Fruits

In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds. Evolution has led plants to adopt certain basic mechanisms, seemingly without close regard to the tissues involved. No one terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits. Botanical terminology for fruits is inexact and will remain so. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which fruits include plum, apple and orange. However, the common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from.

A human diet 

A healthy diet should consist for a great deal of freshly squeezed fruit juices, raw fruits and vegetables. Some tips:

• A good start is to eat and drink more fresh fruits;
• it’s as simple as that. Before you know it you will feel much better;
• Don't forget to eat fruit on an empty stomach, not after other meals and;
• inform yourself about the substances that our 'modern' food contains.

Benefits of Fruits

Everyone knows, that fruits contain many vitamins, necessary to our organism. But vitamins are just a small part of useful substances in fruits. The scientists have proved, that many fruits possess very important qualities – they protect us from many different diseases.

• Fruits is one of the most important healthy and natural foods in existence. Thousands of different types of fruit are available to eat, all of the fruit has many strong health benefits. Fruit include a large number of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and plant phytochemicals that help benefit health. It has also been shown that eating the whole fruit or juice is best to gain the benefits rather than taking supplements to provide each nutrient separately.
• Fruit in the diet provide many benefits upon health. Fruit has high fibre contents that helps to control the blood glucose levels and reduces the blood cholesterol and generally reduces the risk of colon cancer and other cancers.
• A balanced diet includes at least five portions of fruits daily will provide all the vitamin C that the body should be, plus many more beneficial vitamins and minerals.
• You should eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is mostly sweetened, but fresh fruits have natural sugars. You can receive many benefit from the fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit, because the fruit juice has many fiber that you needed instead of drinking fruit.
• If you want to achieve a healthy balanced diet, variety is most important and this applies just as much to the fruit you eat. Different fruit and vegetables include different vitamins and minerals, By including more fruits in your diet you can get more benefits for your health. This includes different colours, flavours and textures.

Uses of Fruits

Bilberry fruit has been used for diarrhea, inflammation of the mouth and throat, and used to improve night vision.

Nutritive Value

Fresh fruits and fruit juices contain many vitamins and minerals, they are low in fat (except avocados) and sodium, and they provide dietary fiber. USDA nutritionists recommend 2 to 4 servings from the fruit group each day. Count as a serving an individual unit (one medium apple, pear, banana, orange), a fraction of a unit (grapefruit half, melon wedge), 1/2 cup berries, 1/2 cup chopped or cooked fruit, or 3/4 cup fruit juice. Whole, unpeeled fruit is higher in fiber than peeled fruit or fruit juice.