Rare fruit in Indonesia

One of them is Rumbia fruit

Rumbia has a scientific name Metroxylon sagu. Rumbia is also commonly called the sago tree, which is a kind of palm-producing sago flour.
ordinary trees grown in freshwater swamps, streams and in the environment of lowland forest to a height of about 700 mdpl.

Rumbia is commonly found in the forests of Borneo. The fruit is round and scaly, almost similar to the bark of the bark, but it is larger. The fruit contains seeds and light weight.Now in Aceh difficult to find sago tree ,,,, rumbia fruit now already include rare fruit in Indonesia.

Here are some of the benefits of sago palm for humans:

• Become a food source for the community.
• Beneficial to overcome flatulence, diarrhea, bowel movements and vomiting.
• Maintains bone health, teeth.
  Not fast increase glucose sugar levels in the blood, safe in consumption for diabetics.

The selling price of rumbia is expensive because the fruit of rumbia is difficult to find, sebulumnya fruit is very easy to get. But over time the swamp changed function, many people who cut the tree of rumbia because only thinking of himself. Formerly Aceh residents are very attached to this one fruit, this fruit is one of the ingredients to make rujak very good at eating with plik.

In fact, people's interest in rumbia fruit is still very high, because many people who make rujak, especially at the time of kenduri or other big day.