Coconut is often called the “tree of life”. It
is used extensively in tropical countries such as Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka
etc. The coconut is famous with the production of coconut oil and it becomes so popular. However, the production of corn oil and soy oil
against coconut oil because coconut oil is believed to cause harmful to human
because of high saturated fat content.
Showing posts with label antimicrobial. Show all posts
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Coconut
Thursday, 23 October 2014
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Mangosteen
Sunday, 10 August 2014
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Mangosteen is a queen of fruit.
In Malaysia, mangosteen is called manggis.
The mangosteen consists of five to eight soft segmented fleshes. According
to NutriWeb Malaysia, 3 big whole of mangosteen contain 33Kcal, 83.9g of water,
0.6g of protein, 1.0g of fat and 5.4g of carbohydrate. It can be eaten like
other tropical fruit or made into juice. The juice consists of the whole fruit
of the mangosteen pureed or combination with other fruit juice such as apple,
blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, pear and strawberry.
Healthy Gut For Infants and Children
Monday, 4 August 2014
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Gut microbiota is also known as gut flora which is
microbe population living in intestine. There are more than trillions of
microorganisms with at least 1000 different species. Few gut microbiota is
common to most people and the rest is specific to individual. Diet has shown to affect the composition of gut microbiota composition. Different
people have different composition of gut microbiota due to different diet.
About Mint
Friday, 28 February 2014
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sodium,
vitamin C
Mint
can be a refreshing image comes to our mind and well known as mouth freshener.
It is a cool herb belonging to family Lamiaceae. More than 20 species of
mint including pineapple mint, ginger mint, Japanese mint, corn mint,
spearmint, peppermint and horsemint, to name a few. Mint leaves are not only
used for cooking, but it also can be used for medical purpose.
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