Aloe vera gel is used as an ingredient in commercially available lotions, yogurt, beverages, and some desserts, although at certain doses, it has toxic properties when used either for ingested or topical applications.
Aloe vera could be considered a superfood, the leaf is filled with a gel containing at least 75 nutrients, 20 minerals, 12 vitamins, 18 amino acids, and 200 active enzymes. These compounds have tremendous benefit and potential in external and internal applications.
What better way than by drinking in these vitamin benefits of Aloe vera juice while building the body's defense system naturally against stress. Start in small amounts and check with your doctor before beginning an Aloe Vera regimen.
Star apple is a fruit commonly grown in the orchards of central and southern parts of Viet Nam, though the most famous ones are located in Can Tho Province in the Mekong Delta.
The fruit appears round with a smooth texture that is often green or violet. But when cut open, it reveals a fragrant white flesh resembling the shape of a star, of which how it is named after.
The fruitâ??s Vietnamese name, Vu Sua (meaning milk from the breast), is owed to the milky sweet juice contained in its flesh.
The star apple could be eaten in many ways. A simple way would be to peel the fruit with a sharp knife and take bitefuls from it, careful not to swallow its seeds.
But this may cause most of its sweet-tasting juice to be wasted. Cutting up the fruit into two parts and using spoon to scoop out the pulp carefully is less messy and saves its precious juice for you to enjoy.
Orchard growers eat the fruit as a whole by first squeezing it until it becomes tender and that the juice mixes up with its meat. They then drill a small hole on top of the fruit and drink the flow of mixed-up meat and sweet juice.
Avocados are mostly consumed fresh as a salad fruit. However, in Viet Nam avocado mostly used as juice by grinding the flesh and mixing with milk giving a nice taste of a kind of a drink.
In Vietnam, avocados are mainly grown in the highlands (in Lam Dong province) and in the Mekong Delta areas.
It is the most important traditional fruit of Vietnam, both in terms of historical and economic significance.
Banana is a valuable food for people at all ages. Flowers and stem of young banana trees are also good vegetables.
Old banana stems are used as animal feed. Banana leaves are used to wrap cakes.
Banana seeds are an effective remedy for kidney stones and diabetes ...
Unripe banana contains 10% starch and 6.53% tannin. Ripe banana contains a lot of nutrients.
Fruiting Season: Bananas produce fruits all year round.
Green beans, French beans also known as Fine beans (British English), string beans in the northeastern and western United States and Mexico they are known as "ejotes". Also called snap beans or squeaky beans, are the unripe plant of specific cultivated varieties of the common bean.
Use:
Green beans are of nearly universal distribution. They are marketed canned, frozen, and fresh. Green beans are often steamed, boiled, stir-fried, or baked in casseroles.
A dish with green beans popular throughout the United States, particularly at Thanksgiving, is green bean casserole, which consists of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and French fried onions.
Some restaurants in the USA serve green beans that are battered and fried, and Japanese restaurants in the United States frequently serve green bean tempura.
Green beans are also sold dried and fried with vegetables such as carrots, corn, and peas.
Beans contain high concentrations of lectins and may be harmful if consumed in excess in uncooked or improperly cooked form.
The flavonol miquelianin (Quercetin 3-O-glucuronide) can be found in green beans.
Nata de coco is a chewy, translucent, jelly-like food product produced by the fermentation of coconut water, which gels through the production of microbial cellulose by Acetobacter xylinum.
Nata de coco is most commonly sweetened as a candy or dessert, and can accompany many things including pickles, drinks, ice cream, puddings and fruit mixes.
Nata de coco is highly regarded for its high dietary fibre, and its low fat and zero cholesterol content.
Strips of nata de coco are used in mass-produced bubble tea drinks as a healthier alternative to tapioca.
Production
The primarily coconut water dessert is produced through a series of steps from:
- Extraction of coconut water
- Fermentation of the coconut water with bacterial cultures
- Separating and cutting the produced mat of nata de coco
- Cleaning and washing the acetic acid out of the nata de coco
- Cutting to packaging
Many studies have shown that the antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity of Coconut Water may help with a number of minor to severe health conditions.
This nutrient rich drink has been used to regulate blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels, and it has been found to boost energy levels and increase metabolism in the human body.
Other conditions that it has been found to be effective at treating include stomach flu, dysentery, indigestion, constipation, intestinal worms, cholera, urinary abnormalities, urethral stone, malfunctioning kidneys, dry and itchy skin, age spots, and wrinkles.
Because of the suitable climate owing from its geographic origin, the best mangosteens are grown in Southeast Asian regions.
A known tropical fruit, it takes a great deal to successfully grow a Mangosteen tree in western countries.
Instead, most of these countries would import from mangosteen-growing regions and makes them available canned or frozen in their grocery stores and is still considered a rare produce item.
It takes 8-15 years for a mangosteen tree to bear fruits, of which why its fruits are deemed special. The rind of the mangosteen is dark purple marked by a yellowish resin.
It is eaten by first gently breaking through the skin around the middle and then pull or lightly twist the shells apart to open. Enclosed within its deep purple shells are elegantly-arranged white, soft and freshly-scented segments of its flesh.
The larger pulps contain a seed. The pulps could be simply removed from its shell by hand. They taste delicately sweet and slightly acidic with an after-taste similar to grapes or strawberries.
Mangosteen season in Vietnam lasts around May to August, where three varieties of the fruit are cultivated and harvested, one of which is the doi mangosteen.
