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Keep Avocados for Longer


Avocado Saver by Evriholder Products

If you love guacomle and avocados then this product could be right up your street.

The Avo Saver Avocado Preserver is a fantastic way to keep cut avocados fresh. It’s designed to reduce air getting to a cut avocado therefore extending its freshness.

To use it simply place a cut avocado with the pit face down onto the base of the Avo Saver, then secure it using the adjustable strap. A very simple and quick way to preserve an avocado, and save money!

Available from Amazon.

Filed Under: Gadgets

How to choose a fresh pineapple?

Pineapples are delicious, as long as they are fresh. But how can you tell if a pineapple is fresh? How do you know you are going to get the best from it and it’s not going to end up in the bin?

Here are are a few things you can do when choosing a pineapple to tell how fresh it is:

Sight

First of all, have a good look at the pineapple, it should be brightly coloured and have deep green leaves. If it the body of the pineapple looks dull, and the leaves are brown, it’s past its best so look for another.

It’s worth noting that pineapples do not continue to ripen after they are harvested, and once opened only last up to a couple of days in normal conditions.

Feel

Fresh pineapples are weighty because they’re full of juice. If you find one that isn’t, move onto another. If it is heavy, gently squeeze it. What you are looking for is a fruit that is firm, but with a little play when poked. There should be no soft bits or indents on the outside.

Smell

Our nose tells us a lot about the quality of food (and the world around us). A fresh/ripe pineapple gives off that wonderfully sweet pineappley smell.

If you can tick all these boxes then your pineapple is pretty fresh and good to go.

Filed Under: Food and Drink

High vitamin C intake may cut diabetes risk

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An abundance of vitamin C in the diet may help lower a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

In a study of middle-aged and older men and women, those with the highest blood levels of vitamin C were significantly less likely to develop diabetes over 12 years than those with the lowest levels, researchers found.

Fruits and vegetables are the main source of vitamin C in Western diets, and blood levels of vitamin C are good markers of fruit and vegetable intake, Dr. Nita G. Forouhi, at the Institute of Metabolic Science at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England, and colleagues note.

The current findings “re-endorse the public health message of the beneficial effect of increasing total fruit and vegetable intake,” the investigators wrote in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Read the rest of the article from Reuters.com.

Filed Under: Health