Greetings steemians,
I welcome you all into this week writing challenge that is organized by @steemalive community and here is my first entry for the contest.

This is my first entry and in this article I will be writing on the fruits I love consuming and why. In this article too I will be writing some of the health benefits and the local name of the fruits.

Coconut

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Coconut is one of the fruit I love most. I don't know why I love this fruit is just that I enjoys the fruit any time I consumes it.

Coconut is a fruit that is gotten from the coconut palm. Coconut comprises of it's water,milk,oil and the tasty meat. Coconut meat contains a very high amount of Medium chain fatty acids (MCFA).

Coconuts are fruit that consist of fibre, vitamins and minerals and they are richly nutritious. Here we call it Aki oyibo and it is worth 100NGN .
I usually buy my coconut from the market or roadside.

Benefits of Coconut

Coconuts are very nutritious and beneficial to human and below are some benefits/positive effect of coconut to human health:

• Coconut helps to better humans oral health since it's meat has an MCFA that contains Antimicrobial properties.

• Coconut helps to improve the heart health

• It also aids to easy/quick digestion of food consumed by us.

Mango

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Mango is also one of the fruits that I love so much despite that it attracts flies I still love it because of it's text and nutritional value.

Mango is an edible fruit that has a stone shape and can be gotten from a tropical tree called magnifera indica and it is calledMangoro here. I usually buy my mango in the market and road side so cheap that I buy three pieces for 100NGN.

benefits of mango

Mango is a creamy and sweet fruit that many benefits to human health and below are some of the benefits:

• It helps to boost immune system

• Mango helps humans to prevent diabetes

• Mango is a supporter of eye health

Apple

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Apple is also one of the fruits are love and enjoys to eat because of it's unique taste and nutritional value. It is said to be one of the most nutritious fruit.

Apple is also an edible fruit that can be gotten from apple tree. Apple is a fruit that natural has sugar in it which makes it sweeter than all. Apple contains high level of water,fibre, fructose etc and also has different macro nutrients in it like potassium, nitrogen etc that are beneficial to human health

I usually buy my apples in market and roadside and they are very cheap and affordable, here they cost two for just 100NGN and it's name here is Achicha

Benefits of Apple

Apple has different positive effects to human health and below are some of the benefits:

• Eating apples helps human to lower there risk to cancer

• Eating apples helps human to lower there risk to diabetes and some chronic diseases

• Eating apples helps to improve the brain health

• Eating apples helps to lower the amount of cholesterol in human body

Conclusion

Fruits are very important and beneficial to human health therefore it is very necessary for humans to consume different kinds of fruits daily because they have there different functions/benefits to human health. Never neglect fruits because they give so many nutrients that the body wants to function properly.
Thanks 😊

Written by;
@emmanu♥️