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Rambutan (Nephelium Lappaceum) is a tropical fruit that’s native Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and is also cultivated in many other places in the tropics, including Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Africa, the Caribbean islands, Central America, and Australia.

Rambutan fruit is a tropical fruit that is known as one of the best fruit from southeast asian that has a delicious taste and benefits of good health to the body. Rambutan fruit in Indonesia, Philippines, and Malay literally means hairy caused by hair that covers this fruit. The fruit is usually sold fresh, used in making jams and jellies, or canned.

The term rambutan is derived from the Malay word “hair”, which describes the numerous, characterizing, long, soft, red or red and green colored spine-like protuberances (spinterns) on the surface of the peel. The pericarp of this attractive oval-shaped fruit can be red, orange, pink, or yellow in color and is removable by a twist of the hands. The edible, pearlish white, juicy, crispy, sweet and subacid flavored flesh (sarcotesta) conceals a single seed with a thin, fibrous seed coat (testa).

Benefits of Rambutan Fruit to Our Body

Rambutan fruit contains carbohydrate, protein, fat, phosphorus, iron, calcium and vitamin C. Skin tanin and fruits contain saponin. The seeds contain fat and polifenol. The leaves contain tannin and saponin. Skin stem contains tannin, saponin, flavonida, pectic substances, and iron.

There are usually a light brown seeds are high in some Fats and oils (mainly oleic acid and eicosanoic acid) valuable to industry, and is used in cooking and the manufacture of soap. Rambutans roots, bark, and leaves have various uses in the production of dyes and drugs.

The following are the use of rambutan fruit by localism and method to use the entitle of fruit to cure or reducing syndrome:

Soften hair quality
Rambutan leaves cleaned by water. Blend and stir it until pasty, finally the water filtered from pasty. The water used to wash or moisturized scalp hair daily for the good result.

Reduce fever temperature
Wash rind of rambutan fruit and dried it. The dried rind then boiled with water for around 15 – 20 minutes. Drink it for 3 times a day , it will help to reducing the temperature of fever and get recover from fever earlier.

Body fat reducing and Soften the skin appearance
Peel off the outer skin of seeds. Washed and destroy into small piece and mixed with others food to sallow it or else eaten by raw. The consistency may bring down the body fat.

Treat diabetes
Wash and dried Rambutan seeds normally 4 – 6 seeds per time and mashed up into powder structure. Then added some water and drink it. Drink it 1 time a day.

Treat dysentery and diarrhea
Wash rind of rambutan fruit for 7 – 10 rind fruit and cut to small piece for nutrition easier dissolve in water. Boiled it for 15 – 20 minutes. Drink 1 or 2 times a day.

Lighten headache
Wash rambutan leaves . Mashed to moist form and place at side forehead to lighten headache.

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