PEACH

The peach is a velvety-soft skin and sweet flesh fruit. It is remarkable due to its high fiber and rich water volume, perfect for a healthy intestinal transit.

With an intake of 41 calories for every 100 gr. of peach, we can say that we are talking about a hypocaloric fruit. This is thanks to its low sugar level, becoming a vastly beneficial fruit.

All these quialities turns the peach into a highly diuretic fruit. It is recommended in diets designed to fight, for example, high blood pressure. Besides, it is a really comfortable fruit to be consumed, both in peach juice or peach puree, as an example.

ITS FIBRE HELPS TO REDUCE CHOLESTEROL

The peach is rich in carotenes and a yellow pigment called lutein. Both of them are fundamental to protect the sight. Precisely, the lutein is very useful to protect our view from the sun.

Among other benefits, the peach offers numerous allies to fight agains degenerative diseases. By this way, we can find selenium and zinc minerals as antioxidants and a great variety of vitamins.

Because of its look, the peach is similar, either by colour or texture, to other fruit as the persimmon or the apricot. It even shares certain nutrients as the carotenes.

At Valencia Orange we have the varieties of peach freestone, clingstone and white peach. The peach is an ideal fruit to be consumed in juice, concentrates or purees.