Oranges and Vitamin D - The Healthy Sunshine Fruit

Juicy and sweet and renowned for its concentration of vitamin C, oranges make the perfect snack and add a special tang to many recipes; it is no wonder that they are one of the most popular fruits in the world. Oranges are generally available from winter through summer with seasonal variations depending on the variety.

Here is the strange outcome of our title.  Oranges are not a great source of Vitamin D.  And products, like Orange Juice that contain it, is because the Vitamin D was added to the drink during processing.

Here is a list of the vitamins that oranges contain naturally:

Vitamin A
Vitamin A is an important nutrient for vision, and for healthy skin. However, it can be toxic in excessive quantities — an overdose can damage the skin, make bones weak or brittle, and induce fatigue and vomiting. Consult your physician before exceeding the U.S. recommended daily allowance of vitamin A.

B Vitamins
Water-soluble B vitamins play important roles in cell metabolism. Among the B vitamins contained in oranges: vitamin B1, or thiamine, which helps the body process protein, fat, and carbohydrates; vitamin B2, or riboflavin, which converts carbohydrates into fuel and activates vitamin B6 and folic acid; vitamin B3, or niacin, processes alcohol, forms fats from carbohydrates, and regulates cholesterol; vitamin B5, or panthotenic acid, helps the body get energy from fats, synthesizes cholesterol, and helps activate adrenal glands; vitamin B9, or folate, helps the body to produce red blood cells; and vitamin B6, which regulates moods and mental processes by helping to form neurotransmitters, dopamine, hormones, melatonin, and serotonin.

Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a water-soluble substance that acts as an antioxidant, and contributes to the general health of the body in various ways. In reducing the clumping of platelets and the stiffness of arteries, it can protect against certain types of heart disease. It also strengthens blood vessels and muscles by helping the body to produce collagen, and is a natural antihistamine. Vitamin C also contributes to healing, combats viruses, assists in liver bile formation, and detoxifies the body.

Vitamin E
Vitamin E helps the body process glucose, and its antioxidant properties may protect against some types of cancer and heart disease. Vitamin E may also protect against toxins from air pollution, premenstrual syndrome, cataracts, skin damage due to ultraviolet radiation, diabetes, and certain neurological disorders. Because it boosts the activity level of the immune system, vitamin E has limited benefits for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and asthma.

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Creatures Who Have Made Orange Famous

As our regular readers know we tend to share the strange and unusual side of oranges, their various uses and all things orange on Wednesday. Today we are going to show somwe images of orange color that have become part of our everyday life.

Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkins

A carved pumpkin, or turnip, associated chiefly with the holiday of Halloween and named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, the top is cut off to form a lid and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous or comical face, is carved out of the pumpkin's rind to expose the hollow interior. To create the lantern effect, a light source (such as a candle or tea light) is placed within before the lid is closed. This is traditionally a flame or electric candle, though pumpkin lights featuring various colors and flickering effects are also marketed specifically for this purpose. It is common to see jack-o'-lanterns on doorsteps and otherwise used as decorations prior to and during Halloween.

Orange Colored Safety Gear

High-visibility (HV) clothing, a type of personal protective equipment (PPE), is any clothing worn that has highly reflective properties or a color that is easily discernible from any background. Yellow waistcoats worn by emergency services are a common example. Occupational wearers of clothing with high-visibility features include railway and highway workers, airport workers, or other places where workers are near moving vehicles or in dark areas. Some cyclists wear high-visibility clothing when riding amongst motor vehicles. Hunters may be required to wear designated high-visibility clothing to prevent accidental shooting.

Garfield The Cat

Garfield is a fictional character and the title protagonist from the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis. The comic strip centers on Garfield and portrays him to be a lazy, fat and cynical orange cat. He loves lasagna and coffee, and hates Mondays, Nermal and raisins. Garfield relates to many because of his passion for food, his ability to just eat a lot, and his lack of motivation to work out. Sleep is his favorite hobby and to him, "Diet is 'die' with a 't'".

