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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(CW: Suicide mention)
God being unemployable makes me want to fucking kill myself. I can't seem to get another job and even if did I couldn't hold it down for more than a couple of months. Got let go from my last one because I wasn't productive enough but I was really trying my absolute hardest, I really just work noticeably slower than most people. I can't do the work other people can, I can't do the hours other people canI need a lot of money if I'm ever to be happy. FFS is expensive, SRS is expensive, and I don't think I want to live if I can't get those at some point in my life
I just got to really hope I can find somewhere that'll put up with me and scrape enough money together for surgery. But even then It'll be years, maybe decades, till I'm okay with existing in this body
I'm in a similar spot
Can't work while I recover from surgery and my resumé and qualifications are lacking on top of always having Gender quietly being an issue for interviews
"sorry, we're just not sure you're a good fit for us" etc
Good ol' "we're technically not discriminating" professional transphobia