Okay. So you have invited your friends to your home. There are delicious foodies stacked inside your refrigerator. The weather outside is sweltering hot, and you want to put your culinary skills to display.
Fruit squash! Your mind says. You are all set and pull out a few oranges from the refrigerator. Place them on the counter and are about to rip them off and shove them into the juicer.
This is where things turn a bit shaky.
How much ever you try, the orange doesn’t get peeled properly. It’s awkward and your friends are laughing at you.
Scary, right? I know.
But what else can you do? This is how you have been ‘trying’ to peel oranges since childhood. How can anyone do it differently?
Then yes. This is how!
How to peel an orange with a knife? Slice the top and the bottom of the orange with a kitchen knife. Make sure you don’t dig the knife too much into the fruit. You can also peel of the mentioned parts with your hand.
Hold the orange in such a way that the sliced/peeled parts are vertically opposite to each other. Now use the kitchen knife to vertically cut the fruit at the centre. Dig the knife only till the inner centre of the fruit, and not till the bottom.
Now hold the two loose ends of the fruit with both your hands and gently draw them apart. And yes! You have before you a horizontal array of individual orange slices, ready to be plucked and thrust into the juicer for a mind-chilling fruit squash in a hot afternoon!
Damn simple, isn’t it? I bet your friends are by now flabbergasted with your culinary expertise topped with style!
Alright. Now you are a master orange peeler who knows how to peel an orange like a boss. No doubt about that. But is that enough? Shouldn’t the master know the ins and outs of what he is peeling?
So here you go! 5 health benefits of oranges that can actually make you wonder why you were searching for the fountain of youth outside, when you have them stacked ready inside your refrigerator!
Oranges contain anti-oxidants which help remove free radicals from the body. They also have anti-inflammatory properties and are major players in boosting the immune system.
All these qualities of oranges help clear the signs of aging like scars, wrinkles etc., by providing you with that gorgeous skin you had always dreamt of.
Oranges contain a large percentage of vitamin A, which is the most essential element required for eye health. Vitamin A helps in keeping your mucous membrane and skin of the eye at optimum health conditions.
Oranges are high in mineral content which helps in controlling the heartbeat and keeping it stable. Minerals like potassium and calcium control the sodium action on the body thereby maintaining blood pressure. The fiber present in oranges is fat and cholesterol free, which is one prime reason why oranges are one of the best to your heart.
Again, the large amount of fiber and negligible amount of fat is what makes oranges the ideal food for weight loss. The presence of other vitamins like magnesium and copper is what makes oranges one of the most nutritious of fruits!
Large amount of vitamins and other antioxidants like alpha and beta carotenes play a big role in protecting the body from cancer.
I don’t know how effectively an apple a day can keep the doctor away, but I can tell you that an orange a day keeps bad health at bay!
Hope now you know how to peel an orange fast! So the next time your friends come home, don’t just entertain them with your ‘cutting-edge’ style, but also educate them with these amazing benefits of this wonder fruit!