Do you like vegetable salads? Especially with a delicious dressing? Do you know what kind of "forbidden fruit" we have today? Then this post will be useful to you!
Usually our salads are seasoned with mayonnaise, rarely vegetable oil. Even less often - yogurt.
And almost never - they prepare a dressing based on lemon juice, mustard, oil and something else.
If you fall under those "never" and prefer interesting salad dressings, and mayonnaise is not good for you, then try, for the sake of experiment, to replace lemon juice with... grapefruit juice! Instead of lemon juice or vinegar.
Believe me, you will be very surprised how much more tender and aromatic such a dressing for vegetable salads will turn out.
Only be careful with white films and a partition - they give bitterness.
And now a little history of that "forbidden fruit", as you might have guessed it, of course, grapefruit.
Grapefruit is a bright, juicy, beautiful and incredibly healthy fruit! Especially in the off-season, because it is rich in vitamins, which means it improves immunity.
It also saturates our skin with antioxidants, reduces appetite due to its tart taste and helps to lose weight.
Interestingly, there is no evidence from antiquity about grapefruit. Because they did not exist then.
In the manuscripts of the 1st-2nd centuries. BC. there are mentions of lemons and oranges. Even about tangerines, if you delve into the manuscripts, you can find something a couple of thousand years before us. But there is nothing about grapefruit!
The thing is that this amazing citrus became known to the world much later.
Namely in 1750. This was done by the Welsh botanist-priest Griffiths Hughes or the Reverend Griffith Hughes (1707 - about 1758), according to other sources.
He was in Barbados on a Christian mission and while studying botany in parallel, a naturalist priest, he also looked into the Bible. And what did he see there?
About this Hughes wrote the book "The Natural History of Barbados", in which he included the first description of a grapefruit, then unknown to the civilized world.
As a priest, Griffith, designated the grapefruit with the appropriate name, he called the fruit as the "forbidden fruit", believing that it was the grapefruit that was the reason why Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise.
Hughes' work was highly praised by K. Linnaeus, but many then considered it a "scientific fraud."
Do you know why? Because no one could believe that nature could create something in between a lemon and an orange, or maybe a pomegranate took part there. This could only be done by fraudsters, or some kind of miracle created... gods ?!
The forbidden fruit of the red fruit with red pulp was not for long, since a little later Jamaican traders renamed it to the very "grapefruit". What really meant... grape fruit!
Well, where does the grape (grape from English), you ask? We will never see this, since we do not live in the region where grapefruit grows, but these fruits grow, gathering on the branches in real brushes, resembling the shape of grape.
That's all for today!
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