## NONA FRUIT OR SERIKAYA (ANNONA SQUAMOSA)

*** Annona squamosa is a fruit that has a distinctive shape is different from other fruits in general. It feels so sweet and delicious to eat. Fruit sugar apple (Annona squamosa) is a fruit that is quite easy to meet, in the market or fruit store. In fact, most people in rural areas who have a fruit tree itself. So far we only know srikaya as plants that have fruit that can be consumed but has no idea about the benefits of fruit (Annona squamosa). Sugar apple (Annona squamosa) has a spherical shape. Rind is characterized - have skin with eyes (spots) resemble lumps are quite a lot and meets the skin of fruit (almost like soursop). White flesh, if the sugar apple fruit is ripe it will pick the flavor is sweet and has a shiny black seeds. ## CONTENT TREE SRIKAYA The bark and roots of the tree sugar apple (Annona squamosa) contains many compounds that are quite beneficial for human life, even though most of the content of sugar apple trees are also held in the womb in other crops. The content of sugar apple tree roots and bark of which are:

CONTENT STEM	CONTENT ROOTS
Alkaloid	Saponin
anonain	Tanin
Flavonida	Polifenol
Kamphor	Flavonoid
Terpene	Borneol
Borneol	Terpen
	Alkaloid
	anonain

*** ## BENEFITS TREE ROOTS AND SKIN SRIKAYA In addition, sugar apple tree bark has good benefits to be used as a herbal medicine in life.

Benefit Root	Skin Benefits of Trees.
Overcoming constipation,	Treating diarrhea.
Help the healing process of acute dysentery.	Topically, it can be used to treat wounds that bleed
Relieve mental depression.
Lower levels of bone pain in the back.

*** ## FRUIT BENEFITS SRIKAYA

1. Lowering High Cholesterol

The content of niacin that is high in fruits Serikaya can lower cholesterol levels for people with cholesterol. For those of you who frequent regularly consume this fruit will help to reduce cholesterol levels in your body.

2. Very good for digestion

Sugar-apple fruit contains high fiber, good for consumption for people with constipation because the fibers will be able to able to facilitate digestion in humans.

3. Good For Diabetes Patients

In addition to improving digestion, fiber contained in srikaya can slow the rate of absorption of blood sugar in the human body so as to prevent us from diabetes.

4. As Healer diarrhea.

Srikaya young fruit is able to treat diarrhea, the content of various vitamins and minerals contained in the fruit sugar apple is very effective to help cure diarrhea.

5. Prevent Asthma

With the vitamin C content of fruit sugar apple owned this course can make srikaya into prevention of some diseases, such as asthma. This is because vitamin C is one type of antioxidant.

6. Reduce Hypertension

The content of potassium contained in srikaya will contribute to lower blood pressure in the human body. With regular consumption of fruit sugar apple is very effective to help lower high blood pressure.

7. Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke.

Sugar-apple fruit contains vitamins B so as to prevent the development of homocysteine with homocysteine where large quantities can cause stroke and coronary heart disease.

8. Maintain Healthy bones and teeth.

Sugar-apple fruit also contains magnesium. Magnesium so that we can be of srikaya able to assist in maintaining bone density.

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