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Custard Apple
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| Fruit Description |
Custard Apple
The Custard Apple (Cherimoya) comes from the "Annona" family of fruits. It has a very sweet and pleasant flavor and can be round, heart-shaped or irregular. Once you break open this skin, you’ll find thick, creamy flesh surrounding the seeds. Sugary and granular, it’s this custard like texture that gives the fruit its name.
The custard apple has calories equivalent to that of mangoes. 100 g of fresh fruit pulp provide about 75 calories. It is however, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol; but rich in dietary fiber (3 g per 100 g) that helps prevent absorption of cholesterol in the gut. The dietary fibers also help protect the mucous membrane of the colon from exposure to toxic substances by binding cancer causing chemicals in the colon.
Like all annonas, the custard apple contains an impressive list of essential nutrients, vitamins, anti-oxidants and minerals. It is also good for people suffering from anaemia, as it this fruit is high in calorie. And if you want to put on some weight, include this in your daily diet chart. Custard apple contains natural sugar, and hence make great nutritious snacks and even desserts.
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Vitamin & Mineral Medicine |
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"The tamarind fruit pulp has been official in the British and American pharmacopoeias and most other international pharmacopoeias for its medicinal properties.
Some 200,000 lbs (90,000 kg) of the shelled fruits have been annually imported into the United States for the medicinal drug trade."
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| Nutritional Information |
Health Benefits - Custard Apple
Custard Apple (Cherimoya) is rich in potassium, iron and niacin and also a good source of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a powerful natural antioxidant. Consumption of fruits rich in vitamin C helps body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals from the body.
Anti-Cancer - Anti-Malaria - Powerful Cytotoxins - Custard Apple
Custard apple (Cherimoya) contain several poly-phenolic antioxidants. Among them, the most prominent in annona family fruits are Annonaceous acetogenins. Acetogenin compounds such as asimicin, bullatacinare...etc are powerful cytotoxins and have been found to have anti-cancer, anti-malarial, and anti-helminthes properties.
Even the bark of the custard apple tree, which contains astringents and tannins, is used in making herbal medicines. The leaves of the tree are supposed to be good for treating cancer and tumors; while the bark can relieve toothaches and gum pain.
Bone Health - Arthritis - Rheumatism - Magnesium - Custard Apple
Custard Apples are high in magnesium, they equalise the water balance in our body, which helps in removing acids from the joints and reduces the symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis. If you feel tired and weak more often than usual, then have this fruit in your daily diet, as the potassium present in it will help to fight muscle weakness.
Digestive Health - Copper - Fibre - Custard Apple
The custard apple is useful in treating many digestive conditions and is known to cure indigestion problems. It's important to include this fruit in your diet, as the high fibre and copper content helps to cure constipation, and helps to treat diarrhoea and dysentery.
Eye Health - Skin Health - Vitamin A - Custard Apple
Custard apples contain Vitamin A, which keeps your eyes, skin and hair healthy.
Heart Health - Blood Pressure - Potassium - Custard Apple
Custard Apple (Cherimoya) is high in potassium and magnesium and has a well-balanced sodium-potassium ration which all helps in protecting the heart from cardiac disease. A good potassium level in the body helps control heart rate and blood pressure; thus counters the bad influences of so dium. It also contain more minerals weight per weight than many common fruits like apples, rich in copper, magnesium, iron and manganese.
Skin Health - Abcesses - Boils - Ulcers - Custard Apple
It is believed that a paste made with the creamy flesh of the custard apple fruit can be used as a balm to treat boils, abscesses and ulcers.
Tension - Irritability - Headaches - B Vitamins - Custard Apple
Custard Apple (Cherimoya) is a good source of B-complex vitamins, especially vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine). 100 g fresh fruit provides 0.257 mg or 20% of daily-recommended levels. Pyridoxine help keep up GABA neuro chemical in the brain. High GABA levels calms down nervous irritability, tension, and headache ailments.
Source: http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/cherimoya.html
Source: http://www.diethealthclub.com/health-food/custard-apple-health-benefits.html
Learn more: http://nutrionomics.com/
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Anti-Oxidants - Super Foods - Research
Two important messages are emerging from anti-oxidant research:
1. First, that the health benefits of these phytochemicals are derived from whole foods ... and not from supplements.
2. Second, that "the synergistic effect is powerful" - in other words, antioxidant activity isn't the function of a single vitamin or nutrient alone,
... "it is the combination of countless compounds in a fruit working together."
Source: www.eatingwell.com - Alison Cleary
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| "Let food be thy medicine ... and medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates |
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"The tamarind fruit pulp has been official in the British and American pharmacopoeias and most other international pharmacopoeias for its medicinal properties.
