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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Ugh. Both my parents are being weird about my gender
Weird how?
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They have both said the whole "I still love you" thing but it seems like they're actually just doing everything in their power to avoid having to think about the fact that I'm not their son.My mom had told me that she needed time before she started using my preferred name and pronouns. Not time to acclimate to using them, but time to even start trying. I allowed her this time partially because I live 3 hours away and thus don't see her in person often. I recently asked her if she'd given it any more thought and she's been leaving me on read for 3 days now.
My dad told me we'd chat because he wanted to "get my perspective" or whatever but he's also clearly been avoiding that. I dunno it's like neither of them are really trying at all to understand me.