Takokak Fruit

 

Turkey berry, mini-eggplant 

Takokak with common name as Turkey berry, Mini-eggplant ; Indonesia: " pokak", " takokak", " terong pipit", "rimbang" ; the Philippines: "takapasin", "taogotan", "balbalusa"; Thailand: "makhuaphung", "makhwaeng". Turkey berry are plants of the Solanaceae tribe whose fruit and seeds are commonly used as a vegetable or spice. Turkey berry are small shrubs such as wild plants, whose height can reach up to 5 m, but most are less than 2 m. These plants are thorny and the fruit is round, in the fruit stalk are 2 to 10. The leaves are ovate with a base such as heart or rounded, with blunt ends. Leaves 7-20 cm long and 4-18 cm wide. Short stalk, often branching and more flowers. White star-shaped flowers, which are yellow in the middle.

 

Geographical distribution: Mini-eggplant is widespread in many tropical regions, South, Southeast and East Asia, In Indonesia, it grows wild in the forests of scrub and open forests. Live from the lowlands to the height of 1600 meters above sea level. The fruit can be eaten, both young and old. People at Mandailing / Tapanuli usually use a mixture of vegetable leaf mashed sweet potatoes (mashed cassava leaves), using Turkey berry common in Sundanese cuisine and treated like "Ranti (Leunca)", which is used as a salad or cooked vegetables. In Thailand, the young fruit plate brush be part of the vegetable curry are popular. People Laos and Cambodia as well take advantage of the fruit. 

 

Mini-eggplant have Chemical Ingredients and rich in various chemical constituents that are beneficial to humans. Chemical constituents that are now known to include: 1) dried fruit: solasonin 0.1%; 2) leaves: neo - chlorogenine, panicolugenin; 3) root: jurubine. 4) Raw fruit: chlorogenin, sisalogenone, torvogenin, vitamin A; Mini-eggplant have Pharmacological effects usually used in traditional medicine. The part of tree to used like: roots used for dermatosis, leave for cardiodynia and vertigo, fruit for anorexia, hypertension. 

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