Fruits are the diet food

September 4, 2007 on 12:09 pm | In Educational

The term fruit has different meanings depending on
context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary together with seeds of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plums, apples and oranges. However, a great
many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from. No single terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits. The cuisine terminology for fruits is inexact and will remain so.

In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. Although humans are omnivores, each culture holds some food preferences and some food taboos. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Proper nutrition requires the proper ingestion and equally important, the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and fuel in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in health and mortality, and can also define cultures and play a role in religion.

Some products prevent you not only from putting on weight, but burn fat. For example a well-known fruit – grapefruit, it lowers insulin levels and at this time you haven’t any wish to eat something. If you eat a half of grapefruit or drink 150gr. grapefruit juice with every food intake, you will reduce
on the average 2 kg. in two weeks. Besides, you can also mix up grapefruit juice with orange or lemon juice. These all will strengthen your immunity and open bowels.

Today a lot of people became to stick to the fruit diet. Such kind of activity is very popular and called fruitarianism. It’s the pursuit of a strict form of vegan diet that is limited to eating the ripe fruits of plants and trees. Fruitarians (frugivores or fructarians) eat in principle only the fruit of plants. As with other dietary practices, such as vegetarianism and raw foodism, some people consider themselves fruitarians even if
their diet
food is not 100% fruit. The reasons for this may be either they simply do not manage to reach this percentage, or that they still are on their way to reach it gradually, or they think or feel that a lower percentage (for instance 75%) is good enough for them. As long as the percentage is higher than 50%, they are (predominantly) fruitarian. Usually fruitarians who include foods other than fruit follow a vegan diet.

When discussing food, the term “fruit” usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy (including plums, apples, and oranges). Botanically, though, some foods commonly called “vegetables (including the bell pepper,
tomato, and cucumber), as well as nuts and grains, are fruits.