Super Easy Breakfast: Baked Grapefruit

Grapefruits have such a bad rap. It certainly tastes bitter. I’ve never heard anyone ever claim grapefruit as their favorite fruit. Nor have I really seen many desserts or dishes that use grapefruit in it. I think besides “grapefruit juice” the only use of grapefruit I’ve ever seen was in ONE restaurant in Los Angeles where they had it in a salad. And to top it off – it has gotten linked to “dieting” and “weightloss”. So probably a lot of negative connotations in most people’s minds.

But today I’m going to try to give some reasons why you should include grapefruit in your everyday healthy diet:

• It’s a great source of Vitamin C which helps support the immune system.
  
• It is low in calories yet rich in the fiber pectin which helps reduce constipation and diarrhea.
• Grapefruit pectin is also indicated to lower cholesterol. Researchers in Israel recently found that red and white grapefruit contain powerful antioxidants that may help reduce the risk of heart disease.
• The red and pink variety of grapefruits are rich in lycopene which appears to have an anti-tumor effect as suggested by the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
• Grapefruit is also a source of Naringenin. Researchers at UCLA and Read More