The content of vitamins in the fruit of cashew nuts and its benefits

Cashew has unique taste, cashew cashew pulp
is a rich source of vitamin C and nutrients
Other essentials such as calcium and iron. It contains up to
5 times more vitamin C than oranges. This fruit is called
Guava Apple. We are all familiar with cashew nuts
really grows from the base of Apple Guava. When
they are harvested pulp separated from the nuts
and made in a very nutritious juice. The guava juice is very

high in vitamin C, has more than 5 times vitamin C
of orange juice. Only 1 glass of guava juice filled
daily needs for adults.
Cashew Nuts Peanuts, shaped like nuts, large
thick, sometimes more than 2.5 cm (one inch)
length, and shape in an unusual way. Features
nuttiest of cashew nuts is that it is inherent
at the bottom of the cashew apple that looks like a fruit,
but in reality is the enlarged rod
from the cashew tree. Cashews can be seen sitting satisfied at
underneath the gentle stomach of cashew apple '. Together, that
is one of the interesting tourist attractions of nature.
The cashew seed has its own in itself
the kernel as a whole and this delicate kernel is covered
by thickly thicker membrane and outer skin tests
protecting delicious kernels from natural damage from the moment
harvest until processing.
In raw form, the soft, white and cashew kernels
fat. When baked turns color and flavor. Kernel
the cashew changed from creamy white to golden and
mellow pulp becomes crunchy. Salty, it appeals to the sky-
the sky as the most delicious beans.

Benefits of Guava Monkey (Jambu Mede) For Health

Monkey fruits that do not look like monkeys at all.
The Benefits of Guava Monkey (Anacardium occidentale) - Cashew Mede, Cashew, Cashew is in no way included in the family of guava trees (Myrtaceae). This tree is more closely related to the tree
mango (Anacardiaceae tribe). The famous of these plants is actually not the fruit but the seeds are called cashew nuts. But this plant also does not include the family of beans (Fabaceae).
This monkey tree is a medium-sized, with a maximum height can reach 12 meters. Not including a tree that is upright, branching more sideways but not overgrown because the leaves are quite rare. What has been known by society as a fruit (soft part with a lot of water content) is not actually the fruit. But the base of flowers that expands after conception. Then called the false fruit. The original part of the fruit is the hard-shelled portion of the cashew. Where in it there is a seed called 'cashew nut'.
Pseudo cashew fruit is rarely used as a commodity. Because it is not so sweet and often mixed with sour taste and even sepat. But the original fruit, this 'cashew nut' is a good export commodity. In addition can be processed as a snack, also been used as an important ingredient in the food industry. Usually used to decorate cake or chocolate. The young leaves are made as raw vegetables or steamed.
In medicine, almost all parts of cashew plants are efficacious as a drug. Its ability as a drug has been used in more than 23 countries. Guava monkey even entered the list of priorities WHO as the most widely used medicinal plant in the world. In a scientific journal mentioned that guava monkeys have efficacy in improving the ability of the brain and restore the function of the brain is disturbed (memory loss, work fatigue, s3ksual disorders, hallucinations, memory retardation and so on).
The leaves are usually used as an external medicine to treat skin diseases or burns. The juice of the skin of the fruit in the form of oil can also be used to treat warts or ulcers. The root part of cashew monkeys is used to treat diarrhea, mouthwash to
cope with canker sores and get rid of acne.
Chemical content of Guava Monkey
The ability of cashews as a medicine can not be separated from the chemical content in it. Each part of the plant certainly has different properties and content.
Tree bark . Contains tannins, tannins, gallic acid and catechin gingkol.
Leaf. Contains tannins, flavonols, sonardiol acids, elegate acids, phenol compounds, cardiac and cardiard metals.
Fruit. Contains protein, fat, vitamins (A, B and C), calcium, phosphorus, iron, and sulfur.
Pericarp. Contains tannin, sonardic acid, and elegat acid.
Seeds. Contains 40-45% oil and 21% protein.
The oil. Contains oleic acid, linoleic acid, and vitamin E.
Sap. Contains furfural.
The nutrient content of pseudo-fruits on guava monkeys per 100 grams
Nutrition Information Nutrition Value (gram)
Calories 73 kkl
Protein 4.6 grams
0.5 grams of fat
Hydrate of 16.3 grams of charcoal
Calcium 33 milligrams
Phosphorus 64 milligrams
Iron 8.9 milligrams
Water 78 grams
Vitamin A 2.689 SI
Vitamin C 65 grams

Benefits of Guava Monkey for Health
Guava monkey is a fruit plant that many found in Indonesia. Because of its chemical content, this plant is often used as a medicine to support health. Benefits of cashew guava or cashew for the health of the world, among others, as the description below:

