Tamarillo / Terong belanda / Eggplant

Plants that like this cold area began to enter Indonesia since 1941. Eggplant is able to live and bear fruit with a temperature of 22-30 degrees. The temperature above it will usually be difficult to flower let alone bear fruit. Even sometimes this plant can die, because it can not stand the heat of the sun.

This eggplant has the characteristics of a leaf stalk with a length of 6-10 cm. The leaves have a distinctive green color like other types of eggplant in Indonesia. The fruit has an oval shape like a chicken egg, the difference is tapered on the part at two ends. It has two types of colors, namely red and yellow. What is often planted in Indonesia is the red eggplant.

Eggplants of this type do not like the land that has a pool of water, such as swamp or rice fields. So this plant can grow fertile when the soil is dry and the air temperature is cold.

If in terms of benefits, tamarillo has many benefits for health, beauty, even up to pregnant and lactating women. Of the many benefits contained in it makes this eggplant fruit into one of the favorite fruits for vitamin supplementation.

Tamarillo can also be made into various cuisines and drinks. Starting from the snack until the mixture of cooking spices. As for drinks, people often use it to make juice mixed with milk and other fruits added to feel fresh and healthy.