However, each of these varieties has its own unique quality and all are delightfully tasty. In fact, along with mango, pineapple and cherimoya, mangosteen is considered as one of the four most delicious fruits in the world.
Lime is a term referring to a citrus fruit which is typically round, green to yellow in colour, 36 cm in diameter, and containing sour and acidic pulp.
Limes are a good source of vitamin C, and are often used to accent the flavours of foods and beverages. They are grown all year round and are usually smaller and less sour than lemons.
In cooking, lime is valued both for the acidity of its juice and the floral aroma of its zest. It is a very common ingredient in authentic Mexican, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. It is also used for its pickling properties in ceviche.
Lime leaves are also an herb in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Lime is frequently used to add flavour to cold and hot drinks, including water, tonic and other cocktails
The salted jelly-fish has been liked by world client. In manufacturing process, we take the jelly-fish apart 2 parts: body and leg, to make 2 excellent products: Body and Head of salted jelly-fish.
After our fisherman catch them from the sea, we mix with clean salt until solidify, then we pack in wooden box to export. We donot use any adjuvant and chemical which harm to human. It can be kept for a long time from the day we catch.
The yellowstripe scad is marketed fresh, frozen, as a dried fish snack as well as several novel ways including fish powder, surimi and burgers.
The yellowstripe scad is commonly used as a dried fish snack in Asian countries, processed either by salting, curing or mechanical drying, with extensive trials on the optimum conditions and chemical agents for production.
Durien is very very special: either you love it or you can't stand it. But one thing is clear: it smells unpleasant, unless you are eating it. Durian has indeed a special tempting smell. The strong smell can go straight to your nose.
In Viet Nam, the fruit bears a quite austere name: Sầu Ri�ªng (one's own sorrows). Sầu Ri�ªng (Durian) is an expensive fruit.
One durian fruit is five to six times larger than a cantaloupe. Its skin is thick, rough, and covered with sharp thorns, similar to a jackfruit.
To eat: gently cut between the edges of the outer shell, then open the fruit to expose the layers of bright yellow segments of meat that make the pulp.
If you belong to those who love Sầu Ri�ªng, the taste of the fruit is as sweet as well-kept honey.
Those who have not enjoyed the fruit before may find it hard to eat. But it is said that once they have tried it, they are likely to seek it again.
This is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist. It has a crisp texture when fresh.
The most commonly eaten part of a carrot is a taproot, although the greens are edible as well. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia.
The domestic carrot has been selectively bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot.
Use:
The sweetness of carrots allows the vegetable to be used in some fruit-like roles. Grated carrots are used in carrot cakes, as well as carrot puddings, an old English dish.
Carrots can also be used alone or with fruits in jam and preserves. Carrot juice is also widely marketed, especially as a health drink, either stand-alone or blended with fruits and other vegetables.
Carrots can be eaten in a variety of ways. Only 3% of the �²-carotene in raw carrots is released during digestion: this can be improved to 39% by pulping, cooking and adding cooking oil.
Alternatively they may be chopped and boiled, fried or steamed, and cooked in soups and stews, as well as baby and pet foods.
A well known dish is carrots julienne. The greens are edible as a leaf vegetable, but are rarely eaten by humans.
Together with onion and celery, carrots are one of the primary vegetables used in a mirepoix to make various broths.
Though widely grown in the countryâ??s Southern provinces, mangoes are most abundant between March to May, known as Vietnamâ??s mango season.
The country grows many different varieties of this fruit, of which the Cat mango (Ben Cat mango), Tuong mango (elephant mango) and Xiem mango (Siamese mango) are the most popular.
Each variety has a unique flavour, smell and taste, but all are generally sweet and tasty. In fact, the mango is branded as one of the best-tasting fruits ever.
When young, the fruit could be very green and gradually turns yellow, and when at its brightest yellow, indicates its ripeness.
With its succulent sweetness and invigorating smell, all the fruitsâ?? flavour is contained in its smooth-textured flesh on both cheeks hugging a single flat and oblong pit that is usually fibrous or hairy on the surface.
To eat: Peel the fruit and carve the flesh lengthwise on both sides, keeping the knife as close as possible to the seed in the centre.
As others eliminate the seeds, many still opt to serve it along with the delectable fleshy sliced sides. Served as an appetizer, the mango is best eaten fresh right after sliced in parts.
They are also considered part of certain dishes, yet, using it as an ingredient for desserts is common. Mango juice and the dessert "Mango and Sticky (glutinous) Rice" are popular desserts in Viet Nam that incorporates this delicious fruit in its recipes.
Green orange is a cultivar of citrus fruit similar to an orange, originating in Vietnam.
The fruit may be easily recognized by its thick skin, which is typically bright green (because of which, it is sometimes referred to as a green orange), although the skin may also be partly green and partly orange, or entirely orange.
Its flesh is orange, dark and sweet.
Ham Yen oranges is the best kind oranges and considered one of 50 specialties from Vietnam. They're famous for the sweet, aromatic crispy and high nutritional value.
Watermelon is a popular fruit, used as cooling food on hot summer holidays ,because of the fresh water and at the same time give your body vitamins and trace elements precious.
STYLE : Frozen water melon-IQF Specification
COLOUR : very dark green with stripes; red flesh
SHAPE : 10 x10 x10 mm or 15 x15 x15 mm
DIAMETER : 10-20 mm
Brix : 9 min
Packing : 10 kgs /PE bag/ carton or buyer's request
