Benefits of Eating Sapodilla Fruit

Sapodilla fruit is widely known by the public, in addition to having a soft texture, this fruit has a sweet taste. In English is called Sapodilla, chikoo, or sapota. In India, sapodilla is called chikoo, in the Philippines known as tsiko, and in Malaysia, sapodilla is called ciku. Chinese society called the sapodilla fruit as hong Xia ª m. The large sapodilla trees and shade, can grow up to 30-40 m tall. Branched low, rod rough-skinned brown manila blackish gray to dark brown. All the parts containing latex, milky white sap is thick.

In Indonesia sapodilla fruit cultivation is done in areas such as West Sumatra, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and West Nusa Tenggara. In general, sapodilla cultivated as garden plants to be enjoyed fruit. Sapodilla has a shiny black seeds or blackish brown with a flat shape and large. Sapodilla seeds also contains saponins, quercetin, and oil as much as 23%. sapodilla seeds should not be consumed because the seeds contain high hydrocyanic acid and can be toxic in the body.

Benefits of Eating Sapodilla Fruit

There are so many benefits of this brown-colored fruit, among other benefits of eating sapodilla fruit;

Wooden crops of sapodilla are often used by people to be used as household furniture, sculptures, and carvings. From bark of this plant  generated strong cough medicine and drugs, which can help you in maintaining stamina. Moreover leaves of the sapodilla fruit can overcome diarrhea and dysentery.

Sapodilla fruit flesh is sweet and usually kind of sapodilla fruit can be used as a mixture of butter ice cream because it tastes sweet and soft flesh. Beside rich in sugar, sapodilla fruit also contains other nutrients such as minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, and dietary fiber. Sapodilla fruit is also good for heart healthy and blood vessels.

Sapodilla fruit is rich in nutrients which Sapodilla fruit contains 92 kilocalories of energy, 0.5 grams protein, 22.4 grams carbohydrates, 1.1 grams fat, 25 milligrams calcium, 12 milligrams phosphorus, and 1 milligram of iron. Also in the Sapodilla Fruit also contains 60 IU of vitamin A, vitamin B1 0.01 milligrams of vitamin C and 21 milligrams. The results obtained from conducted a study of 100 grams of fruit Sapodilla, the number of which can be eaten as much as 79%.

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