Prunes ( dried plum )

Sweet with a deep taste and a sticky chewy texture, prunes are not only fun to eat but they are also highly nutritious. As with other dried fruits, they are available year round. Prunes are actually the dried version of European plums and recently had its name officially changed to dried plum.
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Dried Banana

Banana is an excellent source of potassium and it has many other benefits. we had 4 posts about banana.you can read them too.

Do you eat banana?

Banana dessert : Roasted Bananas With Sugar-Walnut Glaze

Banana : Lower blood pressure

Banana Milk Shake

Dried bananas are peeled, sliced and dried ripe bananas. They are crisp, sweet, and pale white in color. sometimes dried bananas are colored, sulphured and sweetened. Make sure you read the label .But it’s very easy to prepare it at home.

Prepare medlar jam

 We had 2 posts about medlars ( Did you hear anything about medlar? & Medlar, Try it ! )

 Here you can learn how to prepare medlar jam.

Fruits that Lower Blood Pressure

Prunes : Prunes are sweet to taste, and have a sticky, chewy texture. A quarter cupful of prunes contains 316.6 mg of potassium and only 1.7 mg of sodium.Potassium is essential to maintain blood pressure and cardiac function as well as prevent atherosclerosis (clotting of blood in the blood vessels), whereas a low level of sodium can help lower high blood pressure.

  

Banana Milk Shake

We had some posts about banana 

Do you eat banana? 

Banana dessert : Roasted Bananas With Sugar-Walnut Glaze 

Banana : Lower blood pressure

Now I suggest you one drink made of milk and banana:

Banana : Lower blood pressure

Your blood pressure could be lower just by indulging more in this sweet tropical treat: bananas.

Cheap and plentiful year-round, bananas are bursting with potassium.

Health Benefits of Dates

  Dates are the fruit of the date palm. They are dark reddish brown, oval, and about 1.5 inches long. Date skin is wrinkled and coated with a sticky, waxy film.

Benefits : 

1 Wonderfully delicious, dates are one of the most popular fruits with an impressive list of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, required for normal growth, development and overall well-being.

2 Fresh date is made of soft, easily digestible flesh with simple sugars like fructose and dextrose that when eaten replenishes energy and revitalizes the body instantly; thus, for these qualities, dates are being used to breakfast during Ramadan months.

3 The fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which prevents dietary LDL cholesterol absorption in the gut. It is also a good bulk laxative. The fiber content helps to protect the colon mucous membrane by decreasing exposure time and as well as binding to cancer causing chemicals in the colon.

Banana dessert : Roasted Bananas With Sugar-Walnut Glaze

we had a post about banana ( Do you eat banana?) . But now we have a banana dessert:

Roasted Bananas With Sugar-Walnut Glaze

 Ingredients

Medlar,Try it !

 We had a post about medlar ( Did you hear anything about medlar (Mespilus germanica) )?
but now this is another post about medlars.
Medlars are a hardy fruit that look like a cross between a small apple and a rosehip. When ripe, they’re hard and green. They’re picked at this stage, but aren’t edible until they’ve become half rotten or ‘bletted’, when they turn brown and soft. Harvested medlars are stored in sawdust or bran in a cool, dark place until they’re suitably bletted and have developed an aromatic flavour.
Buyer's guide
Look out for medlars in farmers’ markets or gardens at the end of November. Choose undamaged fruit. 
Storage
Medlars can be stored in the fridge for a few days. 
Preparation
Once the medlar has been bletted it can be eaten raw, but it is an acquired taste. Mix its pulp with sugar and cream or eat plain, accompanied by port. Medlar fruit makes good fruit or jelly. Chop whole, bletted fruit and stew before straining and making in the usual way. Traditionally, medlars are also turned into a ‘curd’ style of fruit cheese, where the strained pulp is cooked like lemon curd with eggs, butter and sugar.

Do you eat banana?

Eat a banana, get happy. depression could be blamed on lack of serotonin, the "happy hormone," and that you can boost your body's serotonin levels by eating foods rich in the amino acid tryptophan like cottage cheese, turkey and bananas! I recommends eating at least four bananas a week.
About Bananas
The individual wrapping of a banana makes it an ideal mid-afternoon snack with just 105 calories per banana. Choose the banana as your go-to snack rather than relying on sugary snacks to keep you energized.
With just 3 calories coming from fat, banana nutrition facts should let you snack without guilt. Other reasons you should enjoy the health benefits of bananas without worrying about the bad stuff includes no cholesterol and almost no sodium! With about 14 grams of sugar, you should be sure not to eat too many bananas each day.

Did you hear anything about medlar (Mespilus germanica)?

 The brown pear and appleshaped fruits are subglobose or pyriform and crowned by foliaceous sepals (drupes 5). The fruit ranges in diameter from 1.5 to 3 cm and weight from very small (about 10 g) to big (more than 80 g). The plant is native in Europe and Asia. Its fruit is well known for its nutritive value especially by the people of Southeastern Europe, Turkey and Iran . The pomelike fruit originates from the inferior ovary, generally with five stony seeds. The skin color is brown, sometimes tinged reddish. The harvest of fruit bletted on the plant in late autumn or the harvest of fruits at physiological ripening and their storage in straw until over-ripening are well known traditions. The medlar is a typical climacteric fruit which has gained value in human consumption and commercial importance in recent years, attracting researches to study its chemical or nutritional compositions . Medlar fruit is widely consumed in some countries such as Turkey a unique place where the people grow the wild and alternative cultivars for the consumption of the fruits in different ways. A long list of recipes utilizing medlar fruits such as in jams and jellies are well known . The astringency of the fruit is well known and it has been reported that bletted pulp or syrup of the fruit is a popular remedy against enteritis and has many human healing properties . 

The bletted fruits have a sweet and slightly acidic flesh; jams and jellies can be obtained. In cookery, a surprisingly long list of recipes can be found. The astringency of the fruits has been well known since ancient times. The fruit of medlars are used as a nutritional material by the local customer and are consumed by the local people as marmalade. The medlar fruit is also used as treatment of constipation, diuretic, and to rid the kidney and bladder of stones . The fruit is consumed as a medicinal remedy in Turkey. In 1964, two new antibiotic cyclopentoid monoterpenes were isolated and identified. These are genipic acid and genipinic acid, which are its carbomethoxyl derivative . Recently, the physical, physicochemical and chemical changes during maturation of Spanish medlar have been reported and flavanols in medlar fruit have been analyzed. More recently, changes in mineral composition at different stages of maturity of medlar , fatty acid composition during ripening of medlar , fatty acid composition during development and maturation of medlar fruit , volatile components of its seeds and polyphenoloxidase from medlar fruits  have been reported. Besides these studies, data on the nutritional value of medlars are still scarce.