Dried Fruits

When you are on your holiday, you choose hiking in the open air or climbing mountain or having a picnic in the woods, you must take foods and water with you because you are leaving away the cities and going out to get close to the nature, there is not restaurant or KFC in the woods or on the mountain, but you also want to bring some fruits with you, such as strawberry and peach dices, but they are soft and easy to get crush injury, how to deal with this? Suppose it is winter and very cold outside, you are sitting in the room beside the fireplace, the fire is burning up and you suddenly come into a feeling for fruits, you want to have some kiwi or grapes, but you know it is winter, this is not the reason for them, and you are so frustrated.

Let's get back to the real, the good news is that we have dried fruits, dried fruit is fresh fruit get through the process which removes part of its water, it is just the same as fresh fruit except the water content. The abundant vitamin and many beneficial elements contained in fresh fruits are still kept in the dried fruits. In addition to rich vitamin, dried fruit also contains a lot of iron, potassium and other mineral, and dried fruit contains less sugar than the fresh fruit, is not easy to get fat even when you eat lots of dried fruits, and is a kind of very healthy snacks, actually you can pick up some dried fruits such as raisins or figs when you have desire for desserts such as cheese cake. Sprinkle on top of your cereal to add a zing to your breakfast or you can mix it with your favorite yoghurt or use them as baking ingredient.


Except dried fruits, nut is another healthy snack you can usually eat. When you are watching TV in your home or seeing films in the cinema, you can take packs of peanuts or sunflower seeds with you. Nuts contain protein, fat, carbohydrate, also contain vitamin B and E, trace elements (calcium, zinc, iron), dietary fiber, and so on, in addition, there are also unsaturated fatty acid, including linolenic acid, linoleic acid which is the essential fatty acid for human body. Research found that chew intensity play a certain role on the vision, eating nuts can improve eyesight.

The ciliaris has regulating action for lens of the eye, and the adjustment of the lens depends on function of the facial muscle strength, facial muscle strength can be enhanced by the chewing strength. Modern food increasingly soft, when eating it needs little or does not need to chew, the facial muscle strength become weak, eye lens subjects adjustment function is reduced, eyesight also is easy to fall subsequently. So, to improve eyesight, we had better eat more nuts, and insist for a long time to chew food fully.