How to eat grapefruit. Correct attitude to citrus fruit

Grapefruit won its popularity not only due to unusual taste, but also to a greater extent, thanks to myths about its properties and origin. For 100 years around this citrus rumors and rumors, even the question of how to eat grapefruit properly, is constantly entering the discussions that occur in culinary circles. Someone says that he is a hybrid of orange and pomelo, and someone claims that grapefruit is the result of selection, however, so far no one has been able to produce this fruit in an artificial way. He is simultaneously credited with healing properties and is immediately called dangerous to health. But it should be said that none of these assumptions found 100% of the evidence.

Like all other citrus fruits, grapefruit is rich in vitamins P, C, B1, D. It also contains mineral salts.

How is grapefruit so that all the useful vitamins remain in it? Of course, in its raw form, but correctly. It will be useful during recovery from a serious illness, after mental fatigue or physical stress. Fresh from grapefruit normalizes the digestive system. But do not get carried away by it. There are even grapefruit diets, which are unequivocally recognized as not safe. A large amount of juice is unfavorable for the esophagus mucosa, for the oral cavity. All because grapefruit has a very high acidity. How to eat grapefruit to lose weight? By itself, it does not promote weight loss, it only helps digestion. Without physical exertion and without a general reduction in the caloric content of foods eaten, grapefruit is unlikely to help lose weight.

Important and relevant question, how to eat grapefruit correctly? The usual rules of eating citrus here do not work. So, here's the order:

• First of all, the fruit should be washed with soda, preferably in warm water. Wash before the appearance of citrus fragrance from the skin.
• Then it must be wiped dry.
• Now you need to cut the skin - carefully from the top horizontally cut so as not to touch the flesh.
• Inside in the middle you will see a "column" - it needs to be taken out or cut.
• Slightly press down the pulp to create a juice.
• In the resulting deepening, fill in sugar, about 2-4 teaspoons. Now pushing the pulp, pour the juice into a separate bowl. And so until the fruit becomes dry.
• A mixture of juice and pulp should be poured over glasses.
• In each glass add sugar, otherwise the juice will be too bitter and sour.

Many people want to know how to eat whole grapefruit without squeezing the juice. Very simply - cut it in half and eat with a spoon. The fact is that all the bitterness of grapefruit is contained in the partitions between the lobules, so you carefully eat the spoon with the spoon, without touching these bitter septums.

No less relevant is the question, when is it better to eat grapefruit - before meals or after? If you eat it before eating, it excites the appetite excellently, and after that it helps digestion. So, when it is better to eat grapefruit, it's up to you, there are no strict rules for its reception.

Like many other products, grapefruit has a number of side effects and contraindications that you should know:

• Like all citrus, grapefruit is a strong allergen, so it should be very carefully introduced into the children's diet.
• Grapefruit is incompatible with taking certain medicines. So, for example, if you take drugs to lower blood pressure, there is this citrus you can not, since it can cause an increase in the effect of the drug.
• You can not use grapefruit in case of peptic ulcer, with gastritis, colitis, cholecystitis, nephritis, hepatitis. Also it is necessary to limit its use, if you are tormented by heartburn.

As you can see, there are a lot of rules as there is a grapefruit and it's worth listening to them. Otherwise, you risk getting pains in the stomach, low blood pressure and increased acidity.