Hello Steemians how are you all doing, i will be discussing with you this morning the healthy benefit of african star apple, popular known as Agbalumo in Nigeria. on my last series on shunguystin local kitchen, i talked on how to make zobo drink, its benefit and side effect
The fruit am about to discuss with you now is not one of the Asian Fruits and Its Health Benefits](https://drhealthbenefits.com/food-bevarages/fruits/lists-of-asian-fruits-and-its-health-benefits). I you the health benefits of African star apple. This is one of the African Fruits and The Health Benefits. African star apple is gehynerally known in Africa but widely consumed in Nigeria.
This apple is very fertile in the Republic of Benin, Ghana and Togo. African star apple is generally known as Agbalumo (Yoruba language) or and the igbo called it (Air). This fruit grows from December to April, the botanical name is Chrysophyllum albidum. Agbalumo is called africa star apple because of it star like seed and it has close to 4 or 6 seeds in it.
Interesting fact about this fruit
The interesting fact about this fruit is that people love taking it before falling of the on the ground. It has an acidic taste when they eat that. When the African star apple falls to the ground it means that it is ripe already with a dark orange color and will have a very sweet taste. So it depends on the one you prefer ; Acid or Sweet.
African Star Apple Nutrients
African star apple has nutrients :
Nutrient Content per 100g of african star apple
Carbohydrate 10.49 g
Fat 2.49 g
Methionine 0.002 g
Vitamin B2 0.038 mg
Energy 91.09 Kcal
Moisture 73 g
Vitamin B1 0.049 mg
Vitamin C 25
Protein 6.99 g
Protein 1.52 g
Phosphorus 18.95 mg
Vitamin B3 1.137 mg
Tryptophan 0.004 g
Total dietary fiber 1.92 g
Iron 0.49
Lysine 0.022 g
African star apple content are tannis, resin, 119 calories, proteins, 683mg potassium, carbohyddrates,terpenoids,10g of total crabs, flavonoids.
Healthy Benefits African Star Apple
- Preventing and curing heart disease
- High water content
- Contains compounds that are important for the body
- Low calories
- Natural Anti-oxidant
- Good during pregancy
- The useful of the fruit
- Useful for herbal meddcine
- High content of vitamin C
Cautions of African Star Apple
African star apple will cause stomach chills if you consume it too much. See the doctor and ask from prescription on how many you can consume daily fr those who are suffering from heart disease.
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African Star Apple Fruit combining with Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients :
• 50ml of soda water
• 4 table spoon honey
• Ice
• 400g of African star apples
• 60ml of cognag hennessy
• 2 table spoon brown sugar
• A little pinch of salt
How to make
- Peel and slice the African star apple into half, remove all the seeds and discard them.
- Get the whitish sap-like stuff around the seed while removing the flesh and put them in a bowl.
- Add honey, salt and sugar, mix it very well and cover it with a clean cling and keep it in the refrigerator for 48hrs.
- At the end of this process, pour the liquid into a clean glass. Add water, ice and serve it.
Nigerian Agbalumo Drink Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 African star apple
- Half cup of white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Pinch of saffron – 10 to 15 strands
- Seeds of 6 green cardamom pods, crushed
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in a bowl
- Add water into it
- Let it heat for about 12-15 minutes
- Remove it from it and let it cool
- Add ice and serve it.
Thanks for taking your time to go through my post, i really appreciate
This is a great article - informative and educative as well.
However, I would like to correct a wrong notion being that every African person, object or practice has to have an English name.
There's no such thing as an African Star Apple.
It is simply "Udara" OR "Agbalumo".
Furthermore, "Udara" is not in the family of Apple fruits, therefore, it cannot be called an "Apple".
I understand that Nigerians gave it such English name due to the shape of the seeds... That's smart, but corny.
But instead of being the ones to name our "things" in another man's language, we should allow them to name it themselves, or assimilate our own words for such things, just as they did with words like "Agbada" - Oxford dictionary tags it as "West African English" - that's fine by me.
So please, let's stick what it is and not suck up to the English people.
Once again, I love your article.... It's beautiful!
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate, I love your point.
You can't say it wrong because you want them to adopt the name it is been called here in Nigeria.
African star Apple is the general English name it is called but here in Nigeria we call it different name, the Yoruba name is AGBALUMO, Igbos call it UDARA and the Hausa's call it CIWOH....
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