Cempedak fruit is a fruit that looks similar to jackfruit, but the taste and the season is different. Cempedak fruit has a sweeter taste than fruit Jackfruit. The trunk has a more fluid sap than the jackfruit stalk.
Cempedak fruit is only fruitful once a year. Cempedak fruit can be processed into various foods, from candied, fried and even can be directly eaten. Cempedak fruit grows a lot in South Sumatra, North Sumatra, Bangka Island and Belitung Island. Here are the benefits of Cempedak fruit:
Flesh is usually eaten fresh. However, there is also a frying like a banana or process it into a compote by adding coconut milk and sugar. This fruit is delicious when it is cooked.
Young leaves cempedak also widely used as vegetables. Fruit seeds are good to eat after being processed, fried, or boiled like jackfruit seeds. In Malaysia, its roots are used as a mixture of traditional herbal medicine for women who have just given birth.
Cempedak helps nourish the eyes, given its vitamin A content is quite high, which is about 200 SI per 100 grams. Vitamin A plays a role in maintaining the cornea of the eye to always be healthy.
Contains higher vitamin C than jackfruit, and contains dietary fiber (dietry fiber) is high enough to help maintain healthy digestive tract and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood.
The bark of cempedak also contains components that can help prevent tumors and malaria. And the main compound heteriflavone C which can eliminate the parasite causing malaria to 100 percent.