Spring Salad with Strawberries and Creamy Orange-Avocado Dressing Recipe

Are you looking for a very healthy and nutritional salad to brighten up a meal this week consider this one. Spring Salad with Strawberries and Creamy Orange-Avocado Dressing. This seasonal salad calls on spring all-stars asparagus and strawberries for a satisfying salad. The blended avocado results in a smooth and creamy coating for the salad.

Ingredients: 

 3 roughly chopped green onions 

1/2 avocado, peeled and pitted 

1/2 cup fresh squeezed Orange juice 

1/8 teaspoon Real Salt sea salt 

1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper 

3 ounce package of spring greens

1 cup sliced fresh strawberries 

 1/2 pound asparagus, trimmed and sliced into strips with a vegetable peeler 

Directions: 

Puree green onions, avocado, fresh orange juice, Real Salt and pepper in a blender or food processor until smooth to make a dressing. 

In a large bowl, toss greens, strawberries and asparagus together. 

Transfer to plates, drizzle with half the dressing and serve. Extra dressing will keep about one day refrigerated.

Nutritional Information:

Per Serving:120 calories (35 from fat), 4g total fat, 0.5g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 170mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (7g dietary fiber, 11g sugar), 4g protein

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Flavanones Compounds In Oranges May Reduce Risk Of Stroke In Women

Oranges are not only sweet and delicious but also they are very healthy. Latest research, which will be published in the April issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, provides another reason to eat oranges and citrus fruits on a regular basis. While past research showed that oranges reduce cholesterol levels and decrease blood pressure, this new observational study suggests that they reduce stroke risk as well.

This research shows that naturally occurring compounds called flavanones in citrus fruits are linked to reduced risk for ischemic stroke in women. Ischemic stroke occurs if there is a decrease in blood supply to the brain due to a blocked artery. The compounds also improve blood circulation, reduce inflammation and improve overall cardiovascular health.

The researchers followed a group of 70,000 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study for 14 years. Women in the study filled out questionnaires every four years to report their eating habits. The research team calculated the flavonoid content in food by using the flavonoid database from the US Department of Agriculture.

Whole Oranges Are Better Than Juice Or Supplements

Some of the women in the study consumed these compounds by drinking orange and grapefruit juice. However, the researchers mention that it is better to eat the whole fruit to increase intake of the healthy flavanones from citrus fruits.

Researchers also concluded that it is better to eat the whole fruit instead of vitamin C supplements. In their study, vitamin C did not correlate with reduction of stroke risk.

They believe that flavanones such as naringenin and hesperetin may be responsible because they have strong anti-inflammatory properties. These compounds also have an impact on the production of nitric oxide which relaxes blood vessels.

Oranges Are Good For Men Too

Previous research showed that flavonoids in oranges decrease cholesterol levels in the body. They also decrease your blood pressure. In a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that oranges have flavonoid compounds called hesperidin which reduce blood pressure and lower cardiovascular risk. All the volunteers in this hesperidin study were men; evidence that oranges are good for men's cardiovascular health as well.

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Do You Love Fresh OJ Then Get Your Fix At Sunburst Oranges

Juice Oranges might not be perfect or beautiful on the outside, but it's really what's on the inside that counts. Cartons can be purchased by a 20lb box or a 40lb box.

Why make your own fresh squeezed orange juice?

What happens with Industrially-produced orange juice, is after the oranges are squeezed, the juice is stored in giant holding tanks and the oxygen is removed from them.  This allows the liquid to keep for up to a year without spoiling. This makes the juice completely flavorless. Then the industry uses “flavor packs” to re-flavor the juice.

Fresh squeezed orange juice can be a good source of vitamins and other nutrients. Squeezing your own at home would be about the only way to get the real flavor and these nutrients.

40lb Carton Sunburst Juice Oranges perfect for home juicing.
Carton contains approx. 80-113 oranges  $20.00

20lb Carton Sunburst Juice Oranges perfect for home juicing.
Carton contains approx. 40-56 oranges  $10.00

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Fruit Fiasco: Truck Spills Thousands of Oranges on Road

We saw this news story and thought you might want to know that some of the oranges were salvaged and used for juicing and some given to local food banks to be cleaned and given out with the food baskets.

The fruit fiasco happened in Pala, in San Diego's North County

The road was near the Pechanga Resort and Casino and was closed Tuesday morning after a tractor trailer overturned.

Vitamin C, anyone? A road in north San Diego County was covered in oranges Tuesday morning after a truck’s trailer overturned, spilling the fruit by the thousands into the street.

The trailer tipped over in the 38600 block of Pala-Temecula Rd. in Pala just before 9:30 a.m.

Helicopter video of the scene showed the fruit had spilled from dozens of bins secured on the tipped-over trailer. As a result, the road was a very bright orange color, as opposed to its usual earth tones.

California Highway Patrol officials shut down southbound traffic at Pechanga Parkway and Pala-Temecula Road at Deer Hollow Way after the spill. A SigAlert was issued for the area.

The California Highway Patrol said that it would take two or three hours to clean up the mess and reopen the roadway.

No injuries were reported, officials said. The accident is under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.

Did you know that 2014 was a banner year for food spills on the nation’s highways?

The year started off slowly, but finally in March, there was a corndog spill near Shreveport, La.

The spills started picking up steam in the summer. There were two separate Bud Light spills in 2014: The first, in June, happened in North Dakota, and was followed by a September spill in the Houston area. A massive Red Bull spill menaced I-95 in Florida in early July.

In August, a fish spill took place in Thailand. Woof. Closer to home, a "cranberry sludge" spill marred a Massachusetts roadway, while a butter-and-whipped-cream spill hit Indianapolis that same month.

