Survive the Late Night Nibbles!

You've been good all day, have eaten sparingly and healthily, then in the evening you crack you want to eat naughty sweet things! One trick is to have lots of healthy nibbles prepared carrots, fruit, a bowl of olives. Still want sweet stuff? then try canned fruit say fruit cocktail but throw away the juice. Nothing working? well at least try to eat quality chocolate that is in reasonable quantities actually good for you!

Please post as a comment your techniques for avoiding the LNN (Late-Night-Nibbles)

Aloe Vera Gel Helps Preserve Fruit?

An interesting application has been developed by Spanish researchers, who are using Aloe Vera as an edible coating and preservative for fruits and vegetables. In the study, researchers dipped a group of common table grapes into Aloe Vera gel and stored them for five weeks at low temperature, while exposing a group of untreated table grapes to the same conditions.

The untreated grapes appeared to deteriorate rapidly within about seven days, whereas the gel-coated grapes were well-preserved for up to 35 days under the same experimental conditions. Specifically, the gel-treated grapes were firmer, had less weight loss and less color change than the untreated grapes. The quality of both the untreated and the gel-treated grapes was evaluated by a sensory panel, which found the gel-treated grapes were generally superior in taste.