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Fabulous Fruit Drinks
[“Allyn’s Kichen”]
Dr. Allyn Cano Alwa ‘s food experimentation history began early as she watched and assisted her Cajun grandmother prepare the daily meals from a wide array of ingredients uncommon in most households. Her parents opened and operated one of the first full service Mexican restaurants in the United States, and went on to create a well-known national chain, El Torito. Dr. Alwa apprenticed by assisting her mother research and develop recipes, menus, and artistic food presentations for El Torito.
When she married into a south Indian family, she continued her tradition of watching and assisting in the kitchen, and began to appreciate the intricacies and delicacies of southern Indian cooking.
Dr. Alwa developed a love and fascination with natural and ethnic foods – a fascination which persists to this day. She professes a common essential ingredient to all fine cuisine – love. Dr. Alwa believes the discerning factor for an exquisite dish and a superior preparer is the love and awareness put into the selection and preparation of the ingredients, as well as the emotional and healing gift it is to those for whom it was prepared.
Fabulous fruit drinks
Here is a timeless and limitless healthy option to flavored fluids. Think of natural lemonade – remove the sugar and use any ripe fruit or combination of fruits, blend to pure juice, add a good spring water, ice (optional), and YOU’VE GOT IT!
Want a soda substitute? Add mineral water in place of regular water. If it is too sour or bitter (lemon, lime, grapefruit, cranberry, tamarind, hibiscus flower “Jamaica,” etc.), use a natural sweetener such as honey, pure maple syrup, stevia or, at the very least, raw, unbleached cane sugar. And please, no chemical brain poisons like aspartame, saccharin or NutraSweet. All ripe fruits are enzymatically active – that’s what “ripe” is.
Watermelon – Rich in Vitamin A, potassium, chlorophyll (rind) and enzymes. An excellent kidney and bladder cleanser with strong diuretic effect benefits arthritis, blood, skin, weight, and prostate problems.
Other Melons – Energy boosters, good skin and nerve tonics. They are cooling with a tonifying effect on the digestive system, aid constipation, bladder and kidney problems. Rich in A, B complex, and C vitamins as well as having an abundance of minerals and enzymes.
Strawberry – High in vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium, these berries contain natural painkillers, are a good cleansing agent, beneficial to thyroid disorders, acne, constipation, fluid retention, fevers, pneumonia and gout.
Pineapple – This thirst quencher is rich in vitamin C, chlorine, potassium, and the enzyme bromelain. Soothing to sore throats, indigestion, sciatica, overly acid conditions, and pyorrhea. Regular consumption of this fruit’s juice reduces the harmful effects of excessive smoking.
Orange – Most commercial orange juice is pasteurized which destroys all the natural enzymes. Orange has a cleansing and tonifying effect on the gastrointestinal tract. It improves and strengthens the walls of the vascular system. Both heart and lungs benefit from regular consumption and it is useful for anemia, blood conditions, hypertension, skin, gout, fever, and inflammations. It is rich in vitamins A, C, amino acids, minerals, and bioflavonoids.
Grapes – These metabolic stimulators provide a cooling drink for summer heat and quenching thirst. During fevers, grape increases urinary output, washing out internal toxins. High in A, B-l, B-2, C, niacin, and rich in minerals, grape seed oil extract has recently been recognized for its excellent antioxidant properties.
Guava – In India, consumption of one ripe fruit per day is used to control heart palpitations due to anemia and nervousness. Guava is very rich in vitamin C; one guava is equivalent to the vitamin C of six oranges; also rich in calcium.
Raspberry – Good source of vitamins C and A, potassium, and iron. It is beneficial to any feverish or inflammatory condition and supportive to the immune system.
Published in the Health and Healing Wisdom Journal
Spring 1999 | Volume 23 Number 1
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