Fruit contains a rich variety of vitamins and fibre just as attractively packaged.
IF an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then a papaya a day may keep night-blindness at bay. Eat half a medium-sized fruit, or 400gm, then you have absorbed your daily allowance of carotenoids and have reduced your risk of vitamin A deficiency. If you are not even consuming the minimum of between three and five servings of fruit per day, then you are depriving yourself of many protective nutrients. Best of all, the nutrients are less toxic, more easily converted and absorbed as compared to a supplement, which can turn toxic if consumed in large doses. One guava, for instance, contains 81gm of moisture for every 100gm portion.