Fruit for Gifts Should not Cut into pieces

Child's school or work often took with them the fruit that has been cut into pieces to be eaten at the office or school. But you should take the whole fruit, skin is edible and does not need to be cut so that nutrients are not lost.

When someone brings a fruit that has been cut into pieces as a preparation to work or school, then the color of the fruit itself may be brown. This suggests a reaction, such as vitamin C in the fruit react with oxygen in the outside so that it becomes oxidized and reduced causing abortion.

"If you want to bring lunch, bring a fruit that does not need to cut skin and can be eaten like apples, grapes or strawberries," said Dr. Inge Permadhi, MS, in the event SpGK Nutritalk: Inspiration for Women Healthy Indonesia in Hong Kong Cafe, Jakarta, Tuesday (7 / 6 / 2011).

In addition Dr. Inge also said that the fruit is eaten along with the skin has more advantages because it can increase the amount of fiber consumed by the body.

He pointed out if someone is eating apples peeled then the amount of 2 grams fiber, but if the skin is eaten then the amount of fiber to 4 gr. Meanwhile, in a small bowl of vegetables contain as much as 4 grams of fiber.

"The needs of fiber a day was by 25-30 grams. So if a person eats an apple with the skin he had to eat 8 apples, peeled his skin but if he should eat 15 apples," he said.

Dr. Inge said if someone blending the fruit is still there and the fibers contained more easily. But if the fruit is eaten whole the more vitamin content and is not oxidized.

"If I'm bored so let me not that I cocol fruit salad with a little sauce, and chewed fruit can also help so that the teeth are not porous," says nutrition specialist from the Department of Nutritional Sciences Faculty of medicine.