Basic Nutritional Facts:
• Grapefruit is a low-calorie food
• an excellent source of vitamin C
• a good source of inositol• a member of the vitamin B complex
• It is a common breakfast fruit, salad fruit, or juice fruit.
The grapefruit is known for its sour to semi-sour flavor, It contains grapefruit mercaptan, a sulphur, which in turn contain sterpene, influencing its flavor.
The major bioactive groups in grapefruit include flavonoids, carotenoids, limonoids, furanocoumarins, and organic acids.
White grapefruit has been reported to be slightly richer in flavonoids than pink and red ones. Pink grapefruit is rich in vitamin A, and acts as a natural antioxidant. Grapefruit is an excellent cleanser for the digestive and urinary systems and the peel has many therapeutic properties.
Nutritional characteristics of grapefruit
