One of my students told me that her favorite fruit was mangosteen. When I looked it up, it said that the mangosteen was “the queen of fruits” and had a billion healing properties.
Long List of Mangosteen Healing Properties
To sum it all up, here’s a partial list of the 200-plus, mind-boggling Mangosteen medicinal benefits and properties from the catalog of prominent ethnobotanist, Dr. James Duke.
•Anti-aging – helps prevent aging
•Anti-allergenic – helps prevent allergic reactions
•Anti-arthritic – helps prevent arthritis
•Anti-atherosclerotic – helps prevent the hardening of the arteries
•Antibiotic – prevents or modulates bacterial infections
•Anti-calculitic – helps prevent kidney stones
•Anti-cataract – helps prevent cataracts
•Antidepressant – helps with depression
•Anti-diarrheal – helps with diarrhea
•Anti-fatigue – helps relieve fatigue
•Antifungal – prevents or modulates fungal infections
•Anti-glaucomic – helps prevent glaucoma
•Anti-Inflammatory – helps with inflammation
•Anti-lipidemic – helps lower blood fat
•Anti-neuralgic – helps in nerve pain
•Anti-obesity – helps in weight loss
•Anti-osteoporosis – helps prevent the loss of bone mass
•Antioxidant-rich – rich in antioxidants
•Anti-oxolytic – anti-anxiety
•Anti-Parkinson – helps with Parkinson’s disease
•Anti-periodontic – helps prevent gum disease
•Antipyretic – helps lower fever
•Anti-tumor and cancer-preventive
•Anti-vertigo – helps prevent dizziness
•Antiviral – prevents or modulates viral infections
•Cardio-protective – helps in the protection of the heart
•Hypoglycemic – helps stabilize blood sugar
•Hypotensive – helps lower blood pressure
•Immunostimulant – helps the immune system fight infectionThis exotic fruit, used in traditional medicine for centuries, contains some of the most potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and anti-fungal compounds in nature.
Independent scientific research studies and clinical experience all show the remarkable health benefits of Mangosteen.
(stolen from http://mangosteen-juice-online.com/mangosteen-benefits.html)
My only problem was that I had no idea how to eat this. So I Googled it and got this.
After much work and effort to get to the mushy white center, I told myself that I was never going to eat this again. Then, I passed by a fruit vendor with my coworkers and asked them if there was an easier way to eat this fruit. They laughed at me when they realized just how much effort I put into eating this fruit and explained to me the “proper way of eating”.
Voila. Just take off the green leaves on the top and push the two sides open. Now this fruit is delicious, beneficial for my health and fun to eat.
Looks like a lychee inside
It’s really soft and slimy. There’s not much to eat and I often drop some on the floor.