Warning: Grapefruit can interact with drugs, such as decreasing the effectiveness of estradiol, making Oxycodone last longer, increasing blood levels when on Viagra, and much more.
Grapefruit inhibits multiple enzymes in the small intestine, most notably CYP3A4. CYP3A4 is involved in the breaking down of a lot of drugs, so when it's inhibited Oxycodone becomes inactive slower, and estradiol won't break down all the way into estrogen. Drugs that are affected by grapefruit will often have warnings on their packaging
Personally, I like putting just a little bit of salt on my grapefruit, to counteract the bitter flavor. Dumping sugar on it doesn't help. Grapefruits are about half as sour as lemons, since they have half the citric acid content.
Grapefruits were accidentally created as a cross between the sweet orange and the pomelo, in Barbados. Those fruits originate from Asia, but were brought to the Caribbean in the 17th century. Since it's parent fruits are native to Asia, it grows well in Asia too.
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(China and Vietnam) are the two largest producers of Grapefruits, producing collectively 6.3 million tons out of the 9.8 million tons of worldwide production.
The painting was made by Robert Papp, who has a website here: https://robertpapp.com/. I don't really know anything about the guy.
The lemon things with all of the recipes was really cool, but to be honest I just like grapefruit raw, cut in half and ate with a spoon.
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cars are dangerous and I almost got seriously injured
I was crossing a crosswalk and someone accelerated from a full stop right into me and threw me into a busy road. I'm not hurt (don't even have any scratches) but it was so scary.Not even the first time I've had a scary run in with a car. One time I was walking through my neighborhood and a guy in a sports car zipped around a corner and was inches way from hitting me very fast. Like he was speeding speeding.
God I hate cars.
Yikes! So glad you're okay
Omg I'm glad you're okay. Fuck cars
I am glad you're okay. That's incredibly scary.
fuck cars and fuck the carbrained wannabe murderers that they produce
I still don't have a driver's license because I'm so terrified that I'll hurt someone by accident. Like all it takes is one fuck up at the wrong time and it could be over for someone. I just walk and bike everywhere (though my bike was stolen and I haven't gotten a new one cause money so I walk everywhere now) but that's also just super dangerous to my own existence.
That sounds awful, I'm so glad you're okay
A while ago in the city I used to live in, they installed new LRT that was street level and didn't have any crossing arms or bollards (crossing arms they probably shouldve had but they had some traffic engineer/city planner reason I cant remember to not include arms). For the year going up to it they tried to train people on the new traffic pattern - for example, no more right turns on red at this intersection because the LRT would pass on red. But for the next year following, every couple months there was a new collision as drivers would do stupid shit and get hit by the train. Now, normally, they'd just have a near miss or actually hit a person and the city wouldn't take notice. But once their precious cars and themselves start to feel consequences, oh, THEN they started demanding changes and safer intersections ๐