The Essential Use of Pears

Fruit of a pear-tree is one of the most useful delicacies. Pears contain sugars (glucose, fructose, and sucrose), vitamins A, В1, В2, Е, Р, РР, C, carotene, folic acid, nitrogenous substances, pectin, and mineral salts of iron, manganese, iodine, potassium, calcium, tannins, and cellulose.

Fruits of pears contain unique essential oils, bioactive substances which are capable to raise protective forces of a body, to resist to infectious diseases, and to struggle with depression.

Pear juice is very useful as treatment of gastric diseases. Pear pulp is easier endured by an organism than apple pulp. Acid and very tart grades of pears strengthen a stomach and a liver, and stimulate appetite. Pears promote excretion of heavy metals and toxins out of body.

Broths and compotes made of dried pears are rich with tannins possessing an astrictive effect that is useful at intestinal upsets.

There are a lot of macro- and microelements in a pear: for example, iron, which is necessary for the synthesis of healthy blood cells. Therefore it is recommended to use pears at all symptoms of shortage of iron in an organism.

It is considered that pear jam and baked pear fruit deliver you from cough. Pear juice and broths of the fruit possess an antibacterial effect thanks to containing of the antibiotic arbutin. They are also used as a means for strengthening the vascular walls.

Pear pulp contains many potassium ions. Pears are very useful to heart in general and at a heart rhythm disorder in particular. By the way, the better and stronger is the pear smell, the more its profit, especially to heart.

If you want to grow thin, don't forget that pears possess very low energy value. It’s for this reason that they are recommended in various diets. Pears should be used correctly: they should not be eaten on an empty stomach or drank after. You also should not have a meat snack after them or enjoy them earlier than a half-hour after a meal. Don't forget that only ripened, fragrant, juicy fruit of gentle consistence possess medical properties.

Doctors actually recommend to people over 40 years old to eat more pears. It is very good to have "pear days" twice a week: 1,5-2 kg of green fresh fruit and nothing more. If pears are hard, it is better to cook them lightly.

How to Choose a Watermelon Right

Actually a watermelon is a wonderful berry. Yes, it is a berry! In the watermelon season eat it as much as possible. Now you will know how to choose a tasty and healthy watermelon. Here are some simple tips.

1. Never buy a watermelon before August. Even the earliest kinds naturally ripen in the end of July!

2. When you pat it with hand, a ripe watermelon produces a muffled sound.

3. Ripe watermelon crackles even during a small pressure.

4. Never buy cracked watermelon.

5. Too big watermelon in the pile is overfed; too small one is usually unripe. Choose only watermelons of medium size.

6. A large white spot on the side of watermelon is a sign of immaturity. Choose a melon with a small white spot.

7. Ripe watermelon is easily scratched with a fingernail.

8. Withered pedicle is not an indicator of ripeness!

9. On the cut fibers must be white. Fiber of yellow color is a sign of nitrates excess.

10. Nitrates in watermelon are distributed unevenly. Most of them are under the rind and stem. So it is better to give flesh from the middle to children.

11. Watermelon with a sour smell can be seriously poisoned.

12. You should not make jam from watermelon rind, as our grandmothers did. Modern technologies of growing watermelons use a lot of harmful substances, which are concentrated under the rind.