Benefits of Fruit Pepino

Pepino (Solanum muricatum Aiton), is a fruit that is still a family with eggplant family. This fruit comes from the Andes region of Peru and Chile (South America). In pepino fruits contain lots of vitamin C, but it also contains minerals, simple sugar and pottasium. In addition to health benefits of pepino fruit, the fruit is also very fresh taste (not too sweet or sour). Pepino fruit shape like a cucumber, with skin texture such as eggplant, but the content or the flesh soft and contain a high water content.

In America, pepino was selected as one super fruit along with other exotic fruits for antioxidant strength and health benefits. In China, this plant several times examined and shown to have no toxic effects to the body. In fact, now being developed seriously as a raw material and reliever medication canker sores constipation problems.

Some of the benefits of pepino fruit is as follows:
1. Improve Stamina
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.

2. Rich in Vitamins and Minerals
Fruit is a plant phytochemical compounds, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and natural food fiber. Phytochemical compounds are natural chemicals found in plants that give flavor, aroma, or color of a typical plant. Some properties of phytochemical compounds are: anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antithrombotic, boost the immune system, anti-inflammatory, regulates blood pressure, lower cholesterol and regulate blood sugar levels.

Pepino fruit is oval shaped with the weight varies, depending on the size of the fruit. This fruit contains a variety of useful nutrients for health, especially in the form of various minerals and vitamins. The minerals contained in pepino fruits are iron, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium and phosphorus. Some minerals such as copper, zinc, and manganese is also an antioxidant mineral.

Pepino is rich in vitamin C and vitamin B complex. The content of vitamin C in fruit pepino 25 mg per 100 grams of meat. Vitamin C is useful to prevent thrush and maintain healthy gums. In addition to vitamin E, vitamin C is a natural antioxidant useful against free radical attack, the cause of premature aging, and various types of cancer. Vitamin C is needed to enhance the body's immune system, so that the body is not susceptible to disease.

Vitamin C is good for skin and beauty care to prevent premature aging, like wrinkles on the face. Vitamin C also acts as an antioxidant which may counteract free radicals that enter the body through the foods that are fried or baked. Free radicals are very dangerous because it could potentially cause a blockage of blood vessels.

3. High fiber and beta-carotene
Dietary fiber (dietary fiber) pepino fruit is very good, 1 to 1.5 grams per 100 grams. Fiber is needed to lower cholesterol. In the digestive tract, fiber binds bile acids (the end product of cholesterol) and released with feces. The higher consumption of fiber, the more bile acids and fatty acids released.

In addition to preventing cholesterol, fiber aids the digestive system. Fibers capable of shortening the transit time, ie the time it takes food from the oral cavity until expelled as feces. Fiber binding carcinogenic (causing cancer). Thanks to the short transit time, residence time of carcinogenic substances in the body is also getting shorter, so that 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, about 10 grams per person per day. Should be 20-30 grams per person per day. Pepino is known as a source of beta carotene, 27 mg per 100 grams of meat. 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. Ability to work as antioxidants beta-carotene comes from its ability to stabilize the carbon-core radicals. Because beta-carotene is effective at low concentrations of oxygen, can complement the antioxidant properties of vitamin E is effective at high concentrations of oxygen.

These antioxidants also known as an element of cancer prevention, especially skin cancer and lung cancer. Beta-carotene can reach more parts of the body in a relatively longer time than vitamin A, so as to provide more optimal protection against cancer.

3 comments:

  1. For many older people, natural medicine is still the best treatments.

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  2. they are mostly inexpensive to produce. While some people may only have white rice to eat, these debilitating diseases can still be prevented. 3 Norge

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