What is this wonderful fruit? Only one answer - Grapefruit!
 With the help of a grapefruit can fight wrinkles, acne, dry and loose skin.

Grapefruit - a hybrid of shaddock and orange. It grows this wonderful fruit in the Mediterranean countries, Japan, China, South America and the Caucasus. The first mention of grapefruit refers to the 18th century, when British sailors Barbados came across a strange trees with hanging like grapes fruit.

Interesting!   Citrus paradisi - «heavenly citrus" - is the Latin name of a grapefruit.

Chemical composition

The grapefruit fruit contained 88, 5-90, 9% water, 3, 8-6, 78% of sugars, 1, 42-2, 38% acid, volatile oil, pectin and dyes, mineral salts, vitamin C (until 45 mg%), B1, D, F, glycoside naringin, which gives the fruit a bitter taste. In the crust component 30-40% of the weight of fruit, -9, 19-19, 04% pectin, essential oil, glycosides.

Grapefruit and overweight

Grapefruit contains a special ingredient - naringin, which gives the fruit a bitter taste and, at the same time speeds up the digestive process. Grapefruit stimulates the metabolism, which leads to a parting with unnecessary weight. Grapefruit Diet helps you get rid of the 3-4 extra kilos. In addition, it is one of the few diets that can be stick in the winter, because the fruit contains a large grapefruit vitamins.

Interesting!   Recipe beauty from Sophia Loren: Every day she eats grapefruit.

 What is this wonderful fruit? Only one answer - Grapefruit!
 One option Grapefruit Diet

To eat two fruit per day or drink three glasses of grapefruit juice. Refuse fatty meats and fish, spices (except paprika), reduce the amount of salt in the diet. Drink green tea without sugar. The last meal should be up to 6-7 pm.

The duration of the diet: 7 days

Caution   From Grapefruit Diet is to give people suffering from gastritis and ulcers stomach to prevent relapse of disease. In addition, to avoid side effects, you should consult with your doctor about the possible impact of the use of grapefruit while taking prescription medications.

Grapefruit and leather

In the home and industrial cosmetics is widely used juice, pulp and peel of fruits of grapefruit, because it is a universal commodity, which is suitable to any skin type.

 What is this wonderful fruit? Only one answer - Grapefruit!
 Home Recipes

• Freeze refrigerated a few slices of grapefruit. Massage of face and neck, 5-8 minutes. After 10 minutes, rinse your skin with water and apply moisturizer.

• Mix 1 tablespoon of grapefruit pulp with 1 teaspoon of sour cream, a teaspoon of carrot juice and 1 tablespoon of rice flour. The mixture was put on the face, neck, chest for 30 minutes. Then remove the mask, rinse the skin with water and rub the juice of grapefruit, allowing it to dry. This mask is recommended to do for aging skin.

• Finely chop the peel of grapefruit and add water when you take a bath. Citrus aroma relieve fatigue and relieve stress.

• At 10-15 minutes to attach the coarse skin of thin slices of grapefruit. After the procedure lubricate the skin with fat cream.

• Place the peel of grapefruit in china and fill it with cold boiled water, leave for the day, and then carefully strain. The resulting fruit water can be used to clean the skin.

• Mix 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of liquid honey and 1/2 teaspoon of grapefruit juice. The mask is suitable for dry skin.

• Mix 1 tablespoon of grapefruit juice with ½ tablespoon of oatmeal. Apply on face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with cool water. The mask is ideal for oily skin.

• Mash the pulp with a fork half grapefruit without the films. Mix it with 2 tablespoons of cream. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. After that, apply it on your face for 20-25 minutes. Rinse with cool water.
Author: Inna Sedykh