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Jul 15 2008

Bitter Lemon Schweppes

More and more people die from liver cancer or heart disease these days due to :

  • too much stress
  • obesity
  • intestine problems due to too much red meat causing colon cancer (which most likely will give a person a secondary liver cancer)
  • food filled with pesticides

We only have one earth and we only have one life, that’s why health is out most important asset.

Obese people should follow a weight loss program on the spot.

And all of us should start eating organic food. Food supplements is again an illusion when there is real organic food available.

Tonic water digestive

My lime tree is giving me "tons and tons’ of organic lime these days, so I am trying to find new recipes…

Having a good digestion in mind and on the lookout for quick dinner recipes : I thought to make myself a homemade digestive…

I took 1 lime, didn’t peel it and threw it in the smoothie blender with some water and sugar.

The result was a green drink which at best reminds me on Schweppes tonic water.

bitter lemon schweppes digestive

Homemade Bitter Lemon Schweppes Digestive
(the keyword is bitter…)

Schweppes biter lemon

Although that could sound like a compliment, the first time I drank Schweppes as a little kid, I wondered why anybody even would think about drinking some bitter drink like that.

40 years later I re-invented the same bitterness: and the longer you leave the drink un-chilled, the more bitter it becomes.

So if you are lazy and have a poor digestion system: start your mean with this tonic water digestive look alike.

If you want a drink to enjoy during your dinner, change lime into calamansi lime: it does make a huge difference when it comes to less bitterness.

If you ever wondered why they call it Schweppes Bitter Lemon and not Schweppes bitter lime… most likely lime is the most bitter compared to lemon or calamansi lime after you blend it completely.

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Dec 13 2007

Lower Cholesterol

Now what has TheSkinnyCook to do with cholesterol? According to my doctors a lot!

I am not on a real diet, obesity is not in me nor my family, hearth is ok, be it a little lazy, blood pressure is low, no hearth disease in our family and a Skinny Cook worthy: not at all fat.

Hmmmm, come to think of it: my father had a high cholesterol and was skinny like me. And even more hmmmm: what about my diet and daily nutrition?

8 years in Kuala Lumpur: the capital of Malaysia and the doctor says: your cholesterol is a little bit above way too high. Well, that’s a friendly way of breaking the news…And my healthy cholesterol is way too low…

Ok, just did my blood test after 5 years of indulging in nasi-lemak (coconut-rice) and all the delicious Malaysian street food, deep fried please, goreng pisang (fried banana) please…. Supper anyone at 22.00h? Oh yes, count TheSkinnyCook in! Teh-ping please, another teh-ping please as it is way too hot for a westerner :-) Teh ping is tea with lots of ice and lots of condensed milk. Doctors told me 5 years ago already that I had to go easy on milk… !

What do the doctors know? Well, they can read blood-results just like I do. And I want my cholesterol level to go down. So I will be posting what I am doing and see what it does to my next blood test!

All lower cholesterol ideas most welcome in a comment!

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Nov 01 2007

Orange Juice

I love to squeeze 3 oranges a day, yet I do keep having a flu once in a while, so it’s not a bullit proved secret recipe against flu…

How to buy orange and lemon?

valencia oranges

When buying citrus fruit: you go to your local fruit seller and ask if the oranges are sweet. Your orange seller will say "YES OF COURSE"… You come home, squeeze the oranges and suddenly, they are more sour than lemons… What to do? Sour oranges are ideal to add to strawberry smoothies! read more fruit smoothie recipes at : Fruit Smoothie recipes

Valencia Oranges

You can have a first indication whether or not your oranges will be sweet, when you buy Valencia Oranges: Valencia Oranges have not a lot seeds and is a variety of sweet oranges.

What are the numbers on the Valencia Oranges?

In the above pictures we see numbers on the Valencia oranges: on the left the orange got number 3108 and on the right the orange got number 4014. These are the so called PLU numbers: Price Look-Up Codes

Price Look-Up codes or Product Lookup Number, commonly called PLU codes or PLU numbers, are identification numbers. The code is a four-digit number identifying the type of produce, sometimes including the variety.

  • Organic produce is denoted by a five-digit number whose first digit is 9;
  • an 8 prefix indicates genetically modified food.

In the picture of oranges above:

  • 3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
  • 4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small

So the numbers tell us that we bought Valencia Oranges (a sweet Orange, but if picked too early, it can still be sour…), and the 3108 orange should be bigger than the 4014 orange. On the picture you see the same size or oranges, yet the 3018 had a thinner skin, so more juice than the 4014 orange.

PLU codes Oranges

3027 - ORANGE: Shamouti
3028 - ORANGE: Delta Seedless, small
3036 - ORANGE: Midknight, small
3107 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, medium
3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
3109 - ORANGE: Seville / Marmalade type
3110 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, Cara / Red
3153 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, medium
3154 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, large
3155 - ORANGE: Midknight, medium
3156 - ORANGE: Midknight, large
3309 - ORANGE: Lima
3310 - ORANGE: Pera
3370 - ORANGE: Maltaise
3371 - ORANGE: Salustiana
3372 - ORANGE: Navelate and other late Navel Oranges varieties
3373 - ORANGE: Navelina including Newhall
3374 - ORANGE: Without postharvest treatment
4012 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large
4013 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small
4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small
4381 - ORANGE: Blood
4382 - ORANGE: Juice
4383 - ORANGE: Tangelo Minneola
4384 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small1
4385 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large1
4386 - ORANGE: Temple, small
4387 - ORANGE: Temple, large
4388 - ORANGE: Valencia, large

Read more about Fresh Fruit Smooties at  : Fruit Smoothie recipes

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