“Let food be
thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates
Grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi)
The
grapefruit is the fruit of a sub-tropical evergreen tree.
The
grapefruit tree is a hybrid of the pomelo and the sweet orange. The
sweet orange is itself a more ancient hybrid.
Grapefruits come in yellow, pink and red fleshed varieties, the yellow
being the most bitter tasting and the red being the sweetest. For
juicing and generally for raw food recipes I prefer red grapefruits.
The coloured outer peel contains
oils which the body can't digest so generally the outer peel is not used in raw food recipes.
The same goes for oranges, but remember that lemons are different
and all of the lemon can be used.
For
juicing grapefruit, simply cut off the outer coloured skin with a sharp
knife, and then juice the lot including any remaining white pithy skin.
This makes
the best quality juice. See the video clip where Juice Daddy - Jay Kordich reveals what's of value in 'orange juice'
The same applies to grapefruits.
Links
Royal Horticultural Society: Grow your own
Fruit: Citrus
