Teens and adult women need 18 milligrams of iron daily. Eating iron rich foods can help prevent anemia. Two of every three adults living in poverty in the United States are women.
The Gossip on Star Fruit Botanical name: Averrhoa carambola. The five-angled star fruit, also known as carambola, is a waxy, yellow-green fruit that originated in the sultry, tropical area of Sri Lanka. The fruit grows on a small, bushy evergreen tree, first bearing clusters of small lilac, bell-shaped flowers which become the oblong fruits.
Saffron, zaffran or Kesar, as it is variedly known is actually the stigma of the saffron crocus flower. It is a member of the Iridaceae family of plants. The presence of the substance called picrocrocin and safranal lends to Kesar its characteristic smell and flavor.he Kesar plant grows upto a height of about 40cm during the summers, but the flowers begin to bloom and produce their stigmas only in the autumn. The flowers are beautifully colored in rich purple. It is not the flower but the three tongued stigma of about 30 mm in height that provides us with the rich spice of Kesar.