November saw a spill of frozen turkeys—what else?—in California. (Better that than the truck carrying live turkeys that overturned in Virginia over the summer. And better that than the overturned truck carrying live calves, half of which were killed in the accident.

If you are looking for the perfect wholesome gift for a business associates, family or friends? A quick visit to http://sunburstoranges.com can solve all of your fresh gift giving adventures. We sell only the finest selections and the freshest citrus you can buy.

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Plastics Made From Oranges At Cornell

Yes, that’s right plastics made from oranges.  Actually they are made from limonene oxide (oxidized orange peel oil). A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery -- how to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide.

Professor Geoffrey Coates, left, holds the reactor he used to make a polymer using a citrus fruit extract and carbon dioxide, as postdoctoral chemistry associate Scott Allen, center, and chemistry doctoral student Chris Byrne display other ingredients essential to the novel process. Byrne is holding a flask of limonene oxide (oxidized orange peel oil), and Allen holds a beaker containing the polymer they created.  Credit: Nicola Kountoupes / Cornell University Photography

In industry, Coates explains, the orange peel oil is extracted for various uses, such as giving household cleaners their citrus scent. The oil can be oxidized to create limonene oxide. This is the reactive compound that Coates and his collaborators used as a building block.

The other building block they used was carbon dioxide (CO2), an atmospheric gas that has been rising steadily over the past century and a half -- due largely to the combustion of fossil fuels -- becoming an environmentally harmful greenhouse gas.

By using their catalyst to combine the limonene oxide and CO2, the Coates group produced a novel polymer -- called polylimonene carbonate -- that has many of the characteristics of polystyrene, a petroleum-based plastic currently used to make many disposable plastic products.

"The polymer is a repeating unit, much like a strand of paper dolls. But instead of repeating dolls, the components alternate between limonene oxide and CO2 -- in the polymer," says Coates. Neither limonene oxide nor CO2 form polymers on their own, but when put together, a promising product is created.

Almost every plastic out there, from the polyester in clothing to the plastics used for food packaging and electronics, goes back to the use of petroleum as a building block. If you can get away from using oil and instead use readily abundant, renewable and cheap resources, then that's something we need to investigate. What's exciting about this work is that from completely renewable resources, they were able to make a plastic with very nice qualities.

The Coates research team is particularly interested in using CO2 as an alternative building block for polymers. Instead of being pumped into the atmosphere as a waste product, CO2 could be isolated for use in producing plastics, such as polylimonene carbonate.

The Coates laboratory comprises 18 chemists, about half of them striving to make recyclable and biodegradable materials out of cheap, readily available and environmentally friendly building blocks. Today industry uses things once and throw them away because plastics are cheap and abundant. It won't be like that in the future. says At some point we will look back and say, Wow, remember when we would take plastic containers and just throw them away?

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Sunburst Oranges Presents Orange-Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe

While this blog post title says dessert these tasty muffins would work equally well as a special breakfast treat. Fresh squeezed orange juice and a hint of orange zest add a very bright flavor dimension to these mouthwatering chocolate chip muffins.

Ingredients 

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon Real Salt

1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate morsels

2 large eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup milk

2 fresh squeezed oranges

1 tablespoon finely shredded orange peel

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 Wilton ready-to-use icing tube (your choice of flavor) 

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Use center rack.

Line twelve 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with paper baking cups; set aside. 

In a large bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in chocolate pieces. Make a well in the center of flour mixture; set aside.

In a medium bowl combine eggs, sugar, milk, zested orange peel, ½ cup orange juice, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened (expect batter to be lumpy).

Spoon 1/4 cup of the batter into each prepared muffin cup. 

Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean and dry.

Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Squeeze generously with lines of icing. Serve while still warm.

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Sunburst Oranges Asks: Are You Looking For A POP Of Orange Color In Your Desert Landscaping?

Do you want to add a pop of orange color to your desert landscaping? Do you want a very low maintenance plant? Does desert plants that are perennial (you need to plant them only once), hardy, low care, relatively drought resistant, easy to find, pretty cheap to buy, and provide lovely color many times during the year sound like a great idea for your lawn?.

Then you just may want to consider an Orange Jubilee.

The botanical name for Orange Jubilee is Bignoniaceae, Tecoma hybrid. The Orange Jubilee is an evergreen shrub that loves sun and heat. It blooms from late spring through early fall. These desert plants are drought resistant, and do well in almost any soil. 

The Orange Jubilee blooms are bright orange and tubular; they look like elongated bells, which is why some people call them Orange Bells plants. This desert plant attracts hummingbirds and bees. The leaves are a vibrant green color. Orange Jubilee plants will normally grow to 8 feet tall or more, and several feet wide. 

Orange Jubilees can be trimmed to control size and can be shaped, but most are left natural allowing branches to get longish and weepy. If they get frost damaged in the winter, just cut them back and they will grow again in the spring.

With these plants loose clusters of orange trumpet-like blooms are borne from mid-summer to fall on this upright to spreading woody perennial to large shrub. More freely flowering and larger growing in mild winter climates but still performs well as a die-back summer and fall flowering perennial once they are well-established.

You can see from the photograph why some folks refer to these flowers as Orange Trumpet Flowers. Their graceful shape and bright orange color make them a popular addition to nearly any desert landscape.

You’ll think you were invited to a joyous celebration as you watch this large, fast-growing shrub claim its spot in the garden. With lush green foliage and flashy orange flowers blooming most of the year, it looks like the party is always on. Better yet, it does best if left to grow in spots with full or reflected sun. It lives lightly on the land, only needing small amounts of water to thrive, and remember attracts beautiful hummingbirds.

If you are looking for the perfect wholesome gift for a business associates, family or friends? A quick visit to http://sunburstoranges.com can solve all of your fresh gift giving adventures. We sell only the finest selections and the freshest citrus you can buy.

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