Rambutan ( Nephelium lappaceum )

Because the skin such as hair overgrown, it is a fruit native to Indonesia is known as the rambutan. In 1906, Indonesia had exported rambutan seeds to the United States. But unfortunately, rambutan can not live there. Now some countries, like Thailand and Malaysia known as an exporter of rambutan is already packed in cans.

Benefits of rambutan fruit very much at all. For health, rambutan fruit useful for toning muscles, upset stomach, and deworming medication. The roots can be brewed for drug fever, bark to treat diseases of the tongue, leaves as a remedy headaches, while the skin of rambutan fruit contain toxic saponin, but in Java, the skin of this fruit can be used as medicine by dried first.

Rambutan fruit stored in drug efficacy are priceless, according to an expert review of medicinal plants, fruit rambutan contains iron, potassium, vitamin C. sapai in every 100 grams (about 3 rambutan fruit contained 69 calories, 18.1 grams of carbohydrates, and 58 mg vitamin). Rambutan fiber content is also quite high, about 2 grams per 100 grams of fruit weight. This fits the character of the fruit consumed by the people who are dieting lose or maintain weight.
What about the rambutan fruit seeds? Apparently rambutan fruit seeds can also be utilized. Rambutan seeds are non-toxic and contains carbohydrates, fats, proteins, which can meet the needs of the body of nutrients. Rambutan seed polyphenols also quite high in fat. Composition of chemical substances in rambutan seeds produced hypoglycemic properties (lowering blood sugar levels) so that the seeds of rambutan is widely used for alternative treatments to normalize blood sugar levels of people with diabetes (diabetes mellitus are likely to be high).