Note of Diary

Chicory is a fiber-rich vegetables with high water content and contain antioxidants that can prevent cancer. Because fiber-rich, chicory can be launched defecating and inhibit tumor growth. Chicory is a good choice of food to his diet because of low calorie (25 kcal per 100 grams) and also because they contain many vitamins and minerals (potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, zinc, fostor, boron, nitrates, beta-carotene, vitamin C, E, K, B1, B2, B6, folic acid and nicotinamide).

Chicory grows only in the highlands. This crop is harvested while still in the vegetative stage (not flowering). Part that is harvested a whole part of the body located on the ground surface. Chicory called because it's leaves that tend to pale yellow-white leaves and stems. Chicory can be used to pickle (preserved in liquid sugar and salt), in capcay, or in clear soup. Chicory-flavored distinctive but neutral.

Chicken broth containing amino acids, which are improving immunity, reduce, and prevent cell damage caused by beta amyloid (the substance found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease). The easiest way to get water is to make your own chicken broth, or chicken essence buy supplements that are available on the market. Consumption of chicken broth is recommended in the morning, because if taken at night makes it difficult to sleep. Not because it contains caffeine but because his mind to work so not sleepy.

Benefit of water chicken broth:
1. Keeping our body stamina.
2. Treat people with colds.
3. Can increase a person's memory.
4. Recovery from fatigue caused by mental fatigue load

Chili that has a spicy flavor, it is very beneficial for our body health. A study found that the active ingredients that give a sense of heat in chili or capsaicin is known to function to prevent blockages in blood vessels.

Benefits of Chili:

1. As antibiotic


2. Many contain antioxidants (like vitamin C and beta-carotene), can be used to overcome infertility, an aphrodisiac, and slow the aging process.
3. Spicy taste on the tongue may cause stimulation to the brain to release endorphins (endogenous opiate). The result, the pain disappeared and the feeling healthier.
4. Has a property to reduce the occurrence of blood clots (thrombosis)
5. Lowering cholesterol levels
6. Can heal the wounds caused by knives or cuts exposed
7. Cayenne pepper leaves can lower fever
8. Inside the fruit contained cayenne kapssaisin, kapsantin, carotenoids, alkaloids, essential oils, resins, oils evaporate, and provitamin A and vitamin C which is more than contained in citrus fruits.
9. Capsaicin gives a spicy flavor of chili, nutritious blood flow
10. Adding appetite
11. Chili pepper has the power to the growth inhibition of Candida albicans fungi, ie fungi on the skin surface
12. Normalize the back foot and hand weakness
13. Sense of nasal congestion relief in sinusitis
14. Reduces coughing up phlegm
15. Relieves headaches
16. In the reproductive system, its heat can relieve tension and pain caused by poor blood circulation
17. For rheumatic disorders and frostbite (pain with cold fingers)
18. The leaves can be ground to smeared on diseased area in order to cope with abdominal pain and ulcers.
19. Dissolve mucus in the throat
20. Cure flatulence
21. Speeding up metabolism
22. Vitamin A content of greater than carrots
23. Spicy cuisine can burn calories up to 25%
24. Calcium and phosphorus in fresh chilli fish outperformed
25. Eliminate headaches/li>
26. Provides calcium and phosphorous for the body

Pepino is known by many names such as pepino melon, melumber, melon pear, tree melon, melon shrub, mellowfruit, and melosa. In Indonesia, the pepino fruit is also known by the name of god and Husada purple fruit melody. Pepino name it self is derived from Spanish, which means cucumber pepino dulce sweet that it tastes like a combination of cucumber, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon. Pepino have varying shapes and sizes, some shaped like a teardrop, oval, or long like eggplant. Weighing can reach 1 / 2 kg with a length of ± 15 cm. Typical fruit-flavored, soft-textured, juicy, and edible seeds. Pepino can be made juice, mixed salad, fruit ice, or eaten directly.

There are two types of pepino in Indonesia, namely:

1. Pepino purple, which has purple skin and white spots with dark purple hue lines
2. Pepino white, greenish white or ivory with shades of purple lines that can turn yellowish when ripe.

Pepino fruit benefits:

1. Pepino contain high vitamin C, suitable for treating canker sores, increase endurance, and lower blood pressure. Vitamin C also acts as an antioxidant to slow the aging process, lowers the risk of heart disease, and brain damage. Vitamin C is also needed to produce collagen which is important for growth and repair of damaged tissue. To get the maximum benefit of vitamin C, pepino consumption in the form of fresh food by direct or created juice.

2. Pepino minerals containing potassium, which can help lower blood pressure. Potassium also helps maintain electrolyte body, regulate heart rate, lowers the risk of stroke and heart disease. Pepino consumption is highly recommended for patients with hypertension and heart disease.

3. Pepino is also beneficial for diabetics because it acts to control the rate of sugar in the blood, because the fibers can bind to the carcinogens trigger cancer in the digestive tract.

4. Pepino is believed to prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, indigestion and high blood pressure because the fiber content.

5. Pepino purple, many containing beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a provitamin A, which the body is converted into vitamin A which is very useful in the process of vision, reproduction, and metabolism. Also known as the antioxidant beta-carotene cancer prevention.