If you’re looking for a healthy snack but don’t want to have the same thing all the time, there are many different ways you can enjoy the benefits of a Texas navel orange. There is no reason you need to eat fruit the same way all the time; the benefits of a navel orange are there whether you eat the fruit or drink the juice. There are many different ways you can consume navel oranges even within the scope of eating the fruit or drinking the juice; you are not limited to one or two choices.

While making orange juice from a navel orange is certainly a good way to use the juice, if you are one of those people who enjoys making fruit salad, especially the tropical variety, you can use the navel orange juice in your salad instead of just mixing the juice from the other fruits you use in your salad or fruit combination. While either way provides a healthy fruit mixture provided you choose fresh fruit and not the varieties that have additional sugar, choosing the navel orange juice will give you the sweet flavor you seek without the additional sugar you may need with some other fruit varieties, especially if you add grapefruit juice to your fruit.

When you add some navel orange juice or peel to your baking you will create a different taste that your family and friends will enjoy. At the same time you will derive some of the benefits of the navel orange at the same time. How much you add depends on whether you are looking to just add a little zest to the recipe or actually want to capture the taste of the navel orange in the recipe. Of course if you are creating a main dish—such as a meat or meat and vegetable casserole—you will want to limit how much navel orange juice you add to the recipe.

You can make many drinks and desserts from the meat and juice of a Texas navel orange. You can find recipes in books or you can create your own by simply substituting a navel orange for another fruit. No recipe is so “perfect” that you don’t want to go beyond the scope of the ingredients that are already “required” in a recipe. How else are new recipes developed except to take another recipe and change some of the ingredients? Experimenting is the best part of the cooking and food preparation process.

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