Health Benefits of Guyabano Fruit The guyabano is a white-fleshed fruit with a spiky skin, native to many tropical countries such as Malaysia, Mexico, Venezuela, and our very own Philippines. Also known as the pawpaw fruit in Brazil, or the soursop fruit in other countries, it’s recently experiencing a Renaissance of sorts in the healthy…
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Top 10 Health Benefits of Garlic
Top Benefits of Eating Garlic Garlic is quite a very important spice in every culinary culture. Its unique taste amps up any dish especially those which need sautéing. There wouldn’t be any chili-garlic paste, or butter-garlic toasts, or garlic tarts without this pungent smelling spice. Dishes would never be the same without it. But of…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Watermelon
The Top 10 Health Benefits of Watermelon Summer vacations would never be complete without a sip of a thirst quenching watermelon fruit shake. But did you know what a sip of watermelon has in store for you? Watermelon is a vinous plant that bears large obloid or spheroid fruits with red flesh and hefty number…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Papaya
The Top 10 Health Benefits of eating Papaya Orange, yummy and juicy fleshy fruit that is available all year round- this is your typical picture of papaya, papaw or papaw or fruit of the angels [as some refer to it]. It’s sweet and distinct flavor makes it a great ingredient for smoothies, or salsa. People…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Okra
Top Benefits of Eating Okra or Gumbo Pods Lady’s Fingers, Gumbo Pods, Bamia, Ochro, Bhindi, or Okra- whichever you call this vegetable, you should know more why it’s worth chewing this slimy veggie. It’s quite common in Asian countries as well as in Africa and Southern America. It’s either served fried, grilled and boiled. It’s…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Broccoli
Top Benefits of Eating Broccoli Fancy a bowl of sautéed broccoli? How about steamed? Boiled perhaps? Whatever sort of way you want it served, be sure to have a healthy proportion of this veggie every day to invest on your health and well being. Did you know what you could get out of munching this…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Ampalaya or Bitter Gourd
Top Health Benefits of Eating Ampalaya Ampalaya or Bitter Gourd is one of the most famous wonder vegetables. It has been extracted, packed in dietary pills, and powdered because of the several health benefits that it offers. But who needs it ingested synthetically when you can actually get the benefits directly by eating it as…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Banana
Bananas are elongated crescent-shaped edible fruit with a soft flesh from blossomy plants of the Musa breed. There are lots of banana varieties and the two specific kinds is the “Musa Paradisiacal” known as the banana plantain and the “Musa nana or Musa sapienta” known as the sweet banana, which is covered with a peel…
Top 10 Health Benefits of Ginger
Ginger, with its strong and spicy aroma, has its own place in Filipino cuisine. It may be used fresh or dried, powdered or pickled or in the form of juice or oil. Ginger tea, the classic Filipino household favorite also known as ‘Salabat‘, is the most commonly used form given every time someone catches a…