Another good reason to REMEMBER to eat your oranges

One Major Effect of Eating Oranges, New Study Says

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Sure, eating more fruits and vegetables can do wonders for your health and wellbeing. Yet according to the latest research from the American Academy of Neurology, adding even a small serving of an orange (or green, yellow, or blue) food in your diet each day may help keep your brain young.

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Since previous studies have concluded that flavonoids—a large group of naturally occurring compounds found in plants that act as powerful antioxidant agents—can slow down or prevent mental decline, medical researchers from Harvard University decided to examine the link between long-term dietary flavonoids and brain health.

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The team analyzed the data of 49,493 women (with an average age of 48) and 27,842 men (with an average age of 51) that was compiled over a 20-year period. Throughout the trial, the participants were asked to complete questionnaires about the meals they consumed, along with assessing their own memory skills.

And here's what they discovered: Even after certain health-related factors (such as age and total caloric intake) were taken into consideration, the adults who ate the largest quantities of flavonoid-rich foods—which amounted to an average of 600 milligrams a day—showed a 20% reduced risk of cognitive decline. (For reference, 100 grams or roughly one-half cup of strawberries contain 180 milligrams of flavonoids.)

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Then, the researchers took this information one step further and studied the different flavonoids—two of which stood out. Foods that contain flavones, including oranges (as well as orange vegetables, yellow fruits, and yellow vegetables) were linked with a 38% decreased risk of cognitive impairment—a reduction that equates to being three to four years younger!—while foods with anthocyanins (red, purple, and blue foods, such as cherries and blueberries) cut the risk by 24%.

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Slide 1 of 6: One of the best things about summer is the abundance of fresh, healthy food that's suddenly in season. Among the most delicious—and readily available—types of produce in the summer is the raspberry, which can be found in country gardens, raised beds on apartment terraces, or growing wild in many areas of the U.S. and beyond.It's not just their rampant availability during the summer months that should convince you to add a few of these tasty berries to your regular routine, however. Read on to discover the many beneficial side effects of eating raspberries, according to science. And for some foods you're better off avoiding, check out the 100 Unhealthiest Foods on the Planet.Read the original article on Eat This, Not That!

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SECRET SIDE EFFECTS OF EATING RASPBERRIES, SAYS SCIENCE

One of the best things about summer is the abundance of fresh, healthy food that's suddenly in season. Among the most delicious—and readily available—types of produce in the summer is the raspberry, which can be found in country gardens, raised beds on apartment terraces, or growing wild in many areas of the U.S. and beyond.

It's not just their rampant availability during the summer months that should convince you to add a few of these tasty berries to your regular routine, however. Read on to discover the many beneficial side effects of eating raspberries, according to science. And for some foods you're better off avoiding, check out the 100 Unhealthiest Foods on the Planet.

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Plus, placing a little color on your plate or in your glass can make a big impact since investigators found that adults who consumed an average of at least half a serving per day of these powerful plant foods showed the greatest results. These findings were published in the online issue of the journal Neurology.

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"I'm really not surprised, and I'm happy that there's more research to show that eating a flavonoid-rich diet may help keep our minds sharp as we age," says Amy Gorin, MS, RDN, a plant-based registered dietitian and owner of Plant-Based Eats in Stamford, CT.

If you're trying to incorporate more oranges into your day, consider tossing slices of this citrus fruit into a salad, drinking freshly squeezed orange juice, or making a Blood Orange Beet Smoothie.

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If you're a blueberry lover, Gorin advises opting for the wild kind. "Not only do wild blueberries have two times more health-helping antioxidants than conventional blueberries, but a study published in the European Journal of Nutrition showed that older adults who added wild blueberries to their daily diet for three months made fewer mistakes in memory tests," she explains. Her two favorite ways to eat wild blueberries: "Tossing a scoop into a Greek yogurt parfait and in a batch of pancakes."

Also, there's no time like the present to eat more colorful foods found in nature. "It's never too late to start, because we saw those protective relationships whether people were consuming the flavonoids in their diet 20 years ago, or if they started incorporating them more recently," said study author Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard, in a press release.

