Mangosteen Health Claims
There are many exemplars for ‘ super foods ‘ emerging from the Southern Hemisphere. Fruit that are meant to not only taste great but also help improve our health , fruits with amazing health benefits. They have come in all shapes and sizes, from many sorts of countries.
A fortunate few have proven to be able to back up their assertions of health benefits, others less so . One of the newest of such super fruits to show itself is the Mangosteen. Just Like the others, many people are saying terrific things about how beneficial the Mangosteen can be for our health. But what are the actual 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 research also explains why, till today , no one had made claims about the health benefits of the mangosteen – because until now researchers hadn’t had a chance to research it.
Not that it doesn’t have a ancient history , 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 long ago as 600AD
Mangosteen is a smallish fruit, aproximately a similar size as a tangerine. The rind ( skin ) of the Mangosteen is purplish and greenish , whilst the inner pulp is whitish . This pulp is much sought after by locals as an exquisite tasting fruit.
Indeed the English Queen, Victoria (1819 – 1901) is said to have enjoyed the taste of the fruit so much that she offered to bestow knighthoods on anyone who brought her more some of the fruit , which shows how well it was regarded even in Victorian Britain!
Mangosteen Health Claims
As the Mangosteen is just recently starting to be extensively studied by scientists there is still much about it that we are yet to understand . But initial scrutiny and research has brought a number of pertinent facts about the fruit in to the media .
- The Mangosteen has over 40 different types of Xanthones in it, making it the strongest single source of Xanthones known to naturally occur .
- Xanthones are useful to our health in a many ways, not least acting as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent, stopping or reducing swelling. Extremely useful for migraine sufferers.
- Antioxidants . Antioxidants are vital to help us battle against free radicals – dangerous molecules that may cause cancer. They are also of import in helping to strengthen our immune system to fight off assorted attacks.
- Illness. Many of the large amoun of anti-oxidants found in the mangosteen are anti-virals and anti-bacteria, helping us to be able to recover from illnesses rapidly , and potentially guard against an illness that you would differently get.
So however you prefer 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.
