Navel Oranges are Low Calorie Sweets You’ll Love

After the winter holidays are over many people are left with a few extra pounds and an intense craving for sweets. Navel oranges can help you lose weight and get over those sugar cravings too. Citrus fruits which are naturally sweet like oranges and tangerines are the perfect way to get over the addiction to refined sugar that usually follows the holidays. When you eat cookies, cakes, and sweetened holiday drinks that all contain processed and refined sugar, or artificial sweeteners, your body becomes addicted to those substances, which is why you crave them so badly after you stop eating them. And if you give in to those cravings you will find yourself packing on the pounds, because your body can’t process refined sugar and artificial sweeteners very well. Most of the sugar that you eat will be stored in the body as fat because your body doesn’t know what to do with it. It doesn’t get burned for energy.

But when you eat navel oranges and other sweet citrus fruits like tangerines you body knows exactly what to do with that sugar, because the sugar navel oranges is sucrose which is totally natural. Your body can easily break that down and use it for fuel, so it never gets stored as fat. Navel oranges also have only about 80 calories per fruit, which means that your body burns more calories to digest and break down the fruit then the fruit has. So eating navel oranges will actually help you lose weight. Navel oranges and other citrus fruits are packed with healthy fiber, which will make your feel full. So when you eat a low calorie orange you won’t want to eat again for a long time. Adding navel oranges to your diet will help you eat less and eat fewer calories without sacrificing the nutrients that your body needs to be healthy so you will lose weight quickly but in a healthy way. So this winter after the holidays are gone and you’re feeling sluggish and craving sweets stock up on navel oranges and start eating them everyday. Your sugar cravings will disappear and you won’t feel deprived. Once you start to see the pounds drop off you’ll be even more motivated to keep eating healthy and get back to a healthy weight. Navel oranges are the perfect way to get healthy after the holidays.

Taste the Sunshine with Hale Groves

At Hale Groves, we believe the best gifts come from the land, not a factory. For generations, our fruit has been grown slowly under the Florida sun, picked at its peak, and delivered fresh to your door. From sweet Navel Oranges to rare Honeybells, every gift shares the simple joy of real flavor—perfect for holidays, milestones, or everyday moments worth celebrating.

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