22nd 01 - 2010 | no comment »

Dole Fruit Coupon – Free Printable Dole Fruit Coupon

Dole Fruit Coupon - Free Printable Dole Fruit Coupon

Print Your Free Dole Fruit Coupons Here

All of us are finding that food prices and groceries are steadily rising in price and many are using grocery coupons to save money on their housekeeping bills.

Grocery products, especially fruit and vegetables are so expensive for people now that any savings are welcomed.

It’s so easy to save money by using coupons on your daily shop and you can get your Dole Fruit coupons by clicking on the link above or below and finding the coupons that you need.

With the economy struggling people everywhere are looking for ways to save money and this can be achieved by cutting down on your outgoings.

One of the best ways to do this is by using grocery coupons to reduce your final bill at the cashiers desk of your grocery store.

Print Your Free Dole Fruit Coupons Here

The number of people out of work is so high at the moment and by using printable coupons you are able to save money every time you go shopping at your grocery shop.

Dole Fruit coupons are very popular because Dole fruit and vegetable products are consumed by many and are high on everyone’s shopping list. They give you a great discount off the in-store price.

If you have a computer and internet connection you can easily print free household coupons directly from your computer.

To use Dole fruit coupons all you have to do is print them from your computer and take them along to your nearest grocery store. Give the coupons over when you pay your bill and the amount will be deducted from the total.

What better and easier way is there to saving money, cutting down on your expenses and getting your favorite Dole fruit and vegetable products at a discount price.

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19th 01 - 2010 | no comment »

Tropical fruits: mangosteen, dragon fruit

If you like tropical fruits, you are definately like these amazing fruits like mangosteen and dragon fruit. Let’s talk more about it.

Mangosteen

This is not mango. This is mangosteen. The botanical name is Garcinia mangostana. It can be found in Southeast Asia, Central and South America. Mangosteen also named like “the queen of fruits” (Asia) and “the food of the Gods” (Caribbean). The rind of the fruit is red when it is ripe and not edible. The white edible flesh is very sweet and delicious and looks like garlic cloves. Among the raw fruit, the mangosteen juice is also very popular.

Mangosteen is rich in xanthones and fibre. The rind has also many useful elements that can help to cure some diseases such as tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, infected wounds, malaria, gonorrhoea and syphilis, hyperkeratosis, eczema, seborrhoea, psoriasis and such.

Dragon fruit

The dragon fruit has many names. Botanical name is Hylocereus undatus (red dragon fruit) and Selenicereus megalanthus (yellow dragon fruit). It also known as Pitaya or Pitahaya. It can be found in many tropical countries of Asia and Central America. Dragon fruit is a fruit of cacti. Dragon fruit cactus plant has big and very beautiful flowers that blooms only at night and pollinated by bats and moths.

Pitaya has white or red or yellow edible flesh with many small black seeds inside. The taste of fruit is very tenter and sweet. You can eat dragon fruit separately, add it to the fruit salad, ice cream, blend it  in a smoothie. There are many ways to eat pitahaya.

Dragon fruit has many vitamins, minerals and useful components: Vitamin C, vitamin b,  Fiber, Carotene, fat, ashes, calcium, riboflavin, protein, niacin, iron.

More about dragon fruit with pictures – http://dragon-fruit.biz/

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16th 01 - 2010 | no comment »

Is Canned Fruit Healthier Than Fresh Fruit?

Canned and fresh fruit are both very nutritious. Fresh fruit contains more fibre than canned fruit. Canned fruit often contains added sugars. These additives assist in not only preserving the fruit’s texture and freshness, but enhancing the fruit’s flavours so that the canned equivalent can more readily compare with its more expensive fresh counterparts — even in the off season months.

What Is With The Added Sugars?

Canned fruits contain added sugars. If these sugars were not added, the quality of the fruit would not be compromised, in terms of nutrition. The texture would be softer and the natural colours would fade.

Companies tend to market what people want to buy — people buy canned fruit as it requires little preparation, tastes sweet, and looks presentable. Without sugar, none of these criteria would be met.

If you are on a diet that suggests as little added sugar as possible, I would recommend buying fresh fruit.

What Happened To My Fibres?

Fruit out of a can will always contain fewer fibres than fresh fruit. This is because the skin is taken off the fruit before being canned, in order to allow for the fruit to be preserved for longer.

Fibres are a type of carbohydrate that cannot be digested by our bodies. They lower your chances of symptoms including but not limited to: heart disease, diabetes, and gastrointestinal maladies.

If you have got a higher chance than the average of getting the diseases listed above, fresh produce would be more beneficial to you, but that does not mean to say that canned fruit would harm you.

Get On With It! How Fresh Is My Fruit?

A lot of nutritional value is lost if the fruit you consume is not fresh. I am pretty certain that what I am about to tell you will come as a surprise.

Canned fruit, despite being older in age, is on a general basis fresher than “fresh” fruit. Canned fruit is picked when at its ripest, and packaged shortly thereafter.

This in theory makes canned fruit more fresh than fresh produce, but fresh produce in most circumstances contains more nutritional value (canned fruit is processed).

When you next visit the store, keep an eye out for cans of fruit that are preserved in their own juices and water. This is a much healthier alternative, when compared with fruit preserved in high fructose corn syrup.

Fresh or canned, fruit is healthy. Which is most healthy is relative to your dieting needs. A firm answer cannot be given to answer the presented question, so I will leave it in your hands to make an informed decision.

You now know enough to decide whether you should be eating canned or fresh fruit, but do you yet know what types of fruit you should be eating? Head on over to fruit nutrition facts and we’ll tell you.

Learn all about the healthiest available fruits over at http://www.fruitnutritionfacts.net, I’d love to keep that surprised look on your face.

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16th 12 - 2009 | no comment »

fructose malabsorption and fructose intolerance – maybe caused by fruit drinks – see why!

An article on the Gluten Free Pages site looks at how the increase in celiac disease victims could be caused by farmers over the last few hundred years purposely selecting varieties of grains that have abnormally high gluten levels. The purpose being to provide grains that will be turned into high gluten flours to assist bakers in keeping their breads and cakes together.

In a similar vein, consider that people who eat too much calorie rich food are prone to increased likelihoods of acquiring diabetes 2. Its not necessarily the foods, but the amount or concentrations that cause both diseases.

Some allergy reactions are believed to be traced to an increases in environmental pollutants lowering people’s resistance to certain allergies and diseases (changes in immune functioning). It appears that fructose malabsorptionand fructose intolerance may also be linked to a very simple ‘accidental’ increase in the concentration of fructose in certain foods in our diets. However, unlike the intentional increase in high concentration gluten grains, this increase in fructose has not been caused by a quest by farmers to pack more fructose into their fruits, the cause is seemingly further downstream.

While the following information is taken from a LA TIME article about the concerns of the over-consumption of fruit juice in our diets being linked to obesity, it also provides a good base for   my fructose conspiracy theory.

The logic goes a little like this:

1          In World War II, the US Army commissioned scientists to invent a system for freezing OJ in a concentrated form. The result was the “Minute Maid” patent that created cans of frozen juice concentrate.

2          In the 1950s, Tropicana developed pasteurization technology so that juice could be sold in refrigerated cartons like milk.

3          US TV fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne and other health experts branded juice as a natural medicine, and decades of advertising made drinking juice concentrate a staple in our diet.

4          By the 1900s, Florida citrus growers harvested more oranges than they could sell – and because you can easily drink the juice of many more oranges than you can eat whole, they decided to sell high concentrations of juice in many drinks including cola sodas. This push to sell fructose heavy drinks in the US soon spread around the world.

