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Pineapple Cilantro Lime Dressing

A crisp fresh and slightly sweet salad dressing with tons of nutrition.
Prep Time5 minutes
Total Time5 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories:

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup fresh pineapple
  • 2 Tablespoons chopped jalapeno
  • 2 Tablespoons chopped cilantro
  • 1/4 of a small avocado
  • 2 Tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 teaspoons Grape seed oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon organic ground cumin
  • 1 Tablespoon minced green onion
  • 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Instructions

  • Put all ingredients in magic bullet or mini food processor. Blend until smooth. If it is too thick for your liking add more pineapple or a little pineapple juice.

Notes

Health Benefits of This Dressing
Lime is an excellent source of natural sodium that helps to break up calcium deposits such as hemorrhoids, arthritis, kidney and gall stones and calcification in your arteries.
Pineapple is full of Vitamin C to boost your immune system, prevent macular degeneration, and help to digest proteins. 1 cup of pineapple meets over 100% of the RDA for Vitamin C
Pineapple also provides 75% of the RDA for manganese, an important mineral for skin and bone health.  Add some Pineapple to your BarleyLife and you increase the antioxidant activity of Super Oxide Dismutase, the powerhouse antioxidant that protects and repairs your cells.  Manganese also provides blood sugar control.
Cilantro (coriander) is great for blood sugar control, digestion, anti-inflammatory and lowering LDL "bad" cholesterol and raising HDL "good cholesterol.  Cilantro has phytonutrients that act as antibacterial, destroying the salmonella bacteria and antibiotic.
Jalapeno Peppers have many health benefits.  Capsaicin, a powerful phytonutrient in all hot peppers is anti-inflammatory, provides pain relief, reduces cholesterol and triglycerides, clears congestion, boost your immune system, help stop the growth of prostate cancer,
These foods are part of many "traditional" diet where bacteria and parasites are common. Consider how common these are in Mexican or Island foods...I find it fascinating that God put these wonderful foods where people who needed them could find them...God's Pharmacy.