(Source: Jawa Pos, Monday, March 25, 2013, p.13)Compared with carrots and oranges.Mangosteen is believed to come from Sumatra. It is said that originally he grew up in the Jambi. Plants are grown in the rain forest is perfect and it took 10 years to bear fruit. In recent decades, many researchers highlight plants. Not to be used as a base for the manufacture of plywood, but to know the efficacy of the fruit skin.Unlike other fruits, mangosteen greatest benefit lies not in the flesh, but in the skin. In the so-called pericarp rind that the presence of xanthone, a high level of antioxidants. Its value reaches 17000-20000 orac per ounce leather, bigger than carrot and orange only 300 and 2,400.What is an antioxidant? Antioxidant is a compound that can counteract the negative effects of free radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules that the loss of electrons. For stable, it will take electrons from other cells in the human body. Making
processes that cause damage to cells that trigger the emergence of
generative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and others.Active compounds called xanthone was formed from old pieces a month after the flowers bloom. At that level of xanthone 14.67 mg / g and increased with the age of fruit. Age four months whereof 15.68 mg / g and a 34.36 mg / g when the fruit is stored for up to four weeks after picking.Now, the mangosteen growing range of products, such as juice and food supplement. In 2006, in the United States processed mangosteen products into the 22 products with the highest sales. In Japan, developed a mixture of xanthone extracts product for breast cancer chemotherapy. As antibacterial and antifungal, xanthone investigated by Suksamran, as an antiviral by Chen, Vlientinck, and Ignatushchenko. Also, it developed as an anti-inflammatory by Nakatani, as antileukimia by Matsumo, as well as anticancer by Jamil Ersam, and as a general remedy by Martin, Kanchanapoom, Nakasone, and Paul.Kasma Iswari of BPTP West Sumatra researching how to process them. Major universities involved in the field a lot. Xanthones as an anti-inflammatory investigated by the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tohoku, Japan, 2002. Xanthones also be investigated as antiaterosklerosis by the Department of Pharmacy, University of Andalas, Padang, the prevention of diabetes by the Faculty of Medicine, University of California, the United States, and as anticancer by Mahindon University, Thailand, 2004. Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, Japan and The National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taiwan, did not want to miss.Now, the technology already exists in Indonesia. Products that have been circulating in pharmacies and stores leading drug stores in your city, in the form of capsules. His name is Garcia. While xanthone is the name of the substance they contain.
