Fruits are some of the most beautiful creations of God and given to us for food. Humans have gathered wild fruits for food since the time of Adam and Eve. Indeed, many people appreciate the beauty and taste of fruits, but without giving much thought about their goodness and nutritional value. Simple sugars like fructose and sucrose as well as some fibres are the main nutritional components of fruits. They are also the best source of natural sweeteners packed with smaller amounts of many other nutrients like Vitamins A and C, and minerals like potassium. Fruits contain a wide variety of nutrients that needed by us to support good health. The succulent and irresistible taste of wholesome fruits has surely earned them a place of honour in the diet of natural food.

1. Fruits are some of the most beautiful creations of God and given to us for food. Humans have gathered wild fruits for
food since the time of Adam and Eve. Indeed, many people appreciate the beauty and taste of fruits, but without
giving much thought about their goodness and nutritional value. Simple sugars like fructose and sucrose as well as
some fibres are the main nutritional components of fruits. They are also the best source of natural sweeteners packed
with smaller amounts of many other nutrients like Vitamins A and C, and minerals like potassium. Fruits contain a
wide variety of nutrients that needed by us to support good health. The succulent and irresistible taste of wholesome
fruits has surely earned them a place of honour in the diet of natural food.
The apple is a fruit with a cooling nature, sweet and slightly sour. Sweet, red appleshave a more neutral nature.
Apples have very little vitamin C and this is easily lost when they are stored for too long. With a low sodium but high
potassium content, apples enhance the muscle functions of the heart, thus strengthening it. Apples quench thirsts,
normalise blood pressure and cholesterol, relieve constipation when eaten with skin, it also aids digestion and
increase appetite in convalescing persons. For people with cool blood system, steam apples may help to reduce the
cooling effect.
Pineapples are a neutral to warming nature, sweet and sour. The most nourishing pineapples are the sun-ripened
ones. The fullness of the eyes and strong aroma are good indicators of ripeness. Check the fruit stalk for freshness. Do
not pick pineapples with shriveled fruit stalks. Sour or not ripened pineapples are less warming. Pineapples are good
for quenching thirst. They help keep up a healthy spleen, aid digestion and urination, reduce swelling, stop diarrhoea
and remove heat from body.
Star fruits are a cooling to warming nature, sweet and slightly astringent. Green and sour fruits are more cooling in
nature while the yellow and sweet ones are more warming. Star fruits aid in the formation of body fluids and activate
saliva production. They promote urination and reduce fevers. Star fruits also help digestion and relieve stomach
disorders, lover blood pressure, ease coughing and throat inflammation and help the detox of body
Gratin of cool fruits in the sillabub of Sambucca
Ingredients:
5 cl of Sambucca which is an Italian alcohol, that can be replaced by Grand Marnier, by Cointreau, by Amaretto, by all
alcohols which they use in pastry.
Method:
Clarify eggs, that is to say separate the white of the yellow. Add a
tablespoonful filled with caster sugar by yellow d ' Å“uf, then the
sambucca. Made heat a saucepan of scalding water and put to cook
the sillabub in the bath - marry. Meantime, whip yellow d ' Å“ufs.
Take the fruits which you chose, wash them in cold water and
prepare them. Fruits being sharpened, you can begin raising your
plate. Take a bit of sillabub, put it in the bottom of the plate, then,
you make brown your plate under the salamander, if you do not
have it at you, make brown in an electrical oven or in gas, by paying
attention, because it is very quick. Dispose your fruits on this
sillabub. Put of the gratin on fruits. Once your ended plate, you carry
it again under the salamander during 1 - 2 minutes, to brown. Once
the plate is browned well, you withdraw it. If you want to impress
your guests, made heat your alcohol, then singe your gratin of fruits.
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