Efficacy Citrus Fruit

Sweet orange fruit has long been known as a fresh-tasting and nutritious. Beside rich in vitamins and minerals, fruits also contain dietary fiber that are essential for normal body growth and development. With acids it tastes sweet, sweet citrus fruit can be consumed in various forms, both fresh and prepared fruit / juice.

With sweet orange citrus aurantium is the Latin name of a popular fruit in the community. Crop cultivation is now widespread because it is not too difficult. All it takes is soil fertility levels and adequate water content. Typically, sweet orange plants grafted or propagated by grafting, but can also through its seeds.

The content of compounds in sweet orange rich in vitamin C, potassium, and folid acid, may serve to inhibit cancer cells. Beside rich in fiber, this yellow fruit also contains hesperidin are able to decrease the risk of heart disease, preventing cholesterol, and lowers blood pressure. In a medium-size sweet orange fruit contained 16 grams of carbohydrate that contains 70 calories. Carbohydrates are important as an energy source the body, especially to the brain.

The value of fiber in a sweet citrus equivalent to 12 percent needed per day. Fiber function is obviously very important, among others, help the digestive process. The fiber in sweet oranges can help lower blood cholesterol levels and also lowers the risk of heart disease.

Other Ingredients in this fruit may affect the activity of the enzyme glutathione S-transferase (GTS), to inhibit the occurrence of cancer, in collaboration with compounds such as limonin and nomilin limonoida. GTS itself is the main enzyme detoxification system that can neutralize carcinogens.

Women are advised to consume this fruit because the content of lycopene in it can prevent breast cancer. For pregnant women, blood oranges may reduce the risk of birth defects. As for the kids, the content of flavonoids in it can become immune cells and antibodies are useful for immunity that are not easily up to the flu and colds. Therefore, take frequent drink orange juice to give your child so that the intake of vitamins present in sweet orange could be met. As information, not too often gives instant orange beverage packaging boxes or sachets because they contain dyes and preservatives, which if too often consumed in the long run will cause cancer cells. Danger, right?

Some properties of citrus fruit and other sweet of them:
1.Tissue can repair skin cells that die, so good for the skin.
2.The flesh when eaten can reduce heartburn, heal biliary disease, and hemorrhoids.
3.Contains sugar and vitamin C levels high so that it can increase the body's defenses, treating heartburn, and   heal canker sores.
4.Based on research, consuming a sweet citrus fruit each day can reduce the risk of stroke by 19%.
5.A source of pectin enzymes that function lowers LDL (bad cholesterol), reduce blood clots and reduce the risk of heart attack.
6.If the seeds of sweet oranges soaked in warm water and drink can be neutralized (poisons) that kill.
7.When placed on clothing, skin or oranges can prevent moth tunggau. The aroma can neutralize the dirty air. 8.In addition, if retained in the mouth can scent or reduce bad breath odor. When used as a mixture of foods can help the digestive process.
9.Lemon peel can be used as wound dressings. Besides the ash from his skin is a good liniment against leprosy.
10.Is a natural source of folic acid reduces the risk of pregnant women who gave birth to a baby with Down syndrome. Folic acid also helps prevent fatal diseases associated with age, such as heart disease and Alzheimer's.
11.Orange juice is useful to cure bleeding disorders due to hemorrhoids, cure fever, reducing blood acidity, facilitate the formation of urine, and regulate the discharge of bile.
12.Sweet orange juice plus a little pepper and salt is useful to treat digestive disorders. Meanwhile, the sweet orange juice plus a little salt and honey efficacious overcoming bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis (TB), and common colds.
13.Efficacious sweet orange peel skin soften and expel black spots on facial features. The trick, poached orange peel to the boil, then strain. Drinking a glass of water in warm conditions per day for 3 months.