Wednesday, January 28, 2009
One Day The Only Blood
..spilling in the Middle East will come from Blood OrangesĀ®. One day they'll barely remember why they were fighting... one day FAR into the future. I'm not sure, though, that eating these Blood OrangesĀ® would do much for their temperament today...
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It's not intuitive, you know... Orange slices the color of raw meat....They're very sweet and somehow tart... You can tell that lemons and limes are their cousins... Blood oranges are hence a good cocktail ingredient and work well in marmelade, baking, and gelato.
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Seedless, no. Colorful, yes. The flesh color is due to anthocyanin, a pigment common to fruits and flowers, but rare in the citrus family. This pigment is very good for you - it can diminish the risk for heart disease, some type s of cancer, and cataracts.
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