Berenuk? maybe you will frown upon hearing the name. Indeed not many know that berenuk is a fruit. Fruit called Latin Crescentia cujete is indeed rarely found in the market or supermarkets that sell fruits in general. Usually trees berenuk grow in gardens, yard, or just as a fence plant only. The taste of the fruit is bitter, so no wonder the fruit is not popular and tends to be ignored because people feel alien to the plant.
Based on its origin, berenuk is a tree-shaped plant from Central America and South America tropical. The leaves are typically arranged, three in pairs. The fruit is large and can be used as a medicine. The shape of the fruit is round with an average diameter of 15 cm and is green. While the tree can grow as high as 10 meters. The trunk is cylindrical and branched.
Although berenuk have a bitter taste, it turns out the plant has many benefits. Almost all parts of plants berenuk (leaves, stems, skin, roots) can be used as medicine. Berenuk contains saponins, and poliferol. The berries and leaves of berenuk contain flavonoids, sapotanins, tannins, polyphenols, vitamins A, C, E, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, carbohydrates, and minerals that include sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and magmesium. Launched from perk.co.id,
berenuk fruit has benefits include:
- Health and Immunity. Polyphenol content has excellent antioxidant properties, protecting the body from the effects of free radicals.
- Heat Reduction. Berenuk fruit that tastes bitter, nutritious as fever (antipyretic) and antirheumatic.
- Hypertension medication. Plant roots Berenuk usual as a traditional medicine for pacifiers heart pounding and also for lowering high blood pressure (hypertension).
- Drug Stomach Disorder. The soaked leaves and fruit berenuk can prevent digestive system and swelling of the stomach.
- Drug Fever. Fruit Berenuk can overcome fever. Fever is a systemic manifestation and is a major symptom of infectious diseases. One of them is infection of ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection).
Interesting!
I've never even heard of that fruit before.. lol
I'll have to try it sometime! :)
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