Health benefits of oranges and why this fruit is essential.

 Oranges are the nature's gift in winters. It is such a fruit that is incredibly essential to add to our diet in it's season. Oranges are one of the oldest fruit on this planet. Basically originated from China and then planted to other regions of the world this fruits hold long medicinal and nutrition history.

Bright orange color and a tangy smelling fruit with so many benefits in all of its components is just another blessing of mother nature to it's mankind.

Oranges are useful with all of its nutrients, it's peel and even it's seeds. These are very useful for internal issues as well as external issues. The external part of oranges, that is it's peel and the left overs , that is it's seeds, are very useful in cosmetic world and for skin and hair issues in herbal world. Rest of oranges pulp and juice are very important for our internal organs, and internal body systems to operate.

Here in this article we will be elaborating different benefits of oranges, so let's begin..

Nutritional value

Oranges are the biggest source of 

Fibers

vitamin  C

Folate

Water

Proteins

Carbs

Calcium

Potassium

All of these essential elements are found in oranges. I have written an article over the benefits of these nutrients in our body before, link is mentioned below do check it out

https://healthandfashion321.blogspot.com/2022/04/6-most-important-nutrients-for-our-body.html?m=1

Coming back to oranges , these aforementioned nutrients are very helpful for our body's internal systems. 

Excessive amount of fibers and water is what makes this fruit a very important element for our diet.it is important to have oranges in our daily routine. It helps in smooth movement of food in our gut, and keep our intestinal health in good condition.

Here we are now and it's time to see why are the nutrients in these oranges so essential for us.

1) Fiber

Fiber is the most abundantly found element in oranges these fibers are very good for the maintenance of our gut and intestinal obstruction.

In some studies fiber is found really helpful to defeat colon cancer and reduce heart risk by controlling obesity in our body. Fiber helps us to digest food and keeps our stomach, liver, and intestinal bacteria in good health which in return helps in digestion of food we eat and reduce the bad fats deposition in our body.

2) Water

Second most abundantly found element in oranges is water. We all are very well aware of all the benefits of water in our body. Still for beginners in maintaining health we will discuss all the important benefits of water in our body.

Firstly water helps to keep us hydrated. What does hydrate mean in our body? Hydration in our body means that our cells and all the organs are getting enough water to do their working effectively.

Water is like lubricant in our body. Our body is like a machine and machine needs oil to work frictionless and efficiently, in the same way our body also needs a lubricant that can help us work effectively. 

Water not only helps in frictionless working of our body, it also helps to give us glow and fresh skin. It helps in reducing split end hairs, and water also helps in maintaining good health of our private parts of our body. Our body consistently secrete different liquids such as our sweat, skin oils and many hormones through different ways, so water is essential to keep our skin hydrated to avoid any concentrated secretion from our body.

3) Vitamin C

Vitamins are the very vital for our body's internal systems and the healthy working of all the different processes of our body.

Vitamin C is one of the many types of vitamin that is found through oranges and is very essential for many different processes of our body.

Vitamin  C is what gives oranges the name of citrus fruit. This nutrient is highly valuable is supporting and maintaining our immunity system and the repair and sustain collagen in our skin. That means oranges are a good source of skin beautifying elements. 

Citrus fruits are also found helpful in iron absorption and chronic diseases. It is found in some studies that vitamin C is helpful in fighting cancers and Type 2 diabetes.

4) Folate

Oranges are very helpful in maintaining metabolism of our body, and folate is help ful in creating strong placenta and fetus development. So for women with pregnancy oranges are very helpful for the fetus development.

It will also make good blood flow around the body and keep it clean for fetus.

Other nutrients

Along with the aforementioned nutrients there are many other nutritional elements that are found in oranges, they are as follows

Calcium

Potassium

Vitamin B1

Bio active plant compounds

flavonoids  

Carotenoids,

All these nutrients are also vital for many process of our body. These helps in reducing inflammatory actions and antioxidant effects in our body.

Orange juice or whole orange

The main difference between orange juice and whole oranges is that the fiber content reduces because all the pulp is stained out, 

However orange juice can be used in many recipes and salads for flavour and increase in nutrition level of food. 

Whole oranges are a better choice in many cases, only people with heart burns should not use oranges because their condition will only worsen.

Here we summarize all the health benefits that we can gain from eating oranges and adding them to or daily diet.

Healthy immunity system

Improves skin glow

Reduce skin damage

Controls blood sugar level

Improve heart health

Prevents chronic diseases

Reduces the risk of cancer

Maintain healthy gut

Maintain healthy digestive system

Lower cholesterol levels in our blood

Keeps blood pressure in normal range.

All these are health benefits that we get from eating oranges and adding them to our diet.

Now we are going to discuss some herbal uses of oranges 

1) Orange peel is dried in sun and then crushed to make powder, which can then be used with water, rose water, or milk to apply on face.

2) Orange pulp can be directly applied on face for glowing skin, and for fresh looking skin

3) Orange seeds can also be used for scrubbing purpose by drying them in sun and then crushing them to powder and making a paste to be used as natural scrub.

So oranges are not only good for adding to diet but good for external uses too.