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What a year.....

We have not updated this blog for quite some time.  This is not a blog written by an intern or front office personnel, but a blog written by the owners of this company, and it is us who let this get behind. In all fairness this has been the most unpredictable, time consuming and complicated year we have faced, and a blog was literally the last thing on our mind. 

With covid issues affecting every person and work place in the world, we were not spared. The issues we faced as a business were many, from a lack of a consistent workforce due to both covid and government programs paying workers to stay home, to the lack of consistent materials and supplies to keep our farms and packing operations going. Along with these issues, our export business was severly affected due to the lack of containers, ships and port shutdowns around the world.

Although covid is not gone, it is getting better.  We were able to get our employees all vaccinated early on and this was the most help to get us through this past year.  Our supply chain for our farms and packing also rebounded; and although we are still not where we would like to be we see the light at the end of the tunnel. The good news is that we did not lose any employees or family to the covid virus and our hearts and prayers go out to those who did lose friends and family.

We will become more diligent on this blog as we now have a little more time than we have had over these past nine months.  Thank you all for your support.

Mark and Jay

New Study Suggests Oranges Are the Ultimate Weight-loss Food

The study found oranges reverse the symptoms of obesity

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11/09/2020

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The golden-age movie star WC Fields used to fantasise about watering the orange trees in his garden with gin. “Then,” he said, “all I’d have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.” The Citrus sinensis, or the humble orange, is so closely linked to everyday health and well-being – think of all those vitamin tablets given its flavour – that it’d take the kind of sabotage Fields dreamed up to ever give it a bad name.

Somehow, though, we take it for granted. From maca root to rambutan, we all too easily assume that the more exotic a food is, the more potent its health benefits will be. But don’t dismiss the ubiquitous sweet orange as a mere vitamin-C fix, or a retro mid-match refreshment: scientists have discovered that a chemical compound it contains can put the squeeze on body fat and juice up your mood.

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Western Ontario introduced nobiletin –
extracted from oranges – to the diet of morbidly overweight mice. Not only did the flavonoid reverse symptoms of obesity in test mice, but it also reduced the harmful build-up of plaque in their arteries, known as atherosclerosis.maining Time -21

Separate research found that the molecule binds to the proteins responsible for stabilising our circadian rhythm and regulating our metabolism, a process that helped rodents that were given a high-calorie diet over 10 weeks to stay lean, even as members of the control group gained nearly twice their bodyweight. Nobiletin has also been linked to reversals in age-related ailments, such as declines in exercise endurance and poor sleep, which can lead to feelings of anxiety and depression.

So, drop those high-priced superfoods with names you can never quite remember and unpeel a 30p orange – or at least do as Fields and Snoop Dogg did and sip on gin and juice.

Cara Cara (pink navel) Sunkist promo video

Melissa (Gillette) Burchett is a 5th generation grower and Mark's daughter.  Melissa and her brother Greg both work for our packing operations.  They were asked by Sunkist to make a social media piece about cara cara navels.  With Greg behind the camera (Iphone), they were able to put this video together in only a couple of hours.  We think they missed their calling  :)

Hope you are well....

We hope everyone has stayed safe and healthy throughout this pandemic ordeal.  Although it is far from over, normalcy has begun to seem more of a reality.

Here at our ranches and packing operations everything is fine but it has been an interesting time.  All of our employees have stayed safe and continue to work harvesting and packing fruit.  The demand for citrus, and a great source of vitamin C has increased business and our customers have counted on us to keep everyone safe and to keep shipping citrus.

We have had to implement many safety measures, from plexiglass partitions, additional employee lounges, addditional hand washing stations and hand sanitizers to pre screening employees on a daily basis.

Our employees have been the biggest help over the past weeks.  Having to wear face masks and maintaining social distancing in a packing and farming operation is not easy and can only be done with cooperation from all of our employees.

Our oranges, mandarins and lemons cannot wait to be harvested and need to come off our trees in a timely manner. So thank you to our employees and our customers for helping to keep everything running and enabling us to finish up our citrus season. 

We wish everyone well and please keep safe.