Mangosteen – The queen of fruits
The season for Mangosteen will start very soon in Bali. Internally, the fruit features 4 to 10 juicy, snow-white colored, soft, fleshy triangular segments as in an orange. Each segment may contain 1-4 off white to light brown colored seeds, which are inedible and bitter in taste. The flavor of the fruit is sweet, fragrant, and delicious.
Mangosteen have some great health benefits, in Bali you can buy a lot of different health products made of this fruit like tea, juice, powder and many more; you can enjoy them fresh and pure or in a smooties.
Looking over the list of benefits we realized why the Balinese are so proud of this queen of fruits:
Mangosteen contains so many antioxidants, that it has the potential to neutralize the free radicals. Then they are able to be flushed out of the body without doing damage.
More benefits of Mangosteen:
- Slow aging
- Fight bacterial infections
- Prevent Alzheimer’s
- Improve symptoms of Parkinson’s
- Help with anxiety and depression
- Help reduce allergy symptoms
- Improve gum health and eye health
- Reduce Migraines
- Heal skin rashes
- Reduce blood pressure
- Energize
- Reduce inflammation
- Reduce pain
- Reduce tumor formation
- Reduce nerve pain
- Lower fever
- Lower cholesterol
- Stimulate red blood cell growth
- Help in the healing of stomach, mouth and bowel ulcers
- Help fight viruses and infections
- Support bone mass
- Improve immune response
- Help protect the heart
- Help reduce the formation of cataracts
- Reduce irritable bowel
- Help fight fungus and parasites
- Help support vascular health
Fresh purple fruits are available in the markets, and from now on you should buy and eat them at least once a week 🙂
