Benefits Keranji acid to kill the bad cholesterol in the body

Keranji acid, Velvet tamarind, indum Dialium, is a tall tropical trees, fruit trees, southern Thailand comes from Malaysia and Indonesia. It belongs to the family Leguminosae, and small.
Because it is considered the wood hard and compact, it is an endangered species, with habitat encroached upon logging and human settlement.

Fruit flavors like tamarind, which is derived the English name. In Thailand, it is called "Luk Yee" or "Yee", and in Malaysia and Indonesia ordinary people calling the name "Keranji". The fruits are used as snack foods like candy in Thailand, often dry, sugar-coated and spiced with chili. Dried fruit has a texture powder, and orange with a sense of black tajam.Warna taste sweet like chocolate candy so much cultivated by the local community (West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan).

In Kalimantan, Indonesia are at least two varieties to be sold in the local market. Both have the same fragile thin skin black, and looks natural like fruits driest. One of the smaller type is about an inch = 25 mm long and has a light reddish-brown powder is packed around a single seed, with a small air space inside the shell. This powder tastes sweet and sour like candy "sweet-tarts", and thus closest to the acid.In Indonesia this tree flowering from November to December and bear fruit ready to be harvested between the months of January to April every 3 years.

Sour fruit is widely used as an acid food in Borneo. In Jakarta, the acid is used often sold in schools as snacks children. Fruit shape of a marble, the color of his skin if it has ripened fruit flesh colored black with brown. Sour taste but not as acidic as tamarind. But there is also a sweet, people used to call the west Kalimantan kranji fruit tart honey. It was like chocolate and honey, very tasty.

Kranji acid is also useful to kill the bad cholesterol in the body, by eating kranji acid daily 3 point.

The composition of the tamarind fruit keranji:

keranji acid (Dialium indum), separated into pulp and seeds, were analyzed for proximate composition, selected inorganic ions and vitamin C. a significant difference (P> 0.001) were observed in the value of moisture (5.9 and 4.9), organic material (97, 5 and 98.2), dry matter (94.1 and 95.1), crude protein (15.7 and 4.2), crude fat (5.4 and 2.6), ash (2.5 and 1.8) , crude fiber (6.6 and 2.2) and total carbohydrate (70.6 and 86.6) for the seeds and pulp, respectively. Hopefully, the level of ascorbic acid (P> 0.001) higher in the pulp (35.7 mg / 100g) compared to seeds (6.4 mg / 100g). Various levels of inorganic ions which have also detected. black keranji acid potentially good source of nutrients for human food and animal feed.

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