What wonderful fruit is? The answer one – grapefruit!

Grapefruit is a hybrid of a pampelmuse and orange. This wonderful fruit in the countries of the Mediterranean, Japan, China, South America and in the Caucasus grows. The first mention of grapefruit belongs to the 18th century when the English seamen on Barbados came across strange trees with the fruits hanging like grapes.

Interestingly! Citrus paradisi - "paradise citrus" is a Latin name of grapefruit.

Chemical composition

Fruits of grapefruit contain 88.5-90.9% of water, 3.8-6.78% of sugars, 1.42-2.38% of acids, essential oil, pectinaceous and dyes, mineral salts, vitamins C (up to 45 mg of %), B1, D, R, a glycoside naringin, the bitterish relish impacting to fruits. In the crust making up to 30-40% of weight of fruits,-9.19-19.04% of pectinaceous substances, essential oil, glycosides.

Grapefruit and excess weight

Grapefruit contains special substance – naringin which impacts to a fruit bitterish relish and, at the same time accelerates digestion process. Grapefruit stimulates a metabolism that leads to parting with unnecessary kilograms. The grapefruit diet will help you to get rid of 3-4 extra kilos. Besides, it is one of the few diets which can adhere during the winter period as fruits of grapefruit contain a large amount of vitamins.

Interestingly! The recipe of beauty from Sophia Loren: every day she eats on grapefruit.

One of options of a grapefruit diet

To eat two fruits a day or to drink two glasses of grapefruit juice. To refuse fat grades of meat and fish, spices (except red pepper), to reduce amount of salt in a diet. To have green tea without sugar. The last meal has to be up to 6-7 o'clock in the evening.

Diet duration: 7 days

Carefully! The people having gastritises and stomach ulcer in order to avoid exacerbations of diseases should refuse a grapefruit diet. Besides, to avoid side effects, surely consult with the doctor about potential impact of the consumption of grapefruits during intake of the appointed medicines.

Grapefruit and skin

In house and industrial cosmetics juice, pulp and a crust of fruits of grapefruit because these universal raw materials which suit any type of skin is widely used.

House recipes

• Freeze several segments of grapefruit in the refrigerator. Massage them a face and a neck of 5-8 minutes. In 10 minutes to rinse skin with water and to apply the moisturizing cream.

• To mix 1 tablespoon of pulp of grapefruit with 1 teaspoon of sour cream, a teaspoon of carrot juice and 1 tablespoon of rice flour. To put mix on a face, a neck, a breast for 30 minutes. Then to unmask, to wash skin with water and to grease with grapefruit juice, allowing it to dry. Such mask is recommended to do for the withering skin.

• Small cut a peel of grapefruit and add to water when you take a bath. The citrus aroma will take off fatigue and will save from a stress.

• For 10-15 minutes apply thin segments of grapefruit to the coarsened skin. After the procedure grease skin with fat cream.

• Place a grapefruit peel in china and fill in it with boiled cold water, insist within a day then accurately filter. The received fruit water can be used for cleaning of face skin.

• Mix a yolk of 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of liquid honey and 1/2 teaspoons of juice of grapefruit. The mask is suitable for dry skin.

• Mix 1 tablespoon of juice of grapefruit about ½ tablespoons of oat flour. Put on a face for 15-20 minutes, then wash away cool water. The mask is ideal for oily skin.

• Mash a fork pulp of a half of grapefruit without films. Mix it with 2 tablespoons of cream. Put mix in the refrigerator approximately for 1 hour. Then impose it on face skin for 20-25 minutes. Wash away cool water.