Rose Apple
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Pacific Rose Apple Fruit

What is a Rose Apple?

Rose apple is known by various other names as water apple, Jamaican apple, wax Jambu, and bell fruit. This fruit is bell-shaped and can be red, yellow, or green in color. It tastes like guava, not a rose or apple, as the name says. The outside of a ripened rose apple is crisp, with a sweet and slightly bitter flavor. It has a flavor, smell, and texture that is distinct from guava or apple.

Where this fruit found?

The rose apple is native to Malaya and the East Indies.

Nutritional information:

Calories: 25
Protein: 0.6 gram
Fat: 0.4 gram
Carbohydrate: 5.7 grams
Iron: 0.39%
Magnesium: 1.25%
Manganese: 1.45%
Potassium: 3.51%
Phosphorus: 0.8%

What are its benefits?

  • Help digestion
  • Manage diabetes
  • Cleanse liver and kidney
  • Boost immunity
  • Healthy skin
  • Maintain cardiovascular health
  • Prevent cancer
  • Used in treating asthma and fever
  • Improve brain health
  • Increase cognitive abilities
  • It’s effective against epilepsy, smallpox, and joint inflammation.

How to grow rose apple?

  • The seed inside ripe food is used for planting
  • Water the saplings for one month
  • Saplings can be planted after three months
  • Proper sunlight will ensure better yield
  • Replant saplings in May and June
  • In the summer, watering is required on alternate days.
  • Water the plant once it has bloomed to receive a higher yield and larger fruits

How to include it in your diet?

  • You can eaten raw
  • Used in Jams
  • It used in Jellies
  • Used in exotic deserts

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