Carambola or Latin language is Averrhoa carambola is a plant with greenish-yellow fruit. When cut, this fruit has a star-shaped cross section. Have small seeds and brown. The fruit is crunchy when eaten, sweet and slightly sour. Carambola consists of several types including starfruit Demak, bangkok star fruit, carambola sembiring, quarterly leatherback, leatherback Malaya, star fruit honey and starfruit goddess. The other type of star fruit, called starfruit, often used for seasoning dishes, especially to give a sour taste in cuisine.
Nutritional content of Carambola Fruit:
Calorie
Carbohydrate
Protein and Fat. Leatherback fat content consists of unsaturated fats. Leatherback has no saturated fat, trans fat or cholesterol.
Vitamins and Minerals - In a star fruit contains vitamin C and vitamin A. The content of iron in the star fruit. Carambola contains calcium, potassium or sodium.
This leatherback memeiliki many benefits for the body are:
Carambola is rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C itself has a function to keep the immune system, fight infection in the mouth or throat. Vitamin C is also good for beauty, because the compounds capable of inhibiting the ability of the DNA damaging free radicals in the skin.
Capable of lowering cholesterol levels
Carambola contains a number of minerals and electrolytes such as potassium, phosphorus, zinc, and iron. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. Thus, it will suppress the bad influence of sodium. Hypertension healing therapy done with starfruit, to consume them regularly.
Starfruit soluble fiber is also useful to prevent stroke, obesity, and maintain digestive health.
Many contain potassium minerals example are useful for heart health, bone strength and muscle contraction.
Can be utilized for the treatment of hypertension and treatment of diabetes mellitus or lower blood sugar levels.
However, because the rich in vitamin C carambola, star fruit can not be much given to people with kidney disease or kidney stones because it can aggravate the disease. Moreover, because the sugar content is high, people with diabetes should be careful in consuming this fruit.
