Rambutan - Benefits and Nutritional Info

Rambutan from my backyard

Rambutan is a local food found in typical Asia country such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. It's hairy appearance of either yellow or red color while the inner are white juicy fruits.

Before this, I thought that rambutan is one type of heaty food but in actual facts, it contains a lot of nutritional that our body needs. Rambutan is rich with:

- vitamin C - antioxidant that protects cells from radical and helps the absorption of iron
- vitamin A
- potassium
- zinc
- manganese
- magnesium
- calcium
- iron
- protein
- ash
- copper

Vitamin C helps in building up tissues, strengthening our immune system and decrease LDL cholesterol. It also protects from heart diseases and prevents us from fatigue, weakness, aches, rash and gum problems.

This juicy fruits contains a lot of fiber that is useful to eliminate waste, preventing us from diverticulitis, gallstones, hemorrhoids and colon cancer.

One major nutrition needed for structure of teeth and bones are calcium.

Well, I guess it is good to have some rambutan in our diets to help increasing our immunity and for good health. Since it is the season now, let's have rambutan for our health.

Durian Durian - The Benefit of It

As we all know already, it is durian season now. We can see durians sold at almost everywhere; be it outside the supermarket, 'pasar malam' and it at the roadside. Durian is also known as the king of fruits.

Durian is an extremely heaty fruits. Once you had some, it is better to drink plenty of water so that we won't fall sick after over-consuming of this fruits. Some believe that drink salt water after taking durian can help in cooling down our body.


Before this, what I know about durian is that it is very high in carbohydrates and extremely heaty. Other than that, I know nothing about durian. So, I do some google search about durian and found the nutrition facts of durian.

Taken from nutritiondata

Durian contains not only carbohydrates but protein and fats. So for those that is thinking of losing weight and trying to reduce the fat level, try not to eat too much durian.
Like any other types of fruits, durian too have some benefits:

Papaya - The Source of Anti Oxidants

I'm not sure whether I've posted anything about papaya or not, but anyway, there's no harm in posting again. Recently, my papaya tree had collapse due to the strong wind. Luckily, the root is still attach and I believe the fruits would be able to ripe, not just rotten and spoilt.
Some of the benefits of papaya:

(1) Eating papaya gives us a lot of benefit. It is believe to help in preventing cancer. Papaya is rice with antioxidant that helps the body to fight against cancer-causing cells. Sources of antioxidants are vitamin C, E and beta-carotenes.

(2) For those with digestive disorders, papaya is one of the best solution. It contains the proteolytic enzymes (one of the leading proteolytic enzymes that are found in papaya are papain). Papain breaks down proteins in food, thus allowing better digestion. Eating papaya regularly treats digestion disorders such as bloating and chronic indigestion.

(3) For male, papaya helps in boost male virility. Arginine, which is found in papaya is known to boost blood flow around the penis. These enzymes boost nitric acid in the body to relax the muscles around the blood vessels and increases blood flow. Specific use of arginine is to treat erectile dysfunction.

(4) For girls, we are very concern with the premature aging sign. Papaya are proven to be able to control premature aging. When our body digest the food properly and absorbs all the nutrients it needs, our body remain vital for a long time, indirectly controlling the premature aging.

(5) For those who concern with heart attacks and strokes, you can include papaya in your daily diet plan. The antioxidants in papaya prevents cholesterol from oxidizing. A plaque is form when cholesterol becomes oxidized, which causes heart attack or stroke.

Hope all this tips would benefits my readers. It is good to plant 2~3 trees of papaya in our yard. Papaya is easily planted and the tree can serve as a shed to our homes too.

Benefits of Banana

Many do not know that banana has a lot of nutrient that can help to prevent us from disease. Fully ripe banana produces a substance called TNF which are able to combat abnormal cells. This TNF has anti-cancer properties. The degree of anti-cancer effect corresponds to the degree of ripeness of the fruits. As the banana ripes, it will develops dark spots or patches. The darker the patches is, the higher the immunity quality will be. This also means the darker the patches is, the higher anti-cancer properties would be.

Banana can also increased our white blood cells, thus enhancing the immunity of the body.

Normal recommendation would be to eat 1 to 2 banana a day to increase body immunity to diseases. A research shows that skin bananas with dark spot are 8 times more effective in enhancing the property of white blood cells than the green skin version!

Another point for banana skin would be its effect to our teeth. If we rub the banana skin to our teeth, it can whiten our teeth. I read about this a while ago when I research on the benefits of banana.

Normal benefits that we all know is that banana helps to prevent constipation. So, whoever that had difficulties in doing the 'big business', you can try to eat more bananas...

Benefits of Fruitsss

Got this information from one of my mails. Well, it's a good start to track what we consume, even food....

Carrot + Ginger + Apple = Boost and cleanse our system

Apple + Cucumber + Celery = Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and eliminate stomach upset and headache

Tomato + Carrot + Apple = Improve skin complexion and eliminate bad breath

Bitter gou rd + Apple + Milk = Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber = Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber = Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon = To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney

Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi = To improve skin complexion

Pear + Banana = Regulates sugar content

Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango = Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk = Rich in vitamin C & Vitamin B2 that increase cell activity and str engthen body immunity

Papaya + Pineapple + Milk = Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism

Banana + Pineapple + Milk = Rich in vitamin with nutritious and prevent constipation

Fruits of a Dragon ??

This is not a cactus. It's a tree of the fruits of dragon.
Hahaha .. No lah ... I took this photo from my house. The thing that is inside the plastic bags are dragon fruits. We call it local dragon fruits. The other day, I went to supermarket. They sell it for almost Rm10 per KG. I am so grateful that I have this FREE. At least I save some money in my diet program.

Hehehehe ... However, I am a bit bored eating dragon fruits.. I wonder how does this fruits gets its name. Hehehe..

OK. I have done some research on dragon fruits and think of share it with all of you.

About the Fruits

This fruits are known to be able to reduce cholesterol, helps in digestive system and also prevent cancer. It also have a name as "health fruits". Some more, this fruits have high nutritional such as vitamin C, calcium, potassium and fiber. In addition, it helps in digestion too...

The Plant

Another snap shot of the tree, with 3 fruits wrap in plastic bags...

The plant are 3 sided, resembling cactus, winged with a fragmented vinystem. The plants climbs up to anything that could support them. For those who wanted to plant them, this tree lives very well in soils with pH of 6.3 to 6.8 that full with organic.

An Apple A Day

On the 28-Jul-07, I went to OCBC Bank for Aerobic , organize by the OCBC Bank group. I didn't manage to take any snap shot of the things happening that day .. But, I have this.. Before, during and after the aerobiks, my eye keep on concentrating on a basket of apples. Hahaha .. They look so so nice and delicious!

Apple is a good choice in a dieters plan. One small apple contains roughly 64 cals while a big one contains less than 150 cals. An apple for a day is good. So, keep a good habits of eating apples!