Noni and must know facts about Noni
Noni plants grow in tropical climates and now are being cultivated all over the world due to the nutritional and medicinal value of its fruit. The plant grows up to thirty feet tall and is capable of providing fruits all round the year. While the trunk of the plant resembles that of a shrub its leaves are oval in shape and the branches bear tubular flowers that are white in color. Noni fruit grows in bunches and are about 12 centimeters in breadth. Though the looks of the fruit are good, it cannot be consumed raw. Both the taste and the odor of noni fruit are repulsive. While the noni fruit juice is well known to the world, the rest of the plant ranging from its roots, bark, stem, and flowers are also used for producing various medicinal products.
In order make noni fruit edible, it has to be processed in a method that changes the taste and odor of the fruit. This is why companies processing noni add permitted flavors and sweeteners to make noni products edible. Of late noni is ranked with other super foods in the market such as acai berry, blueberry, etc. Although noni has been in use for ages in the Asian countries, the rediscovery of its nutritional values and medicinal values backed up by the scientific proof made noni resurface as a commercial product.
According to experts in the industry, noni fruit comprises several rare nutrients such as scopoletin, terpenoids, octoanoic acid, anthraquinones, caproic acid, damnacanthal, ursolic acid and rutin. While most of the phytochemicals present in the noni fruit enhance the immunity of the body, some of them are also well known anti-microbial substances. Apart from strengthening the immune system of the human body, the anti-microbial action of the noni fruits helps in prevention of bowl related ailments.
Noni fruit is also an excellent antioxidant. The antioxidant property of noni juice expels the toxic material and free radicals that accumulate in the body. It is a