Monday, December 5, 2011

The Abiu



The Abiu (Pouteria Caimito)


 

The Abiu is a kind of sapodilla fruit fresh from Australia. It felt strange and unusual. The form also does not resemble the sapodilla, although Abiu tree has characteristics similar to the sapodilla family, which is woody and can reach 15cm in height. The fruit shape is an oval to rounded, with a length of 6-12 cm and weight 150-500 g/fruit. Because widely cultivated in Australia, plants that are included in PouteriaCaimito species and Sapotaceae family are better known as the sapodilla Australia. In fact, the original home is the area around the Amazon lowlands of Peru, and Brazil.




Abiu Fruit adaptive in tropical and subtropical climates it thrives ranging from lowland to upland. The main merits than other Sapotaceae family members are quick to bear fruit. At the age of 2 years, the origin of seed plants start flowering. Two months later, the flowers become fruit is green and gradually becomes bright yellow when fully ripe / mature.






Abiu fruit flesh is white translucent with characteristic flavor sweet sticky and fresh. Someone described it as a young coconut flavor, but there are also those who identify with a blend of milk and caramel. Because the meat is tender and slightly juicy, edible abiu cleaved by transverse or longitudinal; or also with a scooped. In each fruit there are seeds abiu 1-5.






Besides can be eaten directly, abiu fruit can be processed into various food specials, like Abiu Carambola Chicken Breast (fried chicken breast cooked with abiu and starfruit juice), Abiu Tart, Sweet & Sour Abiu & Beefburger, and so on. Because many contain vitamins A, B3, and C, as well as a rich source of calories and fiber, Abiu fruits also have many benefits for our health. In Brazil, abiu fruit pulp is used to relieve coughs, bronchitis and other respiratory complaints or lungs. While the tree sap abiu efficacious as de-worming, laxatives, and heal wounds swollen.

Fruits Advantages


Fruits Advantages

The Fruits is very useful for our health. If we have observed, is so large and very helpful to accelerate our body's metabolism. Because of the vitamins and nutrients contained in the fruit that makes the fruit is very good for our body's health. If you eat it regularly and not excessive, we will obtain good results.

An idiom growing in our society it is clear that a healthy diet that is four of five perfectly healthy. In our society it is already known. But sometimes the concept of four perfectly healthy five were sometimes not quite right is still understandable by most people. Four of five perfectly healthy understood that these components must be provided at the same time in every activity of eating.

The four of five perfectly healthy applications were actually taking elements gradually. Our bodies have the capacity and rhythm to respond food intake. The most important thing is not entering four of five perfectly healthy, but how digestion. A good meal is eat a mainstreaming the rhythms of the body's digestion. So, the development would happen inside us would be running smoothly as well.

 
The fruit is one of the essential elements in the diet that are useful to support our health. Consuming the fruits as a dietary supplement was has to fulfill four of five perfectly healthy. This is because the fruits have the nutrients and nutrients needed by the body.

Enhanced by ZemantaIn the fruitcontains some elements that are necessary for the health of our bodies, the main content of fruits consists of water, vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and carbohydrates. The benefits of each of these elements for our body include: Water, the body needs balance of the amount of water available so that the numbers need to be maintained. We should consume 2 liters of water in a day, this water needs can be met, among others, by consuming fruits.