A series of benefits of passion fruit for your health
KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. Passion fruit, often processed into syrup. Apart from being sweet and fresh, passion fruit is rich in health benefits. This is the benefit of passion fruit for health.
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Usually passion fruit is used as an ingredient for making syrup. The sweet and sour taste of passion fruit makes the drink taste fresh.
Besides being processed into passion fruit syrup, it is also delicious to eat directly. Passion fruit is rich in minerals, perfect when eaten during the day.
Launching from a book entitled Natural Health with Herbs: 250 Medicinal Plants by Gagas Ulung, the Study Center, passion fruit contains fiber, vitamins A, C, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, and citric acid.
This content makes passion fruit believed to be able to eradicate a number of diseases.
From all parts, the leaves and passion fruit which are commonly used as herbal medicine.
Here are the benefits of passion fruit for health
1. Cancer
Based on the results of in vitro research at the University of Florida, yellow passion fruit extract contains phytochemicals that can kill cancer cells.
2. Fever
Passion fruit is also effective in reducing fever. To feel the benefits, you only need to provide 100 grams of ripe passion fruit. You take the meat and squeeze it.
You drink passion fruit juice two 2-3 times a day.
3. Deworming
Passion fruit is also useful as a worm medicine. To make this herbal medicine you boil 60 grams of passion fruit leaves in 400 ml of water for 10 minutes.
After boiling, you strain and chill. You drink these herbs 2 times a day.
4. Maintain a healthy body
The content of vitamin C in passion fruit is useful for increasing endurance. With a note, you eat passion fruit regularly.
5. Smooth digestion
Launching from kaltim.tribunnews.com, passion fruit is good for those of you who often suffer from constipation.
Passion fruit contains fiber and has a laxative pharmacological effect. This means that passion fruit is useful to help clean the colon and keep the digestive tract healthy.
6. Improve heart health
Luckily for those of you who eat passion fruit regularly. Because eating passion fruit along with its seeds can reduce cholesterol deposits in blood vessels.
That way you will avoid the risk of heart disease.
How did you get interested in eating passion fruit regularly?
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