Fruits to the Rescue! Mission: To Get You FEELING YOUR BEST! ๐๐๐
Did you know that fruit can be the best defender of your body? Check out how this fruit platter can help save your body from intruders!
Disclaimer, I originally made this post for #fruitsandveggiesmonday not knowing that @chetanpadliya had put the #colorfulfruitplatter challenge together! When I found out about it, I had to enter this beautiful plate of colors, it was calling out to me to share my local veggies with the world of Steemit! It's my dream to create a network of plant-based, vegans on here and I love that these challenges are interacting with each other this week!
Original Post:
There is a lady who owns a fruit stand 5 minutes from my house. She gets deliveries from the local farmers every day and sells them fresh out of wooden crates on the side of the road. These are my pre-workouts- forget supplements and powders- this is nature's best!
If you know me, you know I am a HUGE fan of tasting the rainbow, I believe that there are many healing properties that come from the different colors associated with the chakra system which is a 7 point energetic system within your body correlated to the colors of the rainbow - one for each point.
Nutritional Benefits on My Plate :
'Red" Dragon fruit:
- This one is a 'red' dragon fruit even though to me it looks purpley-pink! It's texture is like a kiwi and it's little black seeds are great for digestion along with their high amounts of fiber!
- Packed full of vitamin C, antioxidants (boosting your immune system!)
- Antifungal and antibacterial properties that flush toxins away!
- Beautiful vibrant color!
Yellow Starfruit
- Lots of dietary fiber, giving your colon a good brush out!
- Vitamin C, antioxidants (fending off free radicals in the body!)
- Natural B- Complex vitamin! It's got a great makeup of B vitamins in it naturally, throw away the supplement!
- Star fruit is said to help get rid of coughs in natural medicine- give it a try!
Pink Guava
- Guavas purportedly have even more Vitamin C than oranges! Up to 4x as much actually!
- Vitamin C and antioxidants (get rid of all that nasty stuff in your body!)
- Low glycaemic
- Large amounts of dietary fiber
- Their seeds are hard inside, but you can swallow them- they're great for digestion!
- Magnesium helps relax your muscles! Perfect for after a workout as well!
Pink Shell, White Flesh, Ramutan
- Similar to lychee in texture and flavor! *Peel the skin away and eat the center, watching out for the pit!)
- High fiber content
- Antioxidants, antibacterial (alternative medicine says they can be used against parasites within the body so imagine what else they can banish!)
Yellow Finger Bananas
- Vitamin C
- Potassium
- Natural energy booster!
- Regulates blood sugars, keeping the body functioning efficiently!
Yellow Passion fruit
- Immunity booster due to the Vitamin C and antioxidants in here!
- Rich in Vitamin A which is strongly related to eye health
- Dietary fiber, helping with digestion
- Potassium
- Iron and copper which help improve circulation
Orange Papaya
- Great for skin!
- Antioxidants (can destroy harmful bacteria)
- High in carotenoids which help reduce inflammation in the body
Here's how it works:
Pretend your body is a street.
Right now, your street is probably being infiltrated by (let's call them gangs.) Big groups of members that are hanging around, wreaking havoc, breaking things and causing a mess- littering, pouring random liquids on the ground, leaving cigarette butts around.
Well, we don't want that so let's bring in the cops (antioxidants to clean up the streets and get those hooligans outta there!
Basically we are sending in a special ops mission to clear the place out!
When these high fiber, antioxidant-filled fruits go into the body, they run through and collect everything that shouldn't be there. They grab up the gangs hanging out, causing trouble, up to no good and they push them out!
Of course it takes time maybe the trouble makers will swing back around and try to start something up again or maybe some of them were hiding and came right back out after the police force finished up so this is a one of those things that needs to happen regularly.
Send in your team to clear things up constantly so your streets don't get overrun!
Got it?
When the body eliminates these toxins and shady characters you'll feel so much better! That's where I get the boost for my workout!
I hope you give some fruit warriors a try!
This was my post for #fruitsandveggiesmonday you can see the contest here initiated by the beautiful soul @lenasveganliving! It also intersected with @chetanpadliya's #colorfulfruitplatter challenge! What amazing vegan/plant based initiatives running wild around here! Thanks to both hosts for the wonderful opportunity to share!
I truly believe we can heal ourselves through food and it is my mission in life to create and inspire delicious, mouth watering creations that are beneficial and packed full of plant based goodies to fuel our bodies, minds and lives!
Just a friendly reminder to all that I am hosting a very vegan contest click here to see the post explaining how to get involved! Anyone can enter and anyone can win as long as you follow the rules! ๐
Until next time!
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I am literally drooling, all that fruit looks delish! I remember when I was a corpse muncher I wouldn't give fruit a second thought. Now it's like my, as my American brethren would say, candy.
Seriously nice staging too @heart-to-heart always a pleasure to read your posts. ๐
LMFAO OMG ... I can't even handle that... that made me laugh so loud out loud that the people next to me asked me to tell them what was so funny. Awww that was good @moonunit, you are amazing!
