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apple a day will keep the doctor away"- is
a well-known phrase. While it will certainly take
more than a daily apple to keep you healthy, it
is a step in the right direction. Apples are delicious,
easy to carry for snacking, low in calories, a
natural mouth freshener, and they are still very
inexpensive. |
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The apple is a highly nutritious
food. A fresh apple is the idle, healthy snack- juicy
and refreshing. It contains minerals
and vitamins in abundance. The food value of
the apple is mainly constituted by its contents of sugar,
which ranges from 10 to 50 per cent.
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Of
this, fruit sugar constitutes 60 per cent and
glucose 25 pet cent and cane sugar only 15 per
cent. Raw apples generally contain a small quantity
of starch, which gets wholly converted into sugar
during the process of ripening. The acid content
of the apple is also increased together with tire
sugar. The acid is constituted mostly by malic
acid, which is completely utilized by the body. |
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Apples
are a source of both soluble and
insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber such as pectin
actually helps to prevent cholesterol buildup in the
lining of blood vessel walls, thus reducing the incident
of heart disease. The insoluble fiber in apples provides
bulk in the intestinal tract, holding water to cleanse
and move food quickly through the digestive system.
Eat apples with their skin. Almost half of the vitamin
C content is just underneath the skin. Eating the skin
also increases insoluble fiber content.
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