How to pick and store the fresh fruit and vegetable? (Part 1)

The best-tasting, most nutritious produce is easy to find if you know how to look, touch, smell and shop. Bear in mind that, not all well-shaped fruit or vegetable is all good.


Look : Prime fruits and vegetables are often irregular shaped and blemished.
Touch : Heavy, sturdy fruits and vegetables with taut skin are fresh
Smell : Many fruits can be sniffed for ripeness.
Shop seasonally : For tastier and cheaper food

Grab as different colours for your fruits and vege. Different colour brings the different nutritious.

Below is some examples of how to choose a fresh fruit or vege and how to store it well: -

Broccoli

Find rigid stems with tight floret clusters that are deep green or tinged purple. Do not choose any with yellowing heads which will be more bitter.

Storage : Refrigerate in a plastic bag for up to 1 week

Asparagus

Thin spears are sweet and tender. Buy vibrant green spears with tight and purple-tinged buds.

Storage : Trim the woody ends. Stand the spears in a bit of water in a tall container; cover the tops with a plastic bag. Cook within 3 days.

Artichokes

Seek out deep-green, heavy artichokes, with tightly closed leaves that squeak when pinched together.

Storage : In the fridge for up to 5 days.

Bell peppers

These should have lots of heft for their size, and brightly coloured, wrinkle-free exteriors. The stems should be bright green.

Storage : Refrigerate in the crisper for up to 2 weeks.

Button mushrooms

Find tightly closed, firm caps that are not slimy or riddled with dark, soft spots. If you see the mushroom with open caps, advice is eat them soon.

Storage : Spread them on a flat surface, cover with a damp paper towel and refrigerate for 3 to 5 days

to be continued...

Best Juices and Detox

Citrus family plays very important roles as detox juice. These includes orange, grapefruit, and lemon. As we all aware these fruits are loaded with vitamin C and act as defender or so-called enhance the immune system. You may mix all these fruits together for excellent result.

Apples, oranges, lemon, and carrots combined are an excellent detox juice that i like most. It gives the best source of beta-carotene, Vitamin C, and a natural relief for arthritic pain. Add some celery if you like to.

Lemon, pineapple and mango are tropical fruits that are very good for digestion. Combine all these fruits to have better digestive system.

Another choice of juice, you may choose to mix white grapes, strawberries and granny smith apple for the benefits of kidney, skin and liver.

You can also mix cantaloupe, papaya, honey dew and grapes for the benefits of kidneys.

If you like banana or you want to have more potassium, you may mix strawberries, bananas and peaches. As we know, banana is very good for skin. For a little bit of soury taste, twist lemon to the juice.

Talking vege and fruit juice detox, you may consider to mix red cabbage with carrot or apple and lemon juice. It plays a role as diuretic as natural antiviral and antibacterial source.

Another vege for detoxification, you may like to try spinach. Mix spinach and carrots for antioxidants and antiaging purposes.

All detox juice are mix well with lime juice or lemon juice for best detoxification result.

From the above, we can see that the detoxification is mainly for kidney, liver and skin. If you would to have the complete recipe of the mix juice you may email me.

Let's try the juices....

Lemon as Detox Juice and Weight loss agent

Lemon taste a acidic but actually it is a powerful alkalizing agent. It assists us to restore our body to natural state. As a main detox agent, it is consider very cheap and is the strongest alkalizing foods.

Lemon detox diet is not only targeting for weight loss, but it means to cleanse your liver in order to make you feel fresh, replenished and energetic for the day and eventually flush the toxins out of your body. Our toxins are all stored in the gallbladder and the liver. In order to improve your metabolism, detoxification of liver is most important. The lemon detox diet plays a role to improve your colon function as well. This is due to the colon builds up toxins over time which can lead to overall sluggishness and poor health.

This is a fasting diet, meaning you are not suppose to eat except for a special juice that you drink to do the actual cleansing and detoxing.

The ingredients of a lemon detox drink is mixed of
· 250ml water
· Half fresh lemon
· Half pinch of cayenne pepper
· 1 tablespoon of natural maple syrup.

Drink it warm or at room temperature. You are advised to take 8-10 glasses of this detox drink everyday for 3 - 5 days. When you are on this diet, you are encouraged to have a large glass of water each day with 1 teaspoon of salt, which helps stimulate bowl movements.

After this 3-5 days lemon detox diet, you will feel healthier in general because of this thorough cleansing and detoxifying.

During the 1st trial of my diet, i have my weight loss of 3kg and subsequently 2kg each. After these diet, i feel i am healthier and my weight is easily maintained...

What is the best food during detox?

We should consider a lot of healthy and nutritious foods once we start our detoxification. These foods play very important roles to help you in the process of detoxification.

First and foremost, you must keep yourself hydrated, MOST of time, you need to drink a lot of water and juices. Bear in mind to stay away from sugary and caffeinated drinks as much as possible. All the surgary and caffeinated drinks must be replaced with herbal tea and vegetable juices or water.

Remember that everyone of us must eat FRESH fruits and vegerables no matter whether we are on detoxification diet or not. In order to achieve maximum results, take most of the vegetables especially broccoli, red and green vegetables, cauliflowers, beets, onions and garlic. Vegetable based soups and salads are light but can be filling as a meal.

Talking about protein, here the beans will play the role. It provide the major source of protein and fiber ie. Kidney beans, garbazo and soybeans.

As asian, we will always like white rice as well as pasta. During this detoxificaition process, substitute the aforementioned with brown basmati rice or other brown grains.

As usual, we shall always enjoy lighter and smaller meals. Even we know that vegetable is light but if can be cooked as soup based and take as a filling meal as well.

Apple & Blueberry juice

Ingredients
3 apples
200g bluberries
1/4 lemon



Juice all the apple and blueberries together.
Can be decorated with lemon.


This juice is very useful to avoid upset of your stomach.


Blueberries contain are lethal to the bacteria that can cause upset of stomachs.


Take this juice a detox juice as well...