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Tuesday 20 March 2018
Fruit Loose & Veggie Boost

ORANJESTAD - Fresh fruits immature, soft and juicy skins. Inside the skin is the
make a tropical holiday’s when ripe. It’s technically tart, tangy, or sweet pulp
picture complete. Whether a berry, but contains a skin of the fruit covering a large
you see the mango’s hang- similar to that of a kiwi. It’s seed. The pulp is usually
ing on the trees or the fresh grainy and sweet, with a cream or orange colored.
fruit cocktail on the side light, musky flavor. The sap Kenepa strengthens the
table of your pool bed, the or gum from the tree is also immune system, and pre-
link is made: you are in the a source of ‘chicle’ the vents the reproduction of
tropics. Aruba grows her original ingredient used to bacteria and viruses in the
own fruits and veggies and make chewing gum. Rich in body. This fruit is highly rec-
there are some pretty out- tannins, antioxidants shown ommended to treat lung
of-space local species you to contain anti-inflamma- infections and urinary tract
may never had heard of, tory compounds, and vita- infections. It also helps to
but really healthy and deli- min C, essential for healthy cure insomnia and rejuve-
cious. immune function. Season: nates the nervous system.
year- round. Season: the fruit typically
Mispel ripen during the summer.
This is a fruit with a charac- Kenepa
ter (5-10 cm/2-4 inches). Ovoid green fruit that Druif
It does not ripe until it is grows in bunches on trees There is no chance you
picked or falls off the tree. up to 30m high. The fruit is did not bump into one of
Mispel is hard with a sand- related to the lychee and the sea grape trees while
paper like texture when have tight, thin but rigid spending your vacation on

Aruba. The sea grape plant fruit has super power: a true
is often used in ocean-side vitamin bomb. Adults only
landscaping in sandy soil need to eat 3-4 of these
right on the beach and it berries to meet their daily
produces clusters of fruit recommended amount of
that resemble grapes. Are Vitamin C. Season: Rainy
sea grapes edible? Yes, months (Oct-Jan).
they are. Animals enjoy sea
grapes and humans can Tamarind
eat them as well, and they A delicious, sweet fruit that
are used to make jam. They has a wide variety of uses
contain very low calories and applications, both for
and sugar, enabling good medicinal and culinary pur-
bacterium to digest food poses. It is a medium-sized
and excrete waste quickly bushy tree with evergreen
which is effective in pre- leaves and fruit that devel-
venting constipation. Sea- ops in pods characterized
son: Sep-Oct. by long, brown shells. In-
side is a sticky, fleshy, juicy
Shimaruku pulp, which is the Tamarind
Maybe Aruba’s most popu- fruit. Both sweet and sour
lar wild fruit tree. You may in taste, the fruit contains a
have noticed cars at the significant level of vitamin
side of the road and peo- C, as well as vitamin E, B vi-
ple picking those red ber- tamins, calcium, iron, phos-
ries. Well, that’s Shimaruku. phorous, potassium, man-
The local habit to stop for ganese, and dietary fiber.
these delicious fruits goes There are also a number of
from generation to gen- organic compounds that
eration. Its fruit’s degree make tamarind a power-
of sour depends on the ful antioxidant and anti-in-
amount of rain it gets. Red flammatory agent. Season:
Shimarukus tend to taste March.
better than orange. The
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