice, if drunk before going to bed, can promote healthy and sweet sleep and thus, alleviates insomnia.
- Diabetes: A diabetic patient can safely eat a grapefruit. The consumption of this fruit can reduce the starches from the body. If a patient is diabetic, intake of grapefruit can facilitate you to fight with this health issue.
- Constipation: A glass full of fresh squeezed grapefruit in the morning is the best remedy to control the constipation. They result best in stimulating the colon and other parts of the body.
- Flatulence: 10 to 20 drops of grapefruit seeds in the juice, taken before meals and three times a day, work as an appropriate pro-biotic and digestive enzyme.
Any way you cut it, the bright, familiar flavor of grapefruit is being dished up—or sipped up—in modern ways—creating a new wave of appreciation for the sour-sweet superfruit.
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Cheers
Gia
Greenmouth Green lifestyle
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