Would you wonder if you know all parts of a tree gives valuable benefits? Yes, I was also shocked to know about the Rambutan tree, in which all parts bestow gifts to our body. In this article, I will share some facts about Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum).

Introduction

It is a tropical tree belonging to the family Sapindaceae which is medium-sized. It was derived from Malaysia, the Southeast Asian region. Furthermore, it looks like lychee fruit, both color-wise and looks-wise. So they are called sister fruits. The difference between rambutan and lychee fruit is the flesh of the rambutan is a sweet and creamy taste, while the lychee is crisper and has a less sweet flavor. The other difference is the rambutan fruit skin has hairy appendages, while the lychee has rough and thick outer skin. The rambutan is also related to longan, pulasan, and mamoncillo. In these pulasan, it looks like a rambutan; sometimes, some confusion may arise with it. These all are called the soapberry family fruits.

Benefits of fruits

1. Rambutans are rich in vitamin C, which has dynamic antioxidants, protecting your body cells against damage and also prevent cancer cells. It is enough to eat 5-6  rambutan fruit per day to pursue your daily requirement's 50% of vitamin C. Vitamin C is also helpful to boost your immune system. It also contains Vit B5, which helps the body convert food into energy that is not produced in our body, only obtained through the diet.

2. Rambutans contain antidiabetic agents. Rambutan peel extracts that reduced total cholesterol and triglyceride levels in diabetic patients. The ripen rambutan has a high sugar content that gets converted into alcohol and increases cholesterol levels, which is very risky for people enduring diabetes.

3. Rambutans contain minerals such as phosphorus that helps to remove unwanted junk from your kidneys. And also helping to build bones, teeth to contract muscles. The rambutans are also rich in dietary fiber helps to reduce constipation. 

Benefits of seeds

4. A tallow that can be provoked from rambutan seeds is similar to cocoa butter with a high level of arachidic acid. It is utilized in cosmetics instead of cocoa butter.  It is also an edible one to formulate soap and candles. If the canned rambutan contains only manganese, that is capable of providing 82 calories.

Benefits of roots

5. The roots of rambutan are used as a decoction for treating fever.

Benefits of leaves

6. The leaves of rambutan are used for poulticing to alleviate headaches.

Benefits of bark

7. The bark of rambutan is an astringent used for tongue diseases. The rambutan fruit also has an astringent used as a vermifuge and taken to relieve diarrhea and dysentery.

Benefits of young shoots

8. Young shoots of rambutan are used to produce green color on silk.

9. The fruit dye is one of the ingredients to dye silk black color.

Benefits of wood

10. The reddish color rambutan wood is fairly hard and heavy, producing resistance to insects but not fungi.

Conclusion

Then why are you waiting? Let's take a bag and go to the fruit market, purchase as much as you want rambutan fruit, and eat 5-6 fruits per day to get adequate benefits for your body.