Lychee

Lychee (Litchi chinensis) is a wonderful sweet fruit. The delicious plus sweet taste is suitable to make juice, ice cream and desserts. The fruit was originated from South China but today, it can be found in most countries but the price is quite expensive. Nowadays, there are many lychee products that had formed into cordial. It is too much sugar and causes lychee to less nutritious. It is better to get lychee fruit and make your own juice.

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Coconut

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.

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Prevent Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is an abnormal growth of cells in colon and rectum. It can start either in the inner lining of colon or rectum and grows toward center. In 2002, colorectal cancer was the third most frequently reported cancer in West Malaysia. In 2006, it was reported that male (56.5%) was higher with colorectal cancer compared to female (43.5%). In addition, Chinese had the highest reported to suffer with colorectal cancer. Most colorectal cancer begins in polyps and they can grow to form cancer. Thus, it is important to get early detection and remove the polyps.

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Mangosteen

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.

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Vegetables Prevent Cancers

Numerous previous studies revealed the benefits link between eating vegetables and protection against cancers. Eat vegetables is one of the recommendations for a healthy diet and reduce the risk of many diseases. Phytochemical can be found in most vegetables and it can act as anticancer.

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Roles of Vitamin C

Vitamin C has many other names including L-Ascorbic acid, L-xyloascorbic acid, 3-oxo-L-gulofuranolactone, L-3-ketothreohexuronic acid lactone, antisorbutic vitamin, ascorbic acid and ascorbate. It is a water soluble vitamin which synthesized from glucose by many animals. In some mammals, it is synthesized in liver while birds and reptiles, it is synthesized in kidney. However, human and several species are unable to synthesize vitamin C. Insufficient vitamin C in diet can cause scurvy and lack of enzymatic functions.

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Oregano in Food

Oregano is a superb herb with many health benefits and a very flavorful herb that is used in culinary especially in Italian cooking. The scientific name of oregano is Origanum vulgare. It is also known as Suganda (Tagalong), Torongli de Limon (Spanish) and Zuo shou xiang (Chinese). Traditionally, oregano is used as herbal remedy for skin burns, cuts and bruises. The minty flavor from oregano is used for treating sore throat, asthma, colds, flu and cough.

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Great Benefits of Strawberry

In Malaysia, Cameron Highland is a center of strawberry production. It is commercially and widely consumed fresh or in processed forms such as juices, ice creams, jellies and jams. According to NutriWeb Malaysia, it is estimated that 5 whole strawberries with average size have 11kcal. It is not a good main source of energy, but it contains 44g of water which is considered high.

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Food For Stomach Cancer

Stomach cancer is the eighth out of ten most frequent cancer in Peninsular Malaysia 2006 (Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2006). But, it is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world, accounting for more than 700,000 deaths each year (Stump S. E., 2012). Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth that starts in the stomach.

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