Mae West Life Jacket

A personal flotation device (abbreviated as PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is piece of equipment designed to assist a wearer, who may be either conscious or unconscious, to keep afloat.

PFDs are available in different sizes to accommodate variances in body weight. Designs differ depending on wearing convenience and level of protection.

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Porterville, CA  93257

559-561-3391

Orange-Roasted Seafood with White Miso Sauce Recipe

Depending upon what you are trying to effect, use flavors boldly or sometimes subtly. Here is a recipe using fresh oranges and seafood, mixed with white miso sauce and scallions, and is baked in a shell of scooped-out orange. 

Ingredients

4 navel oranges
Real Salt
1 bunch scallions, roots and ends trimmed
8 oysters, freshly shucked
1 pound fresh squid, bodies only, chopped into thin strips
4 large shrimp, shelled and deveined
1 cup white miso sauce

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Cut off the top 1/3 of each orange. Use a curved grapefruit knife to scoop out the insides of the oranges. Reserve the pulp for a fruit salad or other use. Reserve the orange shell to use as a cooking vessel.

Bring a medium skillet of salted water to a simmer. Add the scallions and cook for 30 seconds. With tongs, rinse the scallions under cold running water; pat dry on paper towels.

Holding the root ends, run the back of a large knife down the length of the scallions, pressing down to squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Slice into 1-inch pieces. In the same skillet, slip the oysters, squid, and shrimp into the water and poach over low heat until the edges of the oysters curl, 10 to 15 seconds. Immediately transfer to a bowl; do not overcook.

Pour 2 tablespoons of the white miso sauce into each orange shell. Spoon the seafood mixture in next, mounding as needed. Finally, top with another 2 tablespoons of the white miso sauce.

Bake the seafood-stuffed oranges for 10 minutes, or until hot throughout. Transfer to individual plates and serve immediately.

Total Time: 26 minutes
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 11 minutes
4 Servings

Alternate plating shown. Orange segments chopped, cooked with seafood and all served over rice. 

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Eating Oranges and Drinking Orange Juice With Kidney Disease

We recently ran across a question on the Internet that sparked a search to find out more information.  The question was… “Is It OK to Drink Orange Juice If You Have Stage 2 Kidney Disease?”

The answer came from http:// www.renaldiseases.org and it was; “Stage 2 Kidney Disease belongs to  an early stage of kidney disease. Since there is no obvious symptoms in the stage, patients usually are required to have a regular observation and balanced diet plan as well as healthy lifestyles.

To be frank, orange juice is a popular and delicious beverage in our daily life and favored by most people due to its abundant nutrients. Some kidney disease patients wonder whether they can drink orange juice or not. Actually, stage 2 kidney disease patients also can get benefits from drinking the orange juice.

1. Provide Vitamin C

Orange juice is rich in vitamin C which is good for strengthening immune system and enhance your immunity. Then, you will be less likely to catch various diseases, such as cold or flu. In addition, it also can enhance the anti-damage ability. And they

2. Inflammatory Properties

It is researched that orange juice has anti-inflammatory properties. The antioxidants in orange juice help prevent inflammation that can be caused by the action of free radicals. This fruit juice is also beneficial for those inflammatory conditions like arthritis and asthma. In addition, drinking the juice also can decrease the risk of urinary tract infection.

3. Reduce Blood Pressure

Regular intake of the orange juice can help maintain myocardial function and lower blood pressure. A particular flavonone in oranges is helpful in lowering high blood pressure.

4. Relieve Constipation

The beverage contains a large amount of fiber which can help promote stimulate peristalsis of the intestines and digestion.

Through the above analysis, we can see that orange juice is helpful for stage 2 kidney disease patients. But it’s my duty to tell you that diabetes should limit intake of the organ juice due to its high sugar level. Any questions you do not understand, please email to renal-disease@hotmail.com or leave a message below directly and we will do our best to help you.”

