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Yeye/hog Plum Juice Fruit For Health In Nigeria by kijames: 10:52am On Aug 03, 2022 |
Hog plums known as June plums, Yellow Mombin or Monkey Mombin are a juicy fruit of hog plum tree found in tropical countries and come in diverse colors. There are many essential vitamins and nutrients present in hog plums that help fight against some free radicals that might be harmful to human health. Some of the nutritional benefits of these fruits include the following: 1. Good for Digestive Health Hog plums are rich in dietary fiber, which plays a key role in maintaining a healthy digestive system. The fiber content helps in improving the general functions of digestive health. It also prevents any form of issues that could arise due to poor digestion and other digestive health conditions like bloating and gas. 2. Improves Haemoglobin Production It is a good source of minerals such as iron, which helps produce hemoglobin and myoglobin, which transfer oxygen throughout the body systems. While the iron content in the fruits helps improve the Haemoglobin, which is the iron and oxygen-binding proteins located in the blood, it also helps improve the iron and oxygen-binding proteins in the muscles known as the muscles Myoglobin. Iron is a vital micronutrient essential to the body and functions great in preventing anemia and other blood conditions. 3. Contain a High Amount of Vitamin C Contain a good quantity of vitamin C, which is important for overall health and body function, such as maintaining and repairing bones and teeth and healing several ailments. Vitamin C is one of the antioxidants found in fruits and acts naturally as an agent that inhibits harmful oxidation processes by free radicals in the body, which could damage the body’s vital organs and cells. Vitamin C also helps improve the production of collagen, a protein found on the skin that functions to make the skin healthy, firm, and free against wrinkles. 4. Enhances Bone Health It is a fat-free, sodium-free, cholesterol-free fruit and a good source of vitamin K that helps in proper bone health. The vitamin K does not only helps in blood clotting, but it also helps to improve the bones by making them strong, thereby helping in the prevention of bones health conditions like bone fractures, etc.; its effects on osteoporosis has not been proven medically, though most people take it for this cause. Research also indicates that hog plums contain copper that maintains the bone and other connective tissues in the body system and is also needed to assimilate vitamin C properly. 5. Rich in Antioxidants Hog plums contain good vitamins, minerals, and phytochemical properties that perform oxidation functions in the body system. Its rich content of antioxidants helps reduce the effects of oxidative stress caused by free radicals in the body, leading to damage of the body’s vital organs. 6. Promotes Muscle Strength Thiamine is one of the vitamins which could be found in hog plum, and it has a lot of functions it performs in the body, with one of them being its ability to help in muscle contraction and conduction of nerve signals. Its deficiency can lead to many symptoms such as muscle weakness which could even lead to confusion. Adequate intake of this fruit can help eliminate the chances of this condition. 7. Serves as Diuretic and Febrifuge The intake of hog plum fruits or their juice is medicinal and can treat so many health conditions. It helps the body to effectively and adequately remove fluids (water) from the body through urine, which is to say that it helps in reducing the amount of salt (sodium) in the body, thereby decreasing the risk of high blood pressure. It also acts as a febrifuge, in the sense that it can serve as a substitute for fever medications, as it can help in the reduction and treatment of fever/malaria, which has been used locally in many tropical areas due to its properties like flavonoids, anthraquinones, sesquiterpenes, quinoline and more. Nutritional Values of Yellow Hog Plum Hog plum has a lot of nutritional contents, which includes sodium, calcium, magnesium, and much more, as can be seen below; Components Values Carbohydrates 13.80g Fats 0.62g Protein 1.06g Ash 0.75 Moisture 83.6g Energy 65.4g Dietary Fibre 1.87g Sodium 5.5mg Iron 0.33mg Potassium 287mg Phosphorous 32.7mg Manganese 0.03mg Magnesium 15mg Calcium 11mg Copper 0.12mg Lutein 634μg β-carotene 314μg α-carotene 340μg Zeinoxanthin 550μg β-criptoxanthin 1700μg..IF YOU NEED THE JUICE FOR MORE ORDER FOR YOUR HEALTH BENEFIT CALL MR. JAMES..07061570776..THANKS
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