♥ Day 8 Blood Orange Juice ♥

Day 8 on Mono Blood Orange juice.
I must say that I find Blood Oranges to be one of the most striking of all fruits.
They are sometimes beautifully gradiated with colour; starting from orangey-yellow, through red, to purple.
Here is one I juiced (in my mouth ) today.
I felt it was just so Beautiful ♥ that I had to capture its Tequila Sunrise colours on my camera.

Such a Beautiful Fruit with such a beautiful taste. I do think that fruit lovers are blessed with the most divine looking food ♥

I have been juicing between 16–20 Oranges each day, this feels like a good amount for me at the moment.
I have had good energy, and feel very satisfied with the quality and ripeness of the lovely Bloods.



Cappi, my son, and I went out with our trolley today to find some more of these Beauties. We combined food hunting with exersise, sunshine, and homeschooling as we did mental maths and spelling on our walk; so some great mulitasking and we got to bring home some delicious fruit.

I feel very blessed and happy today ♥
Love and Peaches,
from Anne XX.

♥ 7 Days on Blood Orange Juice ♥

This is my seventh day on Blood Orange juice.
Blood Oranges are one of my favourites of all the fruits. There is something very special about their delicious, rich, Mulberry wine flavour, and they are not only beautiful to look at and a delight to eat, but they are full of goodness.
Bloods have up to twice the Vitamin C content of their more orangey cousins.
Their Australian season is short but deliciously sweet.
Blood Oranges can be a little hard to track down; supermarkets rarely stock them, it is usually fruit shops that are home to these litttle purple juice balls.

Blood Oranges make an excellent juice, just using a simple hand-juicer you can get so much juice out of them.

Bloods originated in Sicily, hundreds of years ago, and in 1995, I was fortunate to be in Malta in Sicilian Blood Orange season. Malta is a beautiful island and due too her proximity to Sicily there were bags of Sicilian Blood Oranges in every small grocery store.

I found out that the colour of the Blood Orange is caused by the colour pigment and antioxidant anthocyanin. Anthocyanins are also found in Mulberries and Raspberries, and that may be why, to me,  the Blood Orange has flavours of  Raspberries and Mulberries in it.

In contrast the colour pigment of the Cara Cara Navel Orange is not due to anthocyanin but to the antioxidant lycopene.

I usually eat mostly local fruit, but I make an exception for the Bloods, which come from the Southern part of Australia.
To get that really deep and tasty pigmentation, Bloods need to experience the cooler and drier nights. So whilst they will grow in Queensland, they will not develop the purply-red colour and taste.

So I give much thanks and gratitude to the trees and farmers of  Southern Australia for providing me with the truly delightful Blood Orange ♥ ♥ ♥

Love and Peaches and Beauty Days,
from Anne XX ♥

What is in a dietitian's refrigerator?

Blueberries, peaches, asparagus, onions, avocado, yogurt, fat free milk, whole milk, 100 percent OJ, whole wheat bread, yogurt squeeze tubes, coconut water, minced garlic, peanut butter, almond butter, left over tuna, salsa... those are a few of the items in my refrigerator. So many times people wonder what foods I keep in the refrigerator so I thought I would share a sampling. Lucky for me I have husband and two little guys who enjoy eating healthy too! If you are trying to improve your health, take a good luck at what foods you keep on hand and try every shopping trip to 'health it up'. What do I mean by that? Swap out a less healthful item for a better choice. Every little change helps!

Capville's List of Products

Fresh Malaysian Local Fruit Juice.

Ready to Drink Calamansi Juice (Jus Limau Kasturi), Mango Juice, PassionFruit Juice (Jus Markisa) and Pumpkin Juice (Jus Labu)

The fruits are being processed within 48 hours after harvesting to retain its natural flavour and freshness. No artificial colouring and flavouring added. Fruits are being cultivated by farmers practicing Natural Farming methods and it is free from any chemical residue from the use of chemical-based fertilizer and pesticide.

Passion Fruit Juice, Passion Fruit Juice with Stevia, Calamansi Juice and Pumpkin Juice.
Bottle Size : 250ml
250ml x 24 bottles = RM84.00 / carton
@ RM3.50 / bottle
* Passion Fruit Juice with Stevia : RM3.80 / bottle *

Mango Juice, Calamansi Juice, Passion Fruit Juice and Pumpkin Juice.

Bottle Size : 300ml

300ml x 24 bottles = RM67.20 / carton
@ RM2.80 / bottle

Passion Fruit Juice and Calamansi Juice

Bottle Size : 2L

2L x 6 bottles = RM90 / carton
@ RM15 / bottle

Passion Fruit and Calamansi Juice

Bottle Size : 5.75L

RM40.00 / bottle

Passion Fruit Jam

Bottle Size : 470g

470g x 12 bottles = RM132 / carton
@ RM11 / bottle

dunkin donuts new bagel twists...beware

New to the Dunkin' Donuts menu are innocent looking bagel twists. Why should you beware? One cheddar bagel twist has 400 calories, 9 grams fat, and 4.5 grams saturated fat. That is 80 more calories, 7.5 more grams of fat, and 3.5 more grams of saturated fat than a plain bagel. The cinnamon raisin twist is less offensive with 350 calories, 3.5 grams fat, and 0.5 grams saturated fat.

Before you drive thru DD again, check out the Dunkin' Donuts nutrition guide, click here.

Orange juice flavonoids (high in VioVI) may protect against bad effects of high fat meals

Flavonoids from orange juice may neutralise the detrimental effects of consuming a high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal, says a new study from the US.

The compounds were found to exert antioxidant activity and reduce the increase in inflammatory markers produced after consuming a fast-food-type meal, researchers from the University at Buffalo report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Researchers led by Professor Paresh Dandona linked the apparent benefits of the orange juice to the high content of the flavonoids naringenin and hesperidin.

“Our data show, for the first time to our knowledge, that drinking orange juice with a meal high in fat and carbohydrates prevented the marked increases in reactive oxygen species and other inflammatory agents,” said the first author of the study, Husam Ghanim, PhD
Click to acess scientific article

Watch for Prevention Magazine's July Issue

I weighed in this week on some new products for an article in the July issue of Prevention Magazine. Watch for it to come out!