Know The Cempedak Fruit And Its Benefits

Cempedak fruit is a fruit that looks similar to jackfruit, but the taste and the season is different. Cempedak fruit has a sweeter taste than fruit Jackfruit. The trunk has a more fluid sap than the jackfruit stalk.

Cempedak fruit is only fruitful once a year. Cempedak fruit can be processed into various foods, from candied, fried and even can be directly eaten. Cempedak fruit grows a lot in South Sumatra, North Sumatra, Bangka Island and Belitung Island. Here are the benefits of Cempedak fruit:

• Flesh is usually eaten fresh. However, there is also a frying like a banana or process it into a compote by adding coconut milk and sugar. This fruit is delicious when it is cooked.

• Young leaves cempedak also widely used as vegetables. Fruit seeds are good to eat after being processed, fried, or boiled like jackfruit seeds. In Malaysia, its roots are used as a mixture of traditional herbal medicine for women who have just given birth.

• Cempedak helps nourish the eyes, given its vitamin A content is quite high, which is about 200 SI per 100 grams. Vitamin A plays a role in maintaining the cornea of ​​the eye to always be healthy.

• Contains higher vitamin C than jackfruit, and contains dietary fiber (dietry fiber) is high enough to help maintain healthy digestive tract and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood.

• The bark of cempedak also contains components that can help prevent tumors and malaria. And the main compound heteriflavone C which can eliminate the parasite causing malaria to 100 percent.