By Yanti

Salak Fruit

Salak (Salacca zalacca) also known as snake fruit due to the reddish-brown scaly skin. Salak fruit is a type of palm tree (family Arecaceae) native to Indonesia, and also growing in Thailand and Malaysia. and have been introduced into New Guinea,  Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Ponape Island (caroline islands), and the island of Fiji. Bali is reputed to grow salaks the best in asia. Skin is thin and strong, and easily peeled

Salak is one type of palm tree about two meters high with scaly skin on the fruit bunches. Salak fruits usually developed under the shade, Salak developed under the condition of lowland tropical moist. Because of shallow root system, the palm requires high water, rain or irrigation during most years, but does not stand the flood. Yield and fruit quality in java reduced altitude above 500 m

Salak always soft yellow color and has a sweet taste as sour pineapple. Salak is not juicy which makes them especially convenient to peel and eat. Sweet taste, and are usually acidic, such as apples, but the texture can vary from very dry and crumbly to moist and crunchy. Recent innovations have a new clone, which salak pondoh is sweeter and allows the results higher.

Salak Pondoh

Salak fruit Pondoh is important in Yogyakarta province. Salak Pondoh popularity among local consumers, especially because the intensity of its aroma, which may be maturity and sweating even before the full maturation. The salak pondoh cultivar has been produced outