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03/22/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Nine reasons to eat an orange (plus a recipe for orange salad dressing)

A versatile fruit, the orange offers other benefits aside from abundant levels of vitamin C. Various scientific studies have determined that oranges have a lot of medicinal properties. Oranges contain a lot of compounds that are good for your health. Below are nine of its “well-established therapeutic applications” which are detailed in three sections – the aroma, the […]

02/27/2018 / By Zoey Sky

No sweets or juice on an empty stomach: Sugars, including fructose, harm the good bacteria in your gut in the absence of food

It looks like it’s better to wait until after you’ve eaten breakfast before you drink some orange juice. According to researchers, drinking fruit juice on an empty stomach “overwhelms the digestive system.” The results from a U.S. study implies that this can upset the “good bacteria” in your gut. The scientists have determined that fruit juice contains […]

02/04/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Bananas for oranges: Pectin from banana peels can stabilize and preserve orange juice naturally

Certain fruits go well together and can be combined to create a delicious fruit bowl, but researchers from the Benue State University in Nigeria had something different in mind with the combining process that they have developed. The study, which appeared in the IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT), looked at the possibility […]

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