1. Prevent anemia
   In pseudo-fruits, a lot of meat and water, there is a mineral content such as iron. As we know, this iron is an important mineral that plays a role in the formation of red blood cells. Consuming 100 grams of cashew fruit is enough to meet the daily needs of iron in adult men.
2. Ward off free radicals
   Foods such as fresh fruits or vegetables, have the ability to ward off free radicals that cause disease. This is because the content of antioxidants in fresh fruit and vegetables is very large. Including cashew guava.
3. Maintain eye health
   The eye is a very important penta ndera that must be maintained health. And you should know that the eyes also need the right foods to stay healthy. One of them is vitamin A that serves to maintain eye health. Guava monkey contains vitamin A of 2,689 SI in every 100 grams. About 80% of daily adult vitamin A requirement.
4. Treating asthma
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   In Indonesia this beloved, a lot of herbs that can be used as a traditional asthma remedy. One of them is guava monkey. A study shows that people with asthma have a low vitamin c content in the body. Well, guava monkey with high vitamin C content can be used to overcome the problem. Consumption of guava monkeys in people with asthma can reduce shortness of breath.
5. Controlling blood pressure
   High blood is at risk of increasing the chances of having a stroke and heart disease. Monkey fruits rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants can help lower high blood pressure.
6. Reduce the risk of heart disease
   Atherosclerosis is a state in which the heart arteries thicken. This condition increases the risk of heart attack because the blood flow becomes not smooth. Consumption of fruits that contain high vitamin C such as guava monkeys can help overcome atherosclerosis in the heart.
   Benefits of Guava Monkeys as Traditional Medicines
   In addition to consumed lagsung to get healthy benefits. Guava monkeys can also be processed into a kind of herb that is used to overcome various diseases. The following is an example of the processing of the cashew plant part for herbal medicine.
7. Treating rheumatism
   Many traditional rheumatic drugs can be used and made alone. One of them with the efficacy of cashew leaf cashew. Grab a handful of young cashew leaf, llau washed and roughly sliced. Boil with 3 cups water until only 1 cup left. After the cold, the water is filtered and drunk. Perform this treatment routinely 2 times a day each 1/2 cup every time drinking.
8. Sprue
   To treat canker sores, wash a handful of young cashew leaf, and a cashew bark. Boil with 3 cups water to boiling water and 2 glasses live. Drink boiled water 2 times a day. If any of the rest can be used to rinse.
9. Sore throat
   Inflammation of the throat can cause pain when swallowing food. consequently all the food that comes into it does not feel good. Appetite was so reduced. Take 5 cashew pink fruits, then grated and squeezed the water. Add 4 tablespoons drinking water and 2 tablespoons of honey, mix well. Drink ingredients 3 times a day each 2 tablespoons each time drinking.
10. Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
    Diabetes is a dangerous disease that must be taken seriously. One of the traditional medicines that are efficacious to overcome this is the bark of a cashew. Way, 15 grams of cashew leather washed clean, cut into pieces as needed, then boiled with 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup. After the cold, the water is filtered and drunk. Perform this treatment routinely 2 times a day, each 1/2 cup every time drinking.
11. Treating constipation
    Constipation is a term in which a person has difficulty defecating fluently. Difficult difficulty This chapter will affect the body's overall metabolic system. Feces or stools in the stomach that are not removed will also be a new problem. To overcome this, wash 10 grams of bark of guava tree and then boiled monkey with 2 glasses of water. After the cold water is filtered and taken 2 times a day. That is the benefits of cashew in the world of traditional medicine.
12. Dysentery, diarrhea, diarrhea
    Benefits of other cashew leaf is a cure for stomach diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery or diarrhea. Way, boil a handful of cashew leaf and 1 piece of bark cashew tree with 1.5 liters of water to boil, then filtered. Drinking water 2 times a day, in the morning and afternoon.
13. Skin disease
    Benefits of other guava monkeys are as traditional medicine to overcome skin diseases such as eczema, ulcers, or burns. The plant part used is old leaves. Young leaves are usually used as fresh vegetables. can be tried by pounding until smooth, then borehkan on the skin of the sick.
14. Treat warts
    Many ways to treat warts done with traditional medicine. for example with sap of kicat tree, jatropha tree and frangipani tree. Well, one more that can be used to treat warts is a cashew nut oil.
    Other Guava Monkey Benefits
    Benefits of cashew is not limited to health and the world of medicine alone. For other fields of this plant still has many benefits.
    As an adhesive
    Stems of cashew plants are not so valued either economically or medically. But we can still use the sap of ape tree as a sticky substance to glue the book, etc. The sap is also efficacious as anti-termites on plywood such as sills.
    As animal feed
    Pseudo cashew fruit is not so valuable economical. But we can still use it as animal feed. The nutrients contained in it will make our cattle healthy.
    As a food preparation
    Monkey guava fruit can also be processed as a meal such as jam, jem and sweets or syrup.
    Side Effects Guava Monkey
    The benefits of guava monkeys are very large both medically and economically (especially the cashew nuts. But this plant also contains some quite dangerous toxins that need to be aware of, including:
    This plant contains tannins, which can cause itching of the skin.

The skin of the fruit can cause dermatitis.
This plant also contains a light yellow oil that tastes sweet (acayu oil), consisting of 4O-50% cardigan (poisonous tannin) and acid anakardia.
This fruit oil causes skin burning or bulging. Most cases, blisters and itching lips when breaking the cashew nut shells with teeth.
Yes, how else. Although the benefits of this cashew is spelled a lot but the side effects are also not kidding. So to do the treatment with cashew cashew, especially the sap and oil must be done by experts. But do not worry, for the fruits of the semunya, the sweet-acid-sepat classified as safe for consumption. As long as it does not play with the nut part of the mete.

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