What are the benefits of Cempedak Fruit (Artocarpus integer) for your healt

 

What are the benefits of Cempedak Fruit (Artocarpus integer) for your healt

Artocarpus integer, commonly known as cempedak, is a species of tree in the family Moraceae, and in the same genus as breadfruit and jackfruit. It is native to southeast Asia, from Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula to the island of New Guinea. Wikipedia

 

the benefits of Cempedak Fruit (Artocarpus integer) for your healt 

Meat Fruit is usually eaten fresh. However, there is also a fry like bananas or process into a compote by adding coconut milk and sugar. The fruit is delicious when ripe.

Cempedak young leaves are also widely used as a vegetable. Fruit seeds delicious eaten after being processed, fried, or boiled like jackfruit seeds. In Malaysia, the roots are used as a mixture of traditional herbal medicine for women who just gave birth.

Cempedak help nourish the eye, given the vitamin A content was quite high, which is about 200 SI per 100 grams. Vitamin A plays a role in keeping the cornea to keep it healthy.

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

Cempedak bark also contains components that can help prevent tumors and malaria. And the main compound heteriflavon C which can eliminate the parasite that causes malaria up to 100 percent.

Skin Cempedak also often consumed by people of Banjar, South Kalimantan, which is known as mandai. Before processing, the local people peel the outer skin so that it looks white, then clean it. After the first skin soaked in salt water for 2-3 days, to become soft and fermented and then fried. Mandai resembles fried banana fritters, even when it feels like biting bitten strokes