Melinjo (Gnetum gnemon Linn.)

You certainly curious about this one fruit. Yes, fruit baguk, or that the Minangkabau language (the desert) call with baguak fruit is actually a fruit (or seed?) Melinjo. The Latin name baguk fruit or melinjo is Gnetum gnemon Linn or in Sundanese also called Tangil.

In general, these plants live in the tropics and is the type species of seed plants open. For in Indonesia itself baguk widely planted in pekarang which usually functioned as a shade and can also be used either fruit or leaves.

Of Gnetum other variants, it is indeed shaped melinjo distinguish the varieties of trees in the family Gnetum. Baguk itself is very rare for intensively cultivated. When in fact the wood can be used as a board and also a tool for simple household purposes.

While the young leaves can be used for vegetables, and fruit baguk itself can be used as raw material for chips. For the nutritional content of baguk itself based research can produce an antioxidant compound.

Wherein each fruit contains antioxidant activity baguk about 9-10 percent is derived from the protein concentration is high enough. Where is the main protein has a size of 30 kilo Dalton serves to eliminate free radicals that cause of various diseases.

Not only that, baguk fruit also contains a natural antimicrobial. Thus meaning that the protein is in the womb baguk fruit can be used as a natural food preservative and as a drug of peyakit caused by bacteria.

In addition peptides have been isolated from the fruit baguk active potential to inhibit some types of bacteria.