There is a strong precedent for ‘ Superfoods ‘ emerging from the Southern Hemisphere. Fruits that are meant to not only taste great but also help improve your health , fruits with amazing health benefits. They have come in all shapes and sizes, from many types of countries.
A few have proven to be able to prove their assertions of health benefits, many others not . One of the up-to-date of such super fruits to emerge is the Mangosteen. Like the others, many people are saying wonderful things about how beneficial the Mangosteen can be for our health. So what are the actual facts?
Mangosteen Facts
The Mangosteen is the fruit of a plant native 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, until now , very few people had made statements about the health benefits of the mangosteen – because till now researchers had been unable to research it.
That is not to say that it doesn’t have a ancient history , not at all . The health benefits of the Mangosteen have been accepted for over 1400 years. Indigenous peoples used a dried and pulped version of the fruit and its rind to make potions and salves as long ago as 600AD
Mangosteen is a smallish fruit, about the same size as a tangerine. The rind ( pith ) of a Mangosteen is purple and green , whilst the inner pulp is whitish . This pulp is prized by the local inhabitants as an exquisite 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 give knighthoods on all who brought her more more , which is an example of how much it was regarded even in Victorian Britain!
Mangosteen Health Claims
Because the Mangosteen is just recently coming to be extensively studied by researchers there is still much about it that we are yet to understand . But initial testing and research has brought several appropriate facts about the fruit in to the media .
- The Mangosteen has more than 40 varied types of Xanthones in it, making it the strongest single source of Xanthones believed to occur naturally .
- Xanthones are useful to our health in a many ways, not to the lowest degree acting as a strong anti-inflammatory agent, stopping or reducing swelling. Extremely useful for the likes of migraine sufferers.
- Antioxidants . Anti-oxidants are essential to help us battle against free radicals – dangerous molecules that can cause cancer. Plus they are of import in helping to build and strengthen our immune system to ward off various attacks.
- Illness. Part of the impressive number of anti-oxidants found in the mangosteen are anti-virals and anti-bacteria, helping us to be able to get over illnesses quickly , and potentially guard against an illness that you would differently get.
So however you select to take your mangosteen, whether in juice, fresh or freeze-dried supplement form you should now know exactly what it is that you are putting into your body.