Inflammation – Limelight Nutrition

This post is an update on a previous post entitled ‘Probiotic Fizzy Lemonade’. You can check that out under Blog / Recipes. Since then I have tried new flavours for this homemade drink. I often use fresh pomegranate in my breakfast bowl but I came to try pomegranate as a fizzy drink flavour after my sister was clearing her kitchen of fresh produce to travel abroad and gave me a spare one. In that first batch I made I also added some fresh lime juice (as I just happen to have a left over lime). It turned out to be a delicious flavour combination. I’ve since made a little video of how to use a pomegranate to make probiotic fizzy drinks. [Click YouTube Icon below – it is 5 mins 31 seconds long]

Next time around I might add ‘star anise’ to the fermenting bottle of pomegranate to see how that flavour combination works. I have used star anise in Kombucha in the past. I really like the flavour it adds to the drink. Finding flavour combinations that appeal to you is a matter of experimenting, but no matter what the outcome, the drink remains a really healthy option!

I just need to NOTE here that every time you use a pomegranate the flavour outcome will depend on the quality and ripeness of the fruit. If you open a pomegranate and the seeds are a dark red and the juice rushes out as you cut into the fruit, this is likely to ultimately produce a richer, sweeter flavoured drink. Unfortunately, when buying a pomegranate it can be pot luck as to whether it is ideal for juicing. I have often purchased pomegranate that had quite dry and opaque looking seeds which are ok for sprinkling on your breakfast bowl or salad, but I wouldn’t recommend it for juicing. It’s hard to tell before you open the fruit what you are going to find inside!

If you have watched the video I hope you enjoyed it and realize I am not a professional video maker by far. I just produced it on my phone with an app called ‘Film Maker’ as a handy visual to follow. If you are like me, I tend to follow a visual better than reading down through written text. However, as previously stated, you will find the written instructions on how to make the ‘ginger bug’ starter and fizzy drink in my previous blog entitled ‘Probiotic Fizzy Lemonade’.

Enjoy 🙂

Anne

A new born baby has an absorbent mind, like a sponge! This allows the baby to easily learn the language spoken by the people around them. It does this learning so effortlessly it might appear that it was destined by its DNA just like the colour of its hair. But this is not the case! Language does not grow like hair and teeth. Acquiring a language is a learning skill that involves lots of interaction between the brain and the outside world. The child’s mind is particularly suited for this task. Amazing as this is, acquiring language doesn’t end with childhood. Have you noticed that when you embark on a new project, interest, area of study or line of work, there is a whole new language that goes with it? It dawns on me sometimes when I’m happily listing off the health benefits of a particular food, saying it’s anti this that and the other, that perhaps people don’t really get it. As adults we have a tendency to skim past what we don’t immediately understand. It’s like a foreign language, you just blank it out. So, I’d like to pause and explain a couple of very important ‘anti’s’ as they relate to nutrition and health.

Getting the Anti’s

Oxidation, inflammation, cancer, bacteria and viruses etc. are enemies to the health of the body which needs supportive nutrients and other factors to fight back. Simply put, if you wanted to address a bacterial threat you would choose anti-bacterial properties. So, in general, ‘anti’ as a prefix is a good thing! It is pretty obvious what anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-histamine, anti-aging and anti-cancer mean. Foods, supplements, essential oils, remedies etc. that have these ‘anti’ properties support the body in fighting that particular threat.

Inflammation and oxidation are less easily understood. We loosely associate inflammation with pain. We seek out anti-inflammatories at the Pharmacy for this, yet the harmful effects of inflammation go way, way beyond aches and pains! And, when it comes to oxidative damage, unless you have studied nutrition or biochemistry, you might easily glaze over with this one too.

So, if you want to read on, I will explain a little bit more about the insidious effects of inflammation and oxidation on the body, how it gets there and why we all need the support of anti-inflammatories and anti-oxidants.

Limelight Nutrition

Tag: Inflammation

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