Jering

Jering Benefits | Archidendron Pauciflorum 

By Yanti

Jering (Archidendron pauciflorum, or Pithecellobium jiringa} is a plant of the leguminous tribe of the Fabaceae family and genus Archidendron. Jering or are also called by jengkol came from Southeast Asia and into the food quite liked many people in the State of Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.

Jering tree grows up to 10 m height to 26 meters. Jering shaped fruit pods, flattened and twisted like a spiral within a spiral which is usually contained 5 to 7 jering fruit with a shiny brown color. Jering fruit has a thin epidermis. Fruit jering old at the time would be convex with the pods that contain fruit jering will enlarge its size.

Jering fruit has a texture that is soft and tender because it’s many people in Southeast Asia jengkol fruit like this. Jengkol fruit, especially if eaten raw will cause a bad odor in the urine smell like a petai  but with a lighter level. Actually smell the jering this can be alleviated by boiling or soaking  the fruit jering. Another way relieve the smell of fruit jering in urine by rinsing with water a number of urinals at the time before and after urinating

Jengkol fruit eaten raw or in addition to fresh, jering also treated before it is eaten as a stew formed by those who are called Sundanese with a tiger heart or buttons Levis because of its round buttons like Levis pants. Another form is made of jering and can be consumed is to be processed into chips by the mashed fruit jengkol until flat and then fried the jering in hot oil.

Jering nutrition

Although eating jering will cause odor, but it turns out jering contained in a variety of nutrients that are beneficial to human health such as protein, carbohydrate, vitamins A, B complex, C, alkaloids, calcium, phosphorus, essential oils, glycosides, steroid saponins, and tannins.

Jering Benefits

The several nutrition in jering fruit provide several jering benefits and some of them as below

• High protein content in jering provide benefits to assist the growing and caring of body process and useful also to build hormones, enzymes, and immune body.
• The content of vitamin C in jengkol  which jengkol in 100 grams contains 80 mg of vitamin C that is useful as an antioxidant that helps the body to be  more immune to various diseases.
• Calcium content in jengkol useful to bring up and maintain healthy teeth and bones and helps the body’s biological processes.
• Iron content in jering useful to prevent the body from disease anemia where people affected by the disease itself can cause anemia are susceptible to infection, fatigue, weakness, pale, less passionate, irritability, headache, difficulty in swallowing the tongue, and so on
• The content of phosphorus contained in jering beneficial to the establishment of teeth and bones, as well as to store and release energy.

Although there are many benefits to the health of the body by jering consumption but there is also a negative effect if consumed in large quantities jering disrupt a individual’s health that is caused by a high content of jengkolat acid which is badly soluble in water so that the accrual of crystals in urinary tract, which is called jengkolan, it will disturb the process of urination. Jengkolan Effect of consuming excessive jering will vary for each person who is affected by environmental conditions and their genetic.