Pepino is often referred to as miracle fruit. Although it seems less savory, rich in antioxidants and pepino nutrients that can ward off cancer, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and blood cholesterol levels.
The fruit is a part of the family eggplants (Solanum), known by the name Solanum muricatum Aiton. Pepino forms like eggplant, the difference is the color.Generally pepino has a base color of green with brown stripe pattern grooves that will turn yellowish when ripe fruit. There is also the basic color purple pepino young white speckled with shades of dark purple line, so it is often referred to as eggplant lines. Another name for pepino fruit is fruit melody, flower, god Husada, merong, and sweet chili.
Abroad, the fruit is known as mellowfruit pepino, pepino melon, or treemelon.Pepino fruit has a character similar to melon (Cucumis melo, both in terms of color similarity and rasanya.Walaupun prominent than the difference, they do not come from the same family. Called pepino Therefore treemelon.
JUS MATERIALS OR SALAD
Pepino plants were first grown by local tribes in South America. In Indonesia, pepino fruit was given the nickname "touristy fruit" because it was first introduced in the Dutch colonial period.Pepino fruit consists of the skin, pulp, and seeds, which are edible. The flesh has a distinctive aroma and contains a lot of water.Should choose to consume dark golden, sweet-scented, and fairly loud.
The slightly sweet taste of the fruit, sour and tasteless, each fused to one another produces a distinctive flavor combinations, which is like a cantaloupe and melon fruit flavors.
Besides consumed as fresh fruit, pepino fruit can also be processed as raw material or as a complementary dish salad of meat and vegetable dishes. To make the salad should select a not too matang.Buah cut dice-shaped pieces, then mixed with other fruits or sayuran.Buah can also be processed into juice. In order to feel fresh and sweeter, while juiced usually add honey, milk, or gula.Pepino also can be blended together with other fruits. The more mixed fruit used, the more crowded the resulting juice flavor and the greater usefulness for health.
GROWTH Pepino
Pepino cultivation is generally done vegetatively. This is done because the ability of pepino seed germination is very poor, so it is often not able to grow well, even failed to grow at all.By vegetative means, the shoots with roots candidates are treated special. After sowing, the shoots will grow into complete plants within 2 to 3 weeks. This facilitates the process of vegetative growth of farmers who want to plant.
Pepino is a plant that is sensitive to low temperatures, pests and diseases. This is what triggered the farmers to do the berkala.Daerah vegetative growth that is suitable for growing pepino plateau. In Indonesia, many pepino cultivation done in the area of Dieng, Central Java.Though its cultivation has not been widespread in the country, the price is relatively cheap fruit, namely Rp10-15 thousand per kilogram.
IMPROVE STAMINA
Pepino has remarkable properties. Although the "fruit tourist" is not known and has not been used widely in Indonesia, so a lot of real usefulness. Pepino fruit is believed to cure heartburn, ulcers and constipation.
The fruit is also considered useful for people with diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and kidney stones. Regular consumption of pepino will provide optimal results for the prevention of these diseases.Pepino fruit is also useful to improve stamina. Herbal products from China are made from raw pepino, is currently sold in Indonesia.
VITAMIN AND MINERAL RICH
Fruit is a plant phytochemical compounds, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and natural dietary fiber. Phytochemical compounds (Phy = plant) are naturally occurring chemicals found in plants that give flavor, aroma, color or distinctive plants.
Some phytochemical properties are: anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antithrombotic, boost the immune system, anti-inflammatory, regulate blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, and regulate blood sugar levels.
Pepino fruit is oval shaped with a weight varies, depending on the size of the fruit. This fruit contains many nutrients that are useful for health, especially in the form of minerals and various vitamins.Minerals contained in pepino fruits are iron, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium and phosphorus. Some of these minerals, such as copper, zinc, and manganese also is a mineral antioxidant.
Pepino is rich in vitamin C and vitamin B complex. The content of vitamin C on the Pepino fruit 25 mg per 100 grams of fruit flesh. Vitamin C is useful to prevent thrush and maintain healthy gums.In addition to vitamin E, vitamin C is a natural antioxidant which is useful for attacks against free radicals, the cause of premature aging, and various types of cancer. Vitamin C is needed by the body to boost the immune system, so the body is not susceptible to disease.
Vitamin C is very good for skin and beauty care to prevent premature aging, such as wrinkles on the face. Vitamin C also acts as an antioxidant that can counteract free radicals that enter the body through the foods that are fried or baked.Free radicals are very dangerous because it could potentially lead to blocked arteries.
HIGH FIBER and beta-carotene
Dietary fiber (dietary fiber) pepino fruit is very good, 1-1.5 grams per 100 grams. Fiber is needed to lower cholesterol.In the digestive tract, fiber binds bile acids (end products of cholesterol) and issued with tinja.Semakin higher consumption of fiber, the more bile acids and fatty acids released.
In addition to preventing cholesterol, fiber useful in the digestive system. Fiber is able to shorten transit time, ie the time it takes food from the oral cavity to be issued as a stool.Fiber binds carcinogens (cancer-causing). Thanks to the short transit time, time carcinogens reside in the body is also getting shorter, so the smaller the chance of bodily harm.
Fiber is good for preventing diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, fiber consumption in Indonesia is still very low, at about 10 grams per person per day. Should have 20-30 grams per person per day.
Pepino is known as a source of beta-carotene, 27 mg per 100 grams of fruit flesh. Beta-carotene is a provitamin A in the body is converted into vitamin A, which is useful in the process of vision, reproduction, and metabolism.
Beta-carotene is an antioxidant that plays an important role in reducing the concentration of peroxyl radicals. The ability of beta-carotene works as an antioxidant derived from its ability to stabilize carbon-core radicals. Because beta-carotene is effective at low concentrations of oxygen, can complement the antioxidant properties of vitamin E are effective at high concentrations of oxygen.
This antioxidant also known as the element of cancer prevention, skin and lung cancer in particular. Beta-carotene can reach more parts of the body in a relatively longer time than vitamin A, thus providing optimal protection against cancer.
Sources: kupukupudanpelangi.blogspot.com
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