Saturday, August 30, 2008

Starfruit

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Averrhoa
Species: Averrhoa carambola
Other name: Carambola (Hawaii), Bilimbi (Srilanka, India), Belimbing (Indonesia, Malaysia)

Description
The star fruit, or carambola, is native to Sri Lanka and popular throughout southeast Asia, India, southern China, New Zealand, and Australia. The tree is well adapted to a variety of tropical and subtropical climates and is now cultivated in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America and to a lesser extent, Israel. The main restricting factor in California is frost, the tree being about as cold hardy as limes. The golden-yellow fruit is 3 to 8 inches long and 2 to 4 inches in width with an star shaped cross section. The thin skin, appears waxy but is edible. The sweet to acid flesh is juicy, crisp and mild flavored and usually eaten fresh.

Nutrition/100 gr Fruits Contain
Energy 35,00 Kal.
Protein 0,50 gr
Fat 0,70 gr
carbohydrate 7,70 gr
calcium 8,00 mg
Fosfor 22,00 mg
Fiber 0,90 gr
Iron 0,80 mg
Vitamin A 18,00 RE
Vitamin B1 0,03 mg
Vitamin B2 0,02 mg
Vitamin C 33,00 mg
Niacin 0,40 gr

Function
Nearby as the source of human body nutrition, the star fruit was also used for the prevention even therapy of various illness sorts, including being useful in:
  1. reduced the pressure of Blood
  2. Anti cancer
  3. Expedite digestion
  4. unloaded cholesterol, dan
  5. cleaned the intestines

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