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Mangosteen Facts

There is a strong precedent for ‘ Superfoods ‘ coming out of from the Southern Hemisphere. Fruits that not just are enjoyable to eat but also help increase your health, fruits with amazing health benefits. They have come in all shapes and sizes, from many sorts of countries.

Some have proven to be able to prove their claims of health benefits, others less so . One of the newest of these super fruits to show itself is the Mangosteen. Just Like the others, many authorities are saying tremendous things about how useful the Mangosteen can be to our health. But what are the genuine facts?

Mangosteen Facts

The Mangosteen is the fruit of a plant indigenous to the Indonesia , which is why many people in the Western world have still not heard all about it . This remoteness from Western study also explains why, till now , very few people had made statements about the health benefits of the mangosteen – as till now researchers hadn’t had a chance to study it.

Not that it doesn’t have a long track record , far from it . The health giving properties of the Mangosteen have been accepted for over 1400 years. Locals used a dried and pulped version of the fruit and its rind to make potions and salves as far back as 600AD

Mangosteen is a smallish fruit, aproximately a similar size as a tangerine. The rind ( skin ) of the Mangosteen is purple and green , whilst the inner most pulp is white . This pulp is much sought after by locals as a wonderful tasting fruit.

Indeed the British Queen, Victoria (1819 – 1901) was said to have enjoyed the taste of the fruit so much that she offered to bestow knighthoods on all who brought her more more , which shows how much it was regarded even in Victorian Britain!

Mangosteen Health Claims

Because the Mangosteen is just recently coming to be extensively studied by scientists there is still much about it that we are yet to understand . But initial scrutiny and research has highlighted a number ofappropriate facts about the fruit to our attention .

The Mangosteen has over 40 different types of Xanthones in it, making it the strongest single source of Xanthones believed to naturally occur .
Xanthones are useful to our health in a number of ways, not to the lowest degree acting as a strong anti-inflammatory agent, stopping or reducing swelling. Extremely useful for migraine sufferers.
Antioxidants . Anti-oxidants are vital to help us battle against free radicals – dangerous molecules that may cause cancer. Plus they are crucial in helping to build and strengthen our immune system to fight off diverse attacks.
Illness. Many of the impressive number of anti-oxidants pinpointed in the mangosteen are anti-virals and anti-bacteria, helping us to be able to get over illnesses promptly, and potentially fight off an illness that you would otherwise get.

So however you choose to enjoy your mangosteen, whether in juice, fresh or freeze-dried supplement form you now have an understanding of exactly what it is that you are putting into your body.

Mangosteen Facts

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