Fruit Averrhoa named latin Carambolaini certainly familiar to us. Elliptical with sharp edges of five with a sweet taste refreshing, really tempting. In international circles, the fruit is known as star fruit. This is because penampakah fruit if cut horizontally, which looks like a star.
Fruit from India or Sri Lanka is not only cultivated in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia, Thailand, and Philippines, but also dikenall in countries other sub-tropical climate, such as America and Australia. This is because the sweet star fruit easy to grow well in places with an altitude of 000-500 m above sea level with high rainfall and got quite a lot of sun. In Indonesia, sweet star fruit commonly found in Demak, Central Java.
The fruit that can bloom all year and is harvested three times a year also has a brother, namely star fruit star fruit or vegetable wuluh (Averrhoa bilimbi). It feels more mature and widely used for seasoning dishes, especially to give a sour taste in food.
Sweet star fruit has efficacy as an antipyretic and expectorant, so it can be used to overcome cough in children. The fruit that contains vitamin C has many benefits as antiinflasi, analgesic, and diuretic, so it is good to cure cough, thrush, sore throat, fever overcome, to overcome the problem of diabetes, and cholesterol. The content of vitamin C it is high is also good to eat people with cancer. The roots of sweet star fruit is also believed to cure headaches and joint pain. While the leaves can be used to treat stomach ulcers, purulent dermatitis, and ulcers.
Despite many benefits, for people with kidney disease should be careful with this fruit because it contains a lot of oxalic acid that is harmful to them.
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