Some 200,000 lbs (90,000 kg) of the shelled fruits have been annually imported into the United States for the medicinal drug trade."
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"The Bait and Switch" ... How Big Pharma Repackages Vitamins as Expensive Drugs !!!
The latest prescription medicine called Niaspan, which targeted to men and women with coronary artery disease and high cholesterol:
“...works to raise HDL (good) cholesterol levels in people with abnormal cholesterol levels ... also works to lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides.”
Plus, Niaspan can "reduce the risk of another heart attack in people who have high cholesterol and a history of heart attacks."
Now, here's the thing about Niaspan... it isn't really a drug! ... it's nothing more than time-released niacin (vitamin B3)!
You can get a month's supply (without a doctor's order) from most vitamin shops for under $7. Without a doubt, you're much better off going that route... because Abbott Labs will charge you a heck of a lot more ... this profitable hoax, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for the drug giant Abbott Labs!
Source: Dr. Allan Spreen - Nationally acclaimed as America’s “Nutrition Physician” - www.healthiertalk.com
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"The Bait and Switch" ... How Big Pharma Repackages Fish Oil as Expensive Drugs !!!
You've probably heard of a prescription drug called Lovaza, right? I chuckled when I first heard about it, because it's nothing more than refined fish oil.
But it sounds snazzy and you need a doctor's prescription for it ... so it must work better than regular fish oil, right?
Wrong. It doesn't. It contains the same active ingredients you find in fish oil: EPA and DHA.
But Big Pharma managed to fool many, many Americans with this hoax.
In fact, this kind of con is hugely profitable for Big Pharma ... earning billions of dollars for the drug giant Abbott Labs.
For this reason alone, we will see more and more vitamins magically "repackaged" and sold as drugs.
Source: Dr. Allan Spreen - Nationally acclaimed as America’s “Nutrition Physician” - www.healthiertalk.com
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Read more International Scientific Studies and Nutritional Medical Research at "Nutrionomics ... the Science of Nutrition" (www.nutrionomics.com)
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| Custard Apple - Food Uses |
Custard Apple - Food Uses |
Custard Apple - Food Uses |
| Consumer Information |
Taste - Custard Apple
Custard apple is sweet, delicious, pulpy, and fragrant rich. The taste has been described as a combination of banana, pineapple and strawberry. It has a white, juicy and fleshy centre, with a soft custard-like texture.
The large seeds and skin should not be eaten.
Food Uses - Custard Apple
Custard apples, with its high calories, natural sugars and sweet delicious taste, are good as a dessert and as a nutritious snack. Custard apples can be made into shakes or smoothies, or even into natural ice creams. It is good for those who have hyper thyroidism or want to gain weight – a mixture of honey and custard apple is supposed to help people add on those much-needed calories.
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| Food Gallery - Custard Apple |
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Custard Apple - "Snow Egg" |
Custard Apple - Ice Cream |
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Custard Apple - Cupcake |
Custard Apple - Yogurt |
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| Custard Apple - Ice Cream |
Custard Apple - Ice Cream |
Custard Apple - Fresh |
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| Custard Apple - Milkshake |
Custard Apple - Milkshake |
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Custard Apple - Blossom |
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| Fruit Grower - Information |
TMF Florida Fruits
Southern Florida has long been the site of tropical and subtropical fruit production and research. Specialty tropical fruits have been part of the Florida tropical fruits research program at the TREC - Tropical Research and Educational Center - (www.trec.ifas.ufl.edu) since its establishment in 1930.
The future of tropical fruits in South Florida seems very bright, especially considering the involvement and investment of local growers in the important research efforts. The 1980's saw a major increase in the areas planted to specialty tropical fruits in southern Florida.
A wealth of International scientific and medical research (www.nutrionomics.com) supports the medical and nutritional health benefits of tropical and subtropical fruits, high in bio-natural vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other vital nutrients. Exemplary marketing campaigns supported by proven scientific research have accompanied increases in fruit production and should serve as a model for other industries and societies.
For the consumers... the immediate goal of TMF Florida is to promote the campaign for healthy living and support the finally emerging "Green Wave" in Nutrition, to help the end consumer to better understand the cardinal importance of their daily nutritional decisions, and to experience the significance of optimal bio-natural nutrition upon their health and lifestyle.
For the Florida fruit grower... TMF Florida represents the show window for their wonderful fruits and the marketing strategy so deeply ignored in the past - based on all the internet possibilities available today and certainly increasing exponentially in the future.
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