Consider that “when fructose is eaten in a piece of fruit, it enters the body slowly so the liver has time to convert it into chemical energy. But a single glass of apple juice has the fructose of six apples.” Ref 1

Besides the bulk increase of fructose density that our bodies were never meant to consume, the concentrates also lead to obesity concerns which can lead to diabetes 2. Curiously as US and Australian schools are outlawing soda drinks in school vending machines, juice drinks are taking their place (which have equal calories and often more fructose).

While juice does add vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients to our diet, fruit does the same, in much more appropriate concentrations. Raw fruit also contains many other nutrients that do not survive many drink manufacturing processes.

“A glass of juice concentrates all the sugar from several pieces of fruit. Ounce per ounce, it contains more calories than soda, though it tends to be consumed in smaller servings. A cup of orange juice has 112 calories, apple juice has 114, and grape juice packs 152, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The same amount of Coke has 97 calories, and Pepsi has 100.” 100% fruit juice poses the same obesity-related health risks as Coke, Pepsi and other widely vilified beverages. Ref 1

Now most of the main reference article is written with a view to warning people about the affects of concentrated fruit juice on weight gain, however as a fructose intolerance or malabsorptionperson should now understand, drinking fruit juice (concentrate) can directly relate to how you may have acquired your condition in the first place.

The author of this GFP article loves fruit and realises that this affair was fostered in childhood where his father grew many varieties of fruit trees in his home yard. As many people do not have this background it is easy to understand that parents with guilty consciences may think that substituting juice concentrate regularly into a diet is a clever way of getting ‘healthy food’ easily into everyone’s diet. However an overdose of concentrate is equivalent to an overdose of fructose, which “may” contribute to the early onset of fructose intolerance or malabsorption.

 As a society we are much more aware of the way that all types of fats need to be controlled in our diets, however ‘good’ sugar variety levels are much lesser known and fructose can be concealed in many sources. It may be that adding fruit juice concentrate to your diet just exceeds the healthy daily allowance of fructose from all sources.

Consider the following list of “Foods highest in Fructose” (based on levels per 200-Calorie serving) that Ref 2 has compiled:

 1 Carbonated beverage, cola, with higher caffeine [pop, soda, soft drink] Fructose: 29760mg

 2 Carbonated beverage, cola, without caffeine [pop, soda, soft drink] Fructose: 29760mg

3 Carbonated beverage, lemon-lime soda, contains caffeine [pop, soft drink, white soda] Fructose: 28634mg

9 Carbonated beverage, SPRITE, lemon-lime, without caffeine [pop, soft drink, white soda] Fructose: 25954mg

10 Juice, apple and grape blend, with added ascorbic acid Fructose: 25837mg

FIVE of the TOP TEN FRUCTOSE CULPRITS ARE SODA DRINKS AND FRUIT JUICE CONCENTRATE.

 

CONCLUSION

Now consider the radical concept of avoiding high density gluten grains and products to starve off the risk of acquiring gluten intolerance (this may not help reducing the chance of acquiring coeliac / celiac disease as much as this is believed to be gene related). To avoid fructose intolerance, perhaps sticking to a non soda, non fruit juice concentrate diet is a good idea. Particularly as many drinks do not specify what type of sugar is included, nor do many people know what a ‘safe’ level of fructose in concentrate should be.

Imagine something that has been promoted for decades as a health panacea actually causing an illness, just because of its high concentration levels. With the high cost of fruit, and in particular organic fruit, it is easy to understand how buying fruit juice concentrate may seem like a healthy alternative. While the concept of avoiding or limiting juice concentrate in your diet and children’s diet may seem controversial I recommend that you read the article in the reference in full and make up your own mind.

 

References

1             http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-juice8-2009nov08,0,5809992,full.story

2             http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000011000000000000000.html

In the last few years I have had a strong interest in e-marketing and website optimization. My strongest desire is to be working in the sustainability industry which causes large reductions in greenhouse gases. Save the planet, save the people. Find other great gluten free articles at www.glutenfreepages.com.au or visit my Market Analysis site www.brucedwyer.com CHEERS!

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