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Aratilis: Benefits and Uses of the Fruit

The document discusses the aratilis tree, also known as the Muntingia calabura. It is a small tree native to the Philippines with sweet fruits. The aratilis tree has various medicinal properties. Its fruits, leaves, bark, and flowers can be used for purposes like making tea, fiber, ropes, or treating stomach issues. The document also details the constituents that have been identified in extracts of the aratilis leaves and fruits, which include saponins, tannins, flavonoids, phenols, and acids. It describes a process for drying aratilis fruits to use as a souring agent.

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Aratilis: Benefits and Uses of the Fruit

The document discusses the aratilis tree, also known as the Muntingia calabura. It is a small tree native to the Philippines with sweet fruits. The aratilis tree has various medicinal properties. Its fruits, leaves, bark, and flowers can be used for purposes like making tea, fiber, ropes, or treating stomach issues. The document also details the constituents that have been identified in extracts of the aratilis leaves and fruits, which include saponins, tannins, flavonoids, phenols, and acids. It describes a process for drying aratilis fruits to use as a souring agent.

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Fernandez, Angel Anne R.

Pascua, Kristel G.

Begantiños, Eric John

Advincula, Vincent

Aratilis Tea

Muntingia Calabura commonly know as aratilis or the aratilis in the Philippines


has other local names such as aratilis is of in Bicolano and cherry panma and strawberry to
and tree in English bolanig yomanza and memizo in Spanish. Aratilis is the small three
measuring five 5 meters and to the most 10 meters high with the spreaching branches.
During play time and usually eat. No wonder but it was considered as a ready to eat food
and not only by activety when growing children but also by birds and bats for benefit of
days is generatin let us get to know more about the tree which stands witness to out eldres
to generation sweet childhood memories.

According to the aratilis one of surprising study one aratilis is an it’s anticancer
properties aratilis with the finding of a new the toxic flavonoids in Muntingia Calabura roots.
The flavonoids of were is late and most of the ratales have demonstrade cytotoxic the
activity with some exhibiting selective activity when asked the other people it is very sweet
about the aratilis threes their, common answer would be about the sweet and delicious
fruit that they usuallypide directly from the tree so if you want to they sweet aratilis in the
Philippines.

To parts of the aratilis tree can be analized for their purpose leaves can be boiled
to make tea while its bark can be used to make ropes and fiber for barkcan be used to
make ropes and fiber for bark skin. Fruits can be a processed even the flower can be
untilized as and anatisephe and to treat abdoming cromps.
The aratilis fruits or Muntingia Calabura also know as aratilis is an unpopular
fruits which is an gener of plants in the family of mentigia see its originated it in the mexico
south to bolivia of leavescan releaves __________ propate pl.

Kerson fruit muntingia calabura is a fast growing tree that has a cherry like fruit with
muntiple health benefits such a lowering blood sugar preventing cancer promoting
cardiovascular health loweringblood presure and blocking pain just to name few

The leaves are hairy sticky alternate distichous oblong ovate to broadly oblong
lanceolate 8 to 13 centimeters long with toothed margins pointed apex a inequilateral
base one side rounded and the other acute

Jamaican cherry is referred to as the muntingia calabura it is a sole specie of the


muntingia genus and is considered as flowering plant native to the countries mentioned
the fruit is small one highly resembling the size of a blueberry it comes in a green color that
turns to red when it has ripened and is ready for consumption biting into it and you will
discover a juicy tart taste with an aroma somewhat similar to cotton candy its texture
however feels like there are thousand of minute rice crispy crunchies attached to it...

Constituents

-Phytochemical analysis of various leaf extracts yieded saponin tannins and flabonoid

-Dichlormethane extract of fruit yielded squalene (1),trglyceride (2), a mixture of linoleic


acid (31) palmitic acid (3b) and a-linolenic acid (3c) and amixture of B-sitosterol (4a) and
stigmasterol (4b) (17)
-Fruit extract yielded phenols flavonoids anthocyanins tannins saponins, etc. A methanolic
fruit extract yielded 1.49 g/ content, 100g gallic acid of phonolic content 3 mg/g CE of
flavornoid and 300 ug CGE/100g fresh mass fruit of anthocyanin.(18)…

Oven is well used drying the aratilis because it provides good level and quality oven a
natural heat screen should be used that doing this process follow the following washed

Clean dirt and small insect after washing the fruits cut each of the mesh [Link] they
are property placed on screen mesh dry them in oven to the moisture of the aratilis will
evaporate well: do this9:30 in morning unti l10:00 in morning for one day after checking it
was its effectiveness ask souring agent by when tested and tasted that dry aratilis was sour
enough and could be used as a souring agent .place it on the property in a clean jor or zip
lock after this process the research can compare them with commercial sourning agents to
try which is souring dried aratilis when tested and tested that dried aratilis sweet enough
and can be used a souring agent place it properly into clean

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