Pommelo
Saturday 01 October 2016
Other Local Name :
Botanical Name : Citrus grandis
Family : Rutiaceae
Main Use : Medicine/Fruit
Other Uses : Medicine/Fruit
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Pommelo is a vitamin C rich local fruit. It is a very popular fruit in rural Bangladesh.It is known in many local dialect including Batabi lebu, Jambura or Cholom. This is a very delicious fruit. Everybody like this juicy fruit for its sour-sweet taste. It is mixed with green or dry chili and offered to someone affected with cold and fever. Vitamin C confers contraction-extention of the blood vessels. Pommelo is unique preventing non-communicable diseases including diabetes, cancer in stomach and pancreas,etc.Pommelo also increases healing power. It is effective for removing weakness and gaining convalesce.
Pommello is rich in potassium, antioxidant, Vitamin C and Vitamin B .It helps reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke. It delays aging and maintain vigor because of its rich content of Vitamin C. There is pectin in Pommelo,which prevents accumulation of contamiated substances in the blood and helps excretion of undesired items.It helps reducing cholesterol level in blood .It saves the body from heart disease related complications , prevents cancer and diabetes. Vitamin C, B present in pommelo provide nutrition for skin, hair, and teeth. Pommelo is excellent as salad as well .