Pink
Pink grapefruit is typically pale to light yellow with a pink blush. It gets its pinkish pigment from lycopene, a powerful cancer-fighting phytonutrient, and beta-carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in your body. This tasty citrus fruit is developed to have a balance of sweetness and tartness. The flesh of this exceptionally juicy fruit is pulpy and tender and it can range in color from chamois to variations of pink, although the juice is colorless. It’s taste is sweeter than the white grapefruit. Many commercially propagated varieties are seedless. Varieties include Foster, Henderson, Marsh Pink, Ray Ruby, Redblush and Shambar.
Benefits include: The bioflavonoids found in grapefruit was discovered to even halt cancer cells from spreading in breast cancer patients, by ridding the body of excess estrogen.
Ruby
Ruby, or red grapefruit, has deep reddish flesh and juice. Like the pink grapefruit, its rich color is due to high levels of lycopene and beta-carotene. It’s often smaller than the pink and white varieties. Like the pink grapefruit, ruby has a sweeter flavor than the white grapefruit due to greater balance between sugar level and acidity. Varieties include Rio Red, Flame and Star Ruby.
Benefits include: A diabetic can safely eat a grapefruit. In fact, more consumption of this fruit will help reduce the starches and sweets in the system. If you have a tendency towards diabetes, consume more grapefruit juice to prevent it.
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