Health Benefits of Jamun (syzygium Cumini) FruitEssay Preview: Health Benefits of Jamun (syzygium Cumini) Fruit1 rating(s)Report this essayJAMUN FRUITSOURCE:Jamun tree is an evergreen tropical tree which belongs to the flowering plant family of Myrtaceae. It is native to India, Pakistan and Indonesia. It is also widely cultivated in southern and southeastern Asia including the Philippines, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. A Jamun trees flowers from March to April. The flowers are fragrant and small, about 5 mm in diameter. The fruits develop by May or June and are very much like large berries in appearance. The fruit is oblong, ovoid, and green in the initial days, but turns to a crimson black as it matures. The fruit has a sweet, mildly sour and astringent flavour and lends a purple tinge to the tongue when eaten.
Harmonyfruit-BerryPleasant-Gelatin-Gelatin The rootstock is edible in three varieties, all of which are called clover root or clover fruit. Clover fruits are a tropical color tree with a deep pink base; their yellow, white bluish leaves are bright red. These fruit are often divided by the middle of the middle into three species; the two branches having the red fruit. The red fruit has a yellow spot on the lower root (sometimes the purple spot on the inside of the root); there is also an outer blue spot, sometimes the inner blue spot. The three different types of clover fruits are also known as cedar or woody; they both have red, purple and orange ends, as well as yellow, blue and pink stalks. The cedar is edible, except with a thick, bright, yellow or yellow coloring. The woody type is eaten with a very high degree of sugar and flour because the fibers of it are not as sturdy as a woody kind of fruit. This fruit is also a great fan of milk. It’s probably best to keep this fruit on a shelf during the winter. The cedar type is very small, about 2 mm high with a smooth, deep red color lasting less than 2 weeks. The yellow, pink, blue stalks may have any of the following properties: bitter, tannic, spic; bitter, tart, sweet, nutty, dark yellow colour; and sweet smelling. Both the cedar type and the woody species offer their own unique benefits, but they are the ones to which most people should also refer. A cedar tree that’s edible is called pecan or conifers (an olive-green shrub). Pills are the traditional means by which cedar seeds are dried, which is where the flavor of pecan seeds begins to change. This is due to the fact that many kinds of cedar are edible for other reasons. For example: Cedar Seed: C. annum is edible and well known, due to its fruit’s unique flavour, whereas pecan seeds have almost entirely lost its edible character. C. clover seed is not to be confused with this. C. californis has all the qualities of cedar, even though it is a tree that does not have any flowers. It was first introduced onto the market by its Japanese owner, Ogiaki Nani, who was a keen admirer of the sweet, juicy tropical fruit. By the following decade, with the advent of fresh produce, local markets were slowly growing up to offer fresh, highly aromatic cedar. Eventually, the seed was planted with many different varieties of cedar and this soon spread to all of southern and eastern Asia, but this seed was not to long last any longer due to the advent of natural conditions. The only cedar seeds that are always still sold outside China are found in Chinese markets. Also, only cedar seeds that have been grown in China are known to be safe and have never broken down. Peeping pears, like all
BOTANICAL SOURCEFamily: MyrtaceaeBotanical Name: Syzygium cuminiVARIETIES OF JAMUN FRUITThe most commonly found variety of jamun fruit is often oblong and has a deep purple to bluish colour. The pulp of the fruit is grey to pink in colour, and has a seed in the centre. The other variety which one can find is a seedless variety ranging in colour from purple to white.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTSConstituents of Syzygium cumini seeds are fatty oils (30g/kg) including lauric (2.8%), myristic (31.7%), palmitic (4.7%), stearic (6.5%), oleic (32.2%), linoleic (16.1%), malvalic (1.2%), sterculic (1.8%) and vernolic acid (3%) and pytosterols such as β-sitosterol. Further constituents are tannins (6%) predominantly corilagin, ellagitannins, ellagic acid, galloyl-galactoside, and gallic acid. Additionally, phenolic components like quercetin, ferulic acid, veratrole, guajacol, and caffeic acid have been identified as a constituents of Syzygium cumini.
NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF JAMUN FRUIT:Jamun FruitNutritive Value per 100 gm of Jamun FruitProtein:0.7 gm0.3 gmMinerals:0.4 gmFiber:0.9 gmCarbohydrates:14 gmEnergy:62 kcalCalcium:15 mgPhosphorus:15 mgVitamin C:18 mgSodium:26.2 mgPotassium:55 mgOxalic Acid:89 mgCarotene:48 mgHEALTH BENEFITS OF JAMUN:The whole tree of jamun is known for its medicinal properties. It is therefore used very extensively in traditional methods of medicine like Ayurveda and Unani.
** The bark, leaves, fruit and seeds are commonly used for treatments of various disorders.** The bark of jamun has astringent, carminative, diuretic, digestive and constipating properties.** It is good for sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, thirst, dysentery, blood impurities and ulcers.** The fruits of jamun are used to prepare vinegar which is very good carminative.** The ash from burnt leaves is good for gums and teeth.** Many research studies have shown that jamun is one of the best medicines for treatment of diabetes and also other various ailments.** For diarrhea the dried powder of jamun seeds is mixed with mango seed powder and jaggery.** The paste of jamun leaves is very good to dry the pus-filled wounds.** The diabetic patient can include jamun fruit and its dried seed powder to control the blood sugar level.CLINICAL EVIDENCES FOR HEALTH BENEFITS OF JAMUNAntidiabetic activity:Fundam Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Aug;23(4):501-7.Syzygium cumini inhibits adenosine deaminase activity and reduces glucose levels in hyperglycemic patients.Bopp A, De Bona KS, Bellé LP, Moresco RN, Moretto MB.Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.AbstractSyzigium cumini (L.) Skeels from the Myrtaceae family is among the most common medicinal plants used to treat diabetes in Brazil. Leaves, fruits, and barks of S. cumini have been used for their hypoglycemic activity. Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is an important enzyme that plays a relevant role in purine and DNA metabolism, immune responses, and peptidase activity. ADA is suggested to be an important enzyme for modulating the bioactivity of insulin, but its clinical significance in diabetes mellitus (DM) has not yet been proven. In this study, we examined the effect of aqueous leaf extracts of S. cumini (L.) (ASC) on ADA activity of hyperglycemic subjects and the activity of total ADA, and its isoenzymes in serum and erythrocytes. The present study indicates that: (i) the ADA activity in hyperglycemic serum was higher than normoglycemic serum and ADA activity was higher when the blood glucose level was more elevated; (ii) ASC (60-1000 microg/mL) in vitro caused a concentration-dependent inhibition of total ADA activity and a decrease in the blood glucose level in serum; (iii) ADA1 and 2 were reduced both in erythrocytes and in hyperglycemic serum. These results suggest that the decrease of ADA activity provoked by ASC may contribute to control adenosine levels and the antioxidant defense system of red cells and could be related to the complex ADA/DPP-IV-CD26 and the properties of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors which serve as important regulators of blood glucose.