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There Is Nothing Better Than Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice

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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Sunburst Oranges Presents Five Foods That Can Improve Your Eyesight

From eggs to oranges, these everyday foods may just protect your vision and safeguard your eyes from common diseases.

Can your eyesight be improved naturally?

There are more than 25 million people worldwide who are affected by age-related macular degeneration and cataracts, which according to the American Optometric Association is the leading cause of blindness in people over age 55. These diseases are often caused by oxidation and inflammation of the eyes, but research has found that foods rich in the nutrients lutein and zeaxanthin can reduce the risk of chronic eye diseases. Other studies have found that a diet rich in vitamins C and E, beta carotene, zinc, and omega-3 fatty acids can also prevent age-related eye diseases. Here is a list of the five top sources you should start eating now to improve eyesight.

Eggs

One of the healthiest ways to start your day, protein-packed eggs are also provide nutrients such as lutein, vitamin E, and omega 3s, in addition to other nutrients and vitamins. Certain eggs are even better for you: Eggland’s Best eggs, for example, have 38 percent more lutein than regular eggs, 10 times the amount of vitamin E, and more than double the omega-3s in regular eggs. 

Oranges

These tasty citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C, which may help improve the health of your eye tissue, according to the Age-Related Eye Diseases Study, a major clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute. In the eye, vitamin C may help regenerate other important antioxidants, such as vitamin E.


Corn

It’s not just a tasty side; fresh corn also contains some lutein and zeaxanthin. Research in the Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry discovered that cooking this veggie longer increased the amount of lutein and the antioxidant levels per serving. Add it to your chilis, soups, and casseroles.

Broccoli

This fiber-rich veggie is rich in vitamin C, and also contains eye-boosting beta-carotene, as well as lutein and zeaxanthin. Add cooked broccoli to omelets and frittatas, or toss it in marinara sauces and pasta dishes.

Spinach

A single cup of nutrient-dense spinach packs a healthy 20.4 mg of lutein and zeaxanthin. Add spinach to sandwiches and wraps, use it as a salad starter, or make green smoothies with it.

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Porterville, CA  93257
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Sunburst Oranges Presents A Stack Of Fun Facts

Oranges are technically a hesperidia, a kind of berry. Orange, common name for citrus fruit of several trees. Different varieties include the sweet orange, the sour, or Seville orange, and the mandarin orange, or tangerine, all rich in vitamin C. It consists of several easily separated carpel’s, or sections, each containing several seeds and many juice cells, covered by a leathery exocarp, or skin, containing numerous oil glands.

No English word rhymes with orange.

About 25 billion oranges are grown each year in the United States.

You can unroll an orange. Slice off the top and bottom of the orange. Slice once top to bottom and then just unroll the orange into the segments.

The bottom of a navel orange looks like a bellybutton or a navel. Fruit specialists believe that the navel is a smaller fruit attached to the main orange. You can see this smaller fruit when you peel and separate a navel orange.

Alexander the Great washed his hair in saffron to keep it a lovely shiny orange color. During his time saffron was as rare as diamonds and more expensive than gold.

Canaries were originally a mottled greeny-brown, but 400 years of crossbreeding by humans produced their yellow color. If you add red peppers to their diet it turns their feathers a beautiful orange colors.

Orange, the British telecom company, was founded in 1994. Brand consultants Wolff Olins developed the orange square to emphasize the color, rather than the fruit. They drew on the Chinese aesthetic discipline of feng shui, in which orange is the color of purpose and organization, and is supposed to help focus concentration. In the same year, advertising agency WCRS came up with the tag line: “The future’s bright, the future’s Orange.”

The black box flight data recorders on aircraft are actually bright orange in color so that they can be found more easily. They were originally called “black boxes” because early electronic prototypes were stored in black metal boxes.

In Switzerland, oranges are sometimes served smothered with sugar and whipped cream. Europeans sometimes eat oranges with knives and forks.

Now go out and enjoy some delicious oranges.

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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Sunburst Oranges

180 South “E” Street

Porterville, CA  93257

559-561-3391