Not that it's funny but the fact that it's just so blunt. We have a movement over here like that... say it how it is not these disillusioned words that hide the truth.
Anyways, activism aside. Seems like you need a visit to the tropics!
LOL, glad I made you laugh. And a trip to the tropics would be fantastic. We are planning on heading off to spain later in the year to scope out some potential properties for our tapas bar!
I'm checking out that post you sent me now ;) Spain and tapas has my stomach growling!
Cool, thats the Idea! Obviously we will be doing a 100% Vegan tapas bar too, its a growing market and from what I can see it is not serviced nearly enough.
Great post. It's so cute. Gorgeous pictures.
Thank you, the fruits are such wonderful models ;)
Amazing lady. Little wonder you look so so cutisciois ๐๐
Now I know colors matter and getting those organic grown fresh fruits matters also.
Always a great post from a wonderful steemians. Now fruity...here I come
Absolutely! Getting your rainbow is super powerful for your health, I would definitely recommend it and having fresh organic produce is key =D I hope you enjoyed your fruits! <3
Sure and thanks to you. Keep it coming ๐
These fruits, omg I want them all! Can I please move in? I really need to visit you one day darling! I am missing all these delicious fruits a lot here in cold Austria!
Hahaha of course you can, anytime! I'd love to have you here =D It's just beginning to be our sunny, warm, perfect season so no better time ;)
I adore your imagination! What an endearing way of telling people they need to flush out the nasty sh....stuff from their bodies with the sweet fruit police. ;) You are making me want to go visit the international market so I can get my greedy hands on some of those tropical fruits, though I am sure they would not be as delicious as the ones you get so fresh!
Awww you're too sweet! I have too much fun ;)
That is the thing, you have access to essentially everything but it's been picked too fresh and lost a lot of nutrition by the time it gets all the way over there. Just stop stalling and come on over and visit me!
@dksart and I do really need to start looking at a big trip! He's got a friend living in Hong Kong right now who has asked us to come visit. I'd be happy to do a day or two there, and then hop over for a week in Bali! ;)
Wellll you have a friend living in Bali so, guess you get your part of the trip if he gets his ;) <3 You are more than welcome to stay here anytime I'm here (or even if I'm not!) :)
best fruit platter ive ever seen! wish i was snacking on it right now. :D
I'd be happy to share! It was a lot of fruit haha
WOW, this make me drool. Seriously i had to wipe up the keyboard. I didn't think fruit could be improved upon, but you've managed to make them shien on this gorgeous platter here!
It's making me want to visit the tropics again, although we're on vacation in south florida and picked up some sapote mamey. Do you have those is Bali? NO joke, my favorite fuirt EVER, and I've tried a lot of fruits, durian comes in a close 2nd.... Happy to see such artfully promoted fruits, great job on info condensation too!
Hahaha aww so sweet, well I like to play with my food ;)
You should come on over here! I have a spare room that's yours whenever you want to get on a plane across the world ;)
MMMMM YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE!
Ughgggghhhhh... now I am going to be unsatisfied for months to come because NO we do not have mamey here and that is one of my chief complaints. I have some seeds that I am desperately willing to grow.
I love it too (if that weren't obvious) I had a bunch of trees on my property in Belize so I am obsessed with it!
I can't take the smell of durian lol I hear it's a love or hate thing ;)
Oh, this is absolutely stunning creation!! Love every single item on the platter...and what a colourful and artfully created too :) Loooooooove it! taken
Hi @artbyjolla :) Thank you! I had a lot of fun making this for our lovely @lenasveganliving ;)
I too eat too many fruits in a week.I have never seen that fruit shown in the picture,that pink fruit. What fruit it is? Except Banana, Papaya and guava, none of those fruits are available in india.
Well there are a couple of pink fruits ;) But if you mean the one in the center, it's the dragon fruit mentioned in the text if you want to know about it. It's sweet and delicious ;)
You have a very nice fruit collection there, many of those I've never heard of. I love fruits and eat them on a regular basis and I too believe in their healing power. Your posts are always taking me to a whole new world ๐๐๐๐๐๐
Hi @erikah! I honestly forget how tropical these fruits are since they are every day to me! Which ones are foreign to you? It's so funny because I am always seeing things like strawberries and blueberries and apples on here wanting them haha we always want what we can't have BUT I am super fortunate to have such a beautiful diversity right here growing in the trees around =D Thanks for the inspiration to keep inspiring ;) XO
At least half of them. The dragon fruit, guava, ramutan. You can't get these here, or maybe canned which is full of sugar and chemicals. Nothing beats fresh fruits :) So make the most of them!
Oh my goodness, well I will stop forgetting to be thankful for my colorful spread ;) you're so right about the canned kind, best to avoid! Thanks for reminding me to cherish them <3
That was not my intention but next time when you go to the market and see a great variety of fresh fruits just think of us, who can only buy imported fruits or apples because it's still snowing here ๐๐๐๐๐ and enjoy those heavenly good fruits ๐
I promise I will <3
I promise I will <3