Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables: July shopping

Seasonal shopping in July

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With July, the rainbow of colors that nature offers us is truly at its maximum splendor. This is the month when tomatoes finally let themselves be picked and allow us to enjoy their freshness and their juicy and fragrant flavor.

But it is also the month in which we can dedicate ourselves, perhaps during the pleasant evenings, to a relaxing activity of storing and preserving summer delicacies, to be enjoyed during the gray winter to make us remember the smells but above all the tastes of the garden: aubergines and courgettes. in oil, strawberry jam, cherry or apricot nutritious.

So what does this hot month have in store for us in which we can boast of having not only lightness but also lots of taste on the table?

Index

VEGETABLES

Lettuce

Collecting it from your own garden on the balcony, washing it gently and finally enjoying it is certainly much more than a simple pleasure, perhaps even a welcome first prize.

Fresh and crunchy, the lettuce it is one of the best companions of the summer, in fact if eaten before main meals it gives us that pleasant feeling of satiety. Free of fat and in many varieties (riccia, romana or cappuccina) lettuce is however rich in minerals, phosphorus, iron and vitamins AC.

Cucumbers

To eat raw, i cucumbers not only refresh us, helping us digest maybe at the end of the meal, but if eaten as a snack in the morning or in the afternoon, they nourish us and help us not to lose that hard-won line for the costume fitting. In fact, this vegetable, one of the greenest in the summer garden, is calorie-free (only 13 per 100g) which makes it an excellent ally during diets with its high water content (96%), low in carbohydrates (2 %) but high in mineral salts and vitamin C.

If biting into it, the cucumber crunches then that means it's really good. Read all the benefits of cucumber here and alternative uses beyond salads

Tomatoes

Red and round how can you not keep them ready in the fridge for every occurrence? In salads, seasoned alone with a little olive oil, as a cooked or raw condiment for a real "alpomodoro" pasta, these rich summer fruits are also very precious if used as containers to prepare succulent stuffed tomatoes with couscous or with rice. And what about a fresh one panzanella with basil to be enjoyed on the return of a long and tiring day at the beach? Not to mention the homemade sauce.

Rich in water-soluble vitamins their main ingredient, however, iswater. Free of calories, tomatoes have a good mineral content, therefore they are light remineralizing, thirst-quenching and finally detoxifying.

READ also: Tomatoes: 10 extraordinary beneficial properties

And again in your vegetable basket for this month you could put:

eggplant
zucchini
green beans
chicory
rocket salad
radishes
rhubarb
new potatoes
beets
basil
carrots
celery
peas

FRUIT

Melon

And you know how to choose a good one melosine? The only way to know if the delicious and sweet fruit or a real tasteless pumpkin is hiding under the last hard last is to smell it carefully.

How appetizer or as a dessert can certainly not miss on summer tables! And if you realize that by choosing it you are really wrong, just sweeten it with a little sugar and prepare some excellent jam that will help you face better, thanks to the richness of vitamin C, the long and cold winter.

READ also: Melon: properties, benefits and how to best enjoy it

Plums or Plums

Fruit containing in particular Vitamin A, B and C the pulp of the plum o plum it is famous for its properties or rather for its laxative effect (especially if consumed on an empty stomach or before meals). Plums are very caloric, compared to the rest of the summer fruit, in fact we must not overdo it and avoid binging it. Available dry or in syrup, we certainly prefer them fresh and just picked from the tree.