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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mini-rant about fake allies, passing, lookism, transphobia
something that really annoys me is when cis “allies” say (about an attractive trans person who passes) “just look at her, how can anyone say she’s not a woman!” even if they mean well, like come on. it really shows where their priorities lie, and how shallow they are. I know for a fact that a lot of cis people’s trans acceptance is purely superficial, and they need trans people to be conventionally attractive and gender conforming. of course they always say this about young pretty white women, and it makes me wonder - do they feel the same about a trans person who doesn’t look like Hunter Schafer or Kim Petras?
and of course now I’m seeing comments like this about Vivian Wilson, who had the benefit of getting gender-affirming care as a minor. the ridiculous irony is that a lot of the fake allies who say stuff like that are the same ones who have “concerns” about trans kids getting care. so you need trans people to pass but you don’t think they should have access to things that would help them pass? fuck off!
preaching to the choir here I know
CW: Transphobia
I’ve seen quite a lot of people say that she looks exactly like her dad and other insulting stuff. So even if you’re beautiful as a trans woman (according to societal standards), you will still get shit on by the cis claiming that you look like a man.
spoiler
No, they don’t. Passing and being pretty is the only way to get the vast majority to see you as your real gender.
Also people against trans kids getting Healthcare should die in a hole. Monstrous.