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What Is Mangosteen Fruit
The Purple Mangosteen scientific name
Garcinia mangostana from family species Guttiferae. It’s native to East
Asian. It’s called “ Queen of Fruits ” in asian region such as Malaysia
and Thailand and name “Food for God” in French..
Though durian is delicious and eat a lot of durian increasing of body
heat, Malaysian believes that durian is a “ healthy ” fruit. Localism
used to drink a salt water or eat mangosteens cooling fruit.The most
outer layer of a Mangosteen fruit known as rind or rind and colour
is light green when it is young and will eventually turn to reddish or
dark purple when it is ripe.. The Aril of the Mangosteen fruit is the
layer that covers the seed into it and it taste can be described as
sweet and salty with peach flavor and texture.
The fruit such as a softball size which externally diameter 3~7cm. When
mangosteen was ripe, it’s normally opened by holds the exocarp in both
hands, and pressed with the thumb gently along the score until the rind
cracks then you can taste 4 to 8 segments of snow-white, juicy, soft
flesh fruit. Mangosteen exocarp thick from 6-10 mm with contains bitter
yellow latex and staining juice. How to select best mangosteen?To
select the best fruit, choose those with the highest number of stigma
lobes at the apex, as its have more of fleshy segments but with fewest
seeds.
Varieties of Mangosteen Tree
Only one different variation is known and that is in the Sulu Islands
where the fruit diameter is bigger then 7cm and the thicker exocarp,
flesh more acid and the flavor more distinct. such as the Button
Mangosteen or the Lemondrop Mangosteen .
How the Mangosteen Tree Look ?
The mangosteen is tropical fruit and it plant at latitude country. It
cannot tolerate temperatures below 4.44º C nor above 37.78º C. The tree
takes about 7 to 10 years to grow up before its produce any mangosteen
fruit.
The mangosteen tree can reach a height of 7 meters until 30 meters. The
wood is very dark in colour and flaking with evergreen leaves .The
flowers are about 5 cm long with contain four leaves. The mature
Mangosteen fruit able to reach a size of 7 cm. The trees require rich
soil with good drainage. In Malaysia it’s planted at below 1,500 ft
,450 m from sea level.
In Malaysia, it’s grew huge at Johor, Kelantan dan Perak. The season
product mangosteen is from June until August
Mangosteen Fruit Product/Recipes
Mangosteen has many valuable nutrient and you will receive essential
nutrients for your body. You should definitely include this fascinating
fruit into your dietary habit because it worth the effort. Mangosteen
had process to several product such as:
i.)
Mangosteen Juice
that good for health such as
microbiological balance support, immune system maintenance, joint
flexibility, positive mental support, reduce the bad cholesterol level,
increased levels of good antioxidants,
ii.)
Mangosteen rambutan mixed juice
iii.)
Mangosteen soap and
iv.)
Mangosteen margarita
Why Mangosteen Fruit Benefits to Body?
The Mangosteen fruit provide multiple nutrients and each nutrient
enrich or recover below diseases:
i.) Good health of gastrointestinal maintenance by mangosteen fruit as
its fiber.
ii.) Boiled of its fruit rind used to lighten diarrhea, gonorrhea and
gleets and is applied externally biting lotion.
iii.) Dried rind in powdered form used to lighten disease dysentery
.Extracted Oil from rind use to cure eczema as well.
iv.) an combination of the leaves with unripe banana, benzoic is
applied to the injury of circumcision.
The table of Mangosteen fruit nutrition as below:
Nutritional value per 100 g
Energy 34.0 Kcal
Water 87.60%
Fat 0.6 gm
Carbohydrate 1.0 gm
Fiber 5.6 gm
Abu 5.1 gm
Calcium 0.1 gm
Magnesium 7.0 mg
Phosphorus 13.0 mg
Iron 13.0 mg
Sodium 0.6 mg
Vit B1 45.0 mg
Vit B2 0.03 mg
Ascorbic 0.03 mg
Acid 0.2 mg
Vit C 4.2 mg
Related link:
Mangosteen Juice;
Benefits of Mangosteen Fruit
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