star fruit the amazing health benefits of this nutritious and delicious exotic fruit coming right up hi and welcome back i’m marcy today’s topic is the carambola the delicious star fruit and it is one of the most sought after tropical fruits and here in south florida i’m very lucky to have it on my property it’s so easy to grow with very little care so let’s talk more closely about this exotic fruit and all of its amazing health benefits i’ve grown carambola on my property for two years now
and who knew i didn’t know that it was so nutrient dense i know it had all these antioxidants into anti-inflammatory properties i just grew it i ate it i used it in my salads i made dressings with it and i would just go to the tree pluck a food off and eat it but i know now i’m going to share with you all the amazing health benefits so let’s begin right here urimbola or star fruit is a low calorie fruit very low sugar very soluble dietary fiber magnesium b6 folate iron copper
it’s a great go-to for low carb and low sugar so my little star fruit it’s rich in vitamin a and in vitamin c immune boosting vitamin c it also assists with collagen synthesis of proteins to keep the skin and hair really nice and healthy looking that includes keeping your nails healthy and strong it also scavenges disease-causing free radicals and fights infections all the goodness in this little starfruit is anti-inflammatory and can reduce swelling in joints it’s loaded with magnesium and improves nutrient uptake and bio-viability of minerals and
vitamins it’s loaded with vitamin b6 peroxidine copper along with minerals like sodium and potassium amongst others so let’s recap shall we this little star fruit promotes weight loss boosts digestion contains all that insoluble fiber it’s heart friendly and diabetic friendly with all that insoluble fiber that the star fruit contains it adds bulk to the digestive system and you know keeps things moving it’s a great go-to for low carb and low sugar good for skin and hair don’t be shy about adding them to your smoothie or your salad
all this talk about star fruit is making me hungry let’s go into the kitchen and make up some recipes the first star fruit recipe i’m going to share with you is a dressing and trust me you’ll be using it on so many more things than just a salad you’ll be using it on fish poultry even vegetables and if you made it even thicker a little bit thicker you could probably use it as a tip as well so let’s get this party started using a couple of garlic cloves we’re going to rough cut one large carambola don’t bother with anything smaller than that because
it’s not necessary it’s gonna go in the blender and it’s fine if there are any dark spots around the the carambola you could probably cut those off because it is going to the dressing you’re gonna be noticing that if we’re juicing i’d say no don’t bother i’m going to add a little sea salt and i’m also going to put in some mint oops let’s run away put some mint in here you can use other herbs if you so choose you could use cilantro oregano or basil and not
all together but that would be very tasty as well i’m gonna put in a half a cup of oil you can use olive oil or you can use grapeseed oil i’m using grapeseed oil it’s a mild oil and that’s what i want for this one but you could feel free to use something different if you wanted to there’s that and i’m putting a quarter of a cup of balsamic vinegar it is a white balsamic if you wanted to use white wine vinegar that’s okay too but i love the complexity of a white balsamic i’m just going to do a quarter of a cup or less i’m gonna do a little cracked pepper
now the stock fruit that we grow on this property is very sweet it’s a large and they’re very sweet or on the larger side i should say so if you find that you’re going to the market or something like that or you find that you’ve been given some uh of the smaller ones that have more of a sour taste you could still use them obviously i mean they’re so amazing anyway but you can use them in the recipes but you’re going to want to counteract in your dressing the sourness with
a little bit of honey um to to counteract that sour taste all right i’m going to blend this up oh my gosh wow wow wow that’s all i can say you’re going to love it dude i love this look at this thick rich delicious creamy all the things that you want in dressing but this has infinitesimally more health benefits than just like grabbing a dressing on a store shelf in preparing the starfruit for juicing a lot of times people take that vein out i don’t i leave everything in the only thing i do sometimes is take off the ends like that that’s about it and i juice the entire
star fruit i just put it into little quadrants like this and put it into the juicer oh um goodness is that fantastic the next recipe i want to share with you with the star fruit is star fruit smoothie we’re going to do star fruit with put in eight ounces of water right now eight ounces add a little bit of ice you know i have other recipes for star foods but you know they involve the salads and they don’t need let me see we have a couple tablespoons of chia
if you want a power packed smoothie it involves chia i’m gonna put three tablespoons in now when i get a lot of bananas in my in my yard i also add bananas to this if you wanted even a more power pack you could add some avocado and it really doesn’t change the flavor too much but it does enhance it with all the different healthy benefits of avocado so that’s also a solution for you if you’re looking for a really uh nutrient-based smoothie without a lot of junk in there so i’m going to blend this up and then i can always taste it
to see if it needs a little bit of sweetener i don’t think it’s going to go honey for it i’m adding about two tablespoons of honey you could also add maple syrup even like if you use stevia or something like that i guess you can use that let’s see how this tastes now oh my god that is amazing wow wow that’s amazing absolutely so my friends the longest short of it is you cannot go wrong with star fruit it’s amazing so thank you for coming along with me on this journey we have the star fruit
juiced we have the star fruit smoothie and we have a fabulous dressing i hope you try them thank you so much for joining me stay safe and have a beautiful day