If you live in Africa, chances are, you’ve heard about the Baobab fruit, but aside from its delicious taste, did you know that it has a lot of health benefits? Or you have always accepted that it is one of those foods that aren’t really nutritional but don’t really cause you harm? Well you will be interested to know that this food has been discovered to have so many health benefits and here are some of those benefits:
1. Extremely Rich in Vitamin C:
One of the main fascination about the Baobab fruit is that it is highly packed with Vitamin C. Your skin, bones, gums and teeth need vitamin C to carry out their functions. Your body also needs vitamin C to help it absorb iron and to fight off colds. Gram for gram baobab fruit has about six times more vitamin C than in an orange. A single serving of baobab provides you with a quarter of your RDA. A 100-gram serving of baobab fruit pulp has been reported to contain up to 500 milligrams of vitamin C (almost 10 times the amount of vitamin C found in oranges.
Vitamin C form your body form collagen and elastin, these give your skin the firmness and elasticity everybody wants. The fruit also has remarkable antioxidant attributes. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, unstable atoms and molecules that can cause damage to your body at the cellular level, making your risks to degenerative diseases escalate and other signs of aging, including wrinkles and sagginess of the skin.
2. Rich in Fiber:
Another important supplement the Baobab fruit provides is Fiber. A tablespoon of baobab powder mixed or sprinkled over your food provides 33% of your Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of fiber. Fiber in the diet has many important roles. Fiber helps you maintain a healthy digestive tract. For example, if you are suffering from diarrhea drinking enough Baobab juice will work on your digestive system and reduce your need to visit the rest room tremendously. Also it plays a role in helping you keep your weight in check as it gives you a full and stuff feeling which will discourage you from continuous eating. The high levels of pectin (a type of soluble fiber) in baobab also act like a sponge in the blood and help soak up unwanted fat and cholesterol in the bloodstream.
3. Strong Healthy Bones:
Calcium is also part of the wonders of this fruit. Calcium is needed for healthy, strong bones and Baobab has more calcium in it than can be found in milk. Baobab fruit powder contains over 250mg of calcium, vital for building and maintaining healthy bones. It should also come in handy to food makers for vegans and vegetarian so that the Baobab fruit could be a full source of calcium which they might not otherwise get from their preferred foods.
4. Serves as a detoxing agent
Baobab fruit also serves as a natural liver cleanser and detoxifier. If you are in an environment that exposes you to a lot of cigarette, industrial polluted air, and chemicals -which are all toxins that can cause severe damage to the liver and limit its detoxifying toxic substance capabilities. A study had researchers test the hepatoprotective activity against liver injury in rats. The water-based baobab extract used in this study was found to have significant protective effects against liver damage. It has been proposed that the potential hepatoprotective properties of the baobab fruit may be linked to the presence of triterpenoids, beta-sitosterol, beta-amyrin palmitate and ursolic acid in baobab pulp.
Conclusion:
This is surely a lot to take in, especially since you’ve probably never heard of the Baobab fruit. Is the fruit a sixth wonder in modern medicine and health? Of course not, but it can’t be denied it can immensely improve the quality of your health. Who doesn’t want healthier skin and stronger bones?
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