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Monday 28 May 2018

Fruit Loose & Veggie Boost

Fresh fruits make a
tropical holiday’s picture Kenepa
complete. Whether you Ovoid green fruit that grows
see the mango’s hanging in bunches on trees up to
in the trees or the fresh 30m high. The fruit is related
fruit cocktail on the side to the lychee and have
table of your pool bed, tight, thin but rigid skins.
the link is there: you are in Inside the skin is the tart,
the tropics. Aruba grows tangy, or sweet pulp of the
her own fruits and veggies fruit covering a large seed.
and there are some pretty The pulp is usually cream or
out-of-space local species orange colored. Kenepa
you may never had heard strengthens the immune
of, but really healthy and system, and prevents the
delicious. reproduction of bacteria
and viruses in the body. This
Mispel fruit is highly recommended
This is a fruit with a character to treat lung infections and
(5-10 cm/2-4 inches). It does urinary tract infections. It
not ripe until it is picked or also helps to cure insomnia
falls off the tree. Mispel is and rejuvenates the
hard with a sandpaper like nervous system. Season:
texture when immature, the fruit typically ripen
soft and juicy when ripe. during the summer.
It’s technically a berry, but
contains a skin similar to Druif
that of a kiwi. It’s grainy There is no chance you
and sweet, with a light, did not bump into one of
musky flavor. The sap or the sea grape trees while
gum from the tree is also spending your vacation on
a source of ‘chicle’ the Aruba. The sea grape plant
original ingredient used to is often used in ocean-side
make chewing gum. Rich landscaping in sandy soil
in tannins, antioxidants right on the beach and it
shown to contain anti- produces clusters of fruit
inflammatory compounds, that resemble grapes. Are
and vitamin C, essential for sea grapes edible? Yes,
healthy immune function. they are. Animals enjoy sea
Season: year- round. grapes and humans can
eat them as well, and they degree of sour depends on characterized by long,
are used to make jam. They the amount of rain it gets. brown shells. Inside is a sticky,
contain very low calories Red Shimarukus tend to fleshy, juicy pulp, which
and sugar, enabling taste better than orange. is the Tamarind fruit. Both
good bacterium to digest The fruit has super power: a sweet and sour in taste, the
food and excrete waste true vitamin bomb. Adults fruit contains a significant
quickly which is effective only need to eat 3-4 of these level of vitamin C, as well
in preventing constipation. berries to meet their daily as vitamin E, B vitamins,
Season: Sep-Oct. recommended amount of calcium, iron, phosphorous,
Vitamin C. Season: Rainy potassium, manganese,
Shimaruku months (Oct-Jan). and dietary fiber. There
Maybe Aruba’s most are also a number of
popular wild fruit tree. You Tamarind organic compounds
may have noticed cars A delicious, sweet fruit that make tamarind a
at the side of the road that has a wide variety powerful antioxidant and
and people picking those of uses and applications, anti-inflammatory agent.
red berries. Well, that’s both for medicinal and Season: March.
Shimaruku. The local habit culinary purposes. It is a
to stop for these delicious medium-sized bushy tree
fruits goes from generation with evergreen leaves and
to generation. Its fruit’s fruit that develops in pods Continued on Page 15