Noni Fruit
What is noni fruit
Where does Noni fruit actually grow and what is the Noni plant like? The official name of the Noni plant is Morinda citrifolia. There are many different names for this plant from more commonly known Great morinda to simply Noni in Hawaii and Nono in Tahiti, Indian mulberry, and Ach in Hindi. It grows in lots of different locations hence the different names. Noni plant is a shrub or small tree and grows in Southeast Asia (this is where the Noni plant originally comes from). Since the discovery of the beneficial effects of the noni fruit the plant has been extensively spread around by humans. Now it grows in India, Pacific islands all the way to French Polynesia. Tahiti for instance is one of the most known places for Noni plant.Noni plant
Noni plant likes forests with not to much sun as well as really open places like sea shores. The plant can tolerate pretty salty soils and can live through long dry periods. Because of this it can be found in lots of different surroundings from volcanic and lava grounds to limestone areas. The plant needs around 18 months to be fully grown. A fully grown Noni plant can be up to 9 meters tall and has big dark green leaves. From then on it gives 4-8 kg of noni fruit a month all year long.Noni fruit
The fruit is what makes this plant special. Noni plant gives fruit all year long. It flowers all the time with small white flowers. Noni fruit that grows afterwards can be from 4 to 7 cm big and full of seeds. At the beginning the fruit is green but then it turns yellow and at the end almost white. Noni fruit itself has an unpleasant odor when it ripens. It stinks! Because of this odor the fruit is also called cheese fruit or vomit fruit.Because of the smell noni fruit was (is) mostly only eaten in the time of famine, when there is little other food available. People from Southeast Asia and Aborigines from Australia eat it raw with some salt or cooked with curry. You can also eat the seeds once they are roasted.
Harvesting Noni Fruit
To benefit from the fruit it needs to be properly harvested and processed. How and when noni fruit is harvested makes a lot of difference in the results you get from the fruit. Harvesting must preserve the nutrients in the fruit and also come at the right time when the levels of the polysaccharides, fatty acids, and proteins-compounds are at their highest. Only so can the fruit give its full effect. This is also one of the reasons that different Noni fruit products give different results - the fruit was harvested at different times.These were the basic facts about the noni fruit, to learn what are its benefits read the rest of this website.
