Mangostin — an exotic evergreen tree which can reach height of twenty five meters. Its fruits — round, dark-violet. Under a dense inedible peel there are several segments of edible light pulp.
What мангостин on taste?
The good fruit of a mangostin has to be dense and quite big. When pressing the cover has to spring. Small fruits contain not enough myakost therefore it is better to choose mangostina of the size of small apple. If fruit to the touch firm, dry with a grid of cracks, so it became overripe. One-two weeks can be stored in the mangostina fridge in a peel. It is desirable to use the "opened" fruits at once.
To clean мангостин from an inedible peel, knife it around small then remove a peel, be careful, sticky juice leaves dark stains on fingers. Don't cut too deeply not to damage segment. By sight cleaned мангостин reminds a garlic head. This fruit possesses very pleasant thin and at the same time strong smell. Mangostina it is accepted to eat in the raw, it is desirable to cool them before the use. The taste is very light, fresh, reminds something tangerine, a lychee and ice cream. The fruit is very pulpy, in each segment there is a stone. Pulp of a mangostin creeps away under fingers. It is possible to do souffle, milkshakes, fruit salads of mangostin. The unusual taste of a mangostin is remarkably combined with shrimps and squids.
Unique properties of a mangostin
This fruit — a source of a huge number of minerals and vitamins, important for human health. Thiamine, Riboflavinum, nitrogen, magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, vitamins C, B and E contain in the mangostena in significant amounts. In the medical purposes of a mangostina apply at indigestions. Cook remarkable curative tea which perfectly helps at diarrhea from the pulp which remained on an inedible peel. Sometimes this pulp, then soak in water and add to puree which needs to be eaten each two hours before disappearance of symptoms. Mangostin use also in pharmacology, he contains a large amount of xanthans. These are recently opened by physicians chemical substances which have a number of useful pharmacological properties. They improve a condition of the immune system, maintain microbiological balance, increase the general adaptability of a human body to the adverse external environment and so on. Curiously, but мангостин at the moment is the only source of this substance which, quite perhaps, will change all ideas of various dietary food supplements.