The Fruit Litchi & Stress

Fruit litchi is one type of fruit that a lot of rage. The fruit is also often a treat for the guests during a visit to local officials. Sweet taste with a thick flesh makes this fruit is very good as the body's energy source. Benefits of litchi fruit is also very much. To meet the high consumer demand, seasonal fruit is often made in the form of canned food or made into syrup. Litchi plants that can grow well only in areas of high and rather cold is also known to many benefits, from the roots, wood, until leaves. Society of China famous for its treatment has long herbal use the plant as a medicine.

Litchi fruit is an antioxidant fruit. Nutrients contained in fruit is protein, carbohydrate, crude fiber, vitamin C and minerals (calcium, phosphorus and iron). In addition, fruit litchi also contains polyphenols compounds, namely corilagin, gallic acid and ellagic acid. These three compounds contain antioxidants. Such compounds have the ability to ward off free radicals that can reduce oxidation in the body.

Benefits of litchi fruit more derived from the seeds and fruits than meat. Litchi seeds can be used as a skin bleaching, because it contains substances that can inhibit the activity of the enzyme tyrosinase. This enzyme has a function to change the melamine or skin pigment. Fle brown on the skin caused by the activity of the enzyme tyrosinase. If the action of the enzyme is high, then the brown spots on the skin will be more and more.

With nutritional content, the benefits of litchi fruit to increase stamina and endurance, increase appetite, aid digestion, intestinal worms overcome disease, cure of hernia, leucorrhoea, strengthen spleen, promote and launch the red blood cells. The fruit is also very good to maintain eye health, intestinal health and helps absorption of nutrients by the body.

In addition to fruit, other parts of the tree litchi can also be used as a medicine. The leaves are useful to cure sore and cope with high fever, whereas the roots of litchi trees are useful in blood flow and launched a piss.

While the litchi seed is black round the world are also useful in treatment and is often used to stop bleeding and pain relievers. The content of saponin in the seeds of litchi fruit was also useful in the manufacture of shampoo.

The content of minerals and phytochemicals in fruits litchi also useful as a sedative and maintaining heart health. The Chinese healers used the fruit litchi in helping patients cope with nervous tension, palpitations, and cardiac abnormalities.

In a number of studies have also found benefits of litchi fruit in helping to overcome anxiety, insomnia, impaired concentration, as well as to relax the nerves. Because it is also very good fruit litchi consumed by the women's career, executive, and a hard worker who often suffer from stress and tension.

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DURIAN

In the durian season, this fruit can be produced in abundance, especially in centers of production in the region. Traditionally, fruit flesh is usually exaggerated preserved by cooking with sugar into dodol durian (commonly called Lempok), or make tempoyak. Furthermore, tempoyak a sour taste can be used as food ingredients such as chili tempoyak, or to a mixture of cooking fish.

Durian is often processed into a mixture of traditional cakes, such as gelamai or dodol. Sometimes, durian sticky rice mixed in a dish of rice (sticky rice) along with coconut milk. In today's world, durian (or smell) are commonly mixed in candy, ice cream, milk, and various other types of beverages.

Durian especially those maintained for its fruit, which is generally eaten (arilus or coated seeds) in a fresh condition. Coated seeds are generally sweet and very nutritious because they contain lots of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and minerals.

Seeds can be eaten as a snack after boiled or baked, or mixed in durian compote. Raw durian seeds are poisonous and can not be eaten because it contains fatty acids siklopropena (cyclopropene). Durian seeds contain about 27% amylose.

Some parts of the plant is sometimes used as ingredients of traditional medicine. Roots used as a drug fever. The leaves, mixed with jeringau (Acorus Calamus), used to cure cantengan (infection of the nails). Men to treat skin rash on the skin (scab) and constipation (constipation). Rind is also used to be burned and the ashes used in potions to launch abort menstrual and womb. Ash ash and water immersion is also used as a mixture of traditional dyes.

Some communities in Java using durian skin that has been eaten as a repellent (Repellent) mosquitoes by putting them in a corner. Gubalnya wood paneling and white colored reddish. Lightweight, but not very durable and easily attacked by termites. Usually used as furniture, packing crates, and light construction materials under the roof, provided no contact with the ground. Each 100 g of coated seeds contain 67 g of water, 28.3 g carbohydrate, 2.5 g fat, 2.5 g protein, 1.4 g fiber; and has a value of 520 kJ of energy. Durian also contains vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C, and potassium, calcium and phosphorus.

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The Pepino Fruit

Pepino is known by many names such as pepino melon, melumber, melon pear, tree melon, melon shrub, mellowfruit, and melosa. In Indonesia, the pepino fruit is also known by the name of god and Husada purple fruit melody. Pepino name it self is derived from Spanish, which means cucumber pepino dulce sweet that it tastes like a combination of cucumber, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon. Pepino have varying shapes and sizes, some shaped like a teardrop, oval, or long like eggplant. Weighing can reach 1 / 2 kg with a length of ± 15 cm. Typical fruit-flavored, soft-textured, juicy, and edible seeds. Pepino can be made juice, mixed salad, fruit ice, or eaten directly.

There are two types of pepino in Indonesia, namely:

1. Pepino purple, which has purple skin and white spots with dark purple hue lines
2. Pepino white, greenish white or ivory with shades of purple lines that can turn yellowish when ripe.

Pepino fruit benefits:

1. Pepino contain high vitamin C, suitable for treating canker sores, increase endurance, and lower blood pressure. Vitamin C also acts as an antioxidant to slow the aging process, lowers the risk of heart disease, and brain damage. Vitamin C is also needed to produce collagen which is important for growth and repair of damaged tissue. To get the maximum benefit of vitamin C, pepino consumption in the form of fresh food by direct or created juice.

2. Pepino minerals containing potassium, which can help lower blood pressure. Potassium also helps maintain electrolyte body, regulate heart rate, lowers the risk of stroke and heart disease. Pepino consumption is highly recommended for patients with hypertension and heart disease.

3. Pepino is also beneficial for diabetics because it acts to control the rate of sugar in the blood, because the fibers can bind to the carcinogens trigger cancer in the digestive tract.

4. Pepino is believed to prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, indigestion and high blood pressure because the fiber content.

5. Pepino purple, many containing beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a provitamin A, which the body is converted into vitamin A which is very useful in the process of vision, reproduction, and metabolism. Also known as the antioxidant beta-carotene cancer prevention.

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Rambutan Fruit

Rambutan fruit contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, phosphorus, iron, calcium, and vitamin C. The content of tannins and saponins found in the skin of the fruit and leaves. While the seeds contain fat and polyphenols. Oval fruit shape, with recurved thorns. Green colored rind and a yellow or red if the fruit is ripe. ellipse-shaped seed, wrapped in transparent white flesh, many containing water and can be eaten. Any fruit flavor varies from sweet to sour. rambutan fruit suitable consumed by people who are dieting or maintain weight.

Rambutan fruit is useful for

1. Strengthen muscles
2. Upset stomach
3. Deworming medicine.

Roots to cure fever, bark for sore tongue, leaves for a headache remedy. Rambutan fruits contain iron, potassium, vitamin C. every 100 grams (about three rambutan fruit contains 69 calories, 18.1 grams of carbohydrates, and 58 mg vitamin). Rambutan fiber content is also quite high, about 2 grams per 100 grams of fruit weight.

Rambutan seed is not toxic and contains carbohydrates, fats, proteins, which can meet the nutritional needs of the body. Rambutan seed polyphenols also quite high in fat. Composition of chemical substances in the seeds are mature rambutan properties hypoglycemic (lowering blood sugar levels) so that the seeds of rambutan is widely used for alternative medicine to normalize blood sugar levels diabetic (diabetes mellitus are likely to be high). The trick is to take that garbage five rambutan fruit is ripe, separate the seeds. Rambutan seed Cut into small pieces, then toasted until blackish yellow. Finely milled to a powder. Enter all the powder into a cup, pour boiling hot water. After chilling, drinking the clear water as well as dispose of pulp or sediment. Do it before eating as much as 1-3 times a day, depending on how high the sugar level when performing this therapy. Consumption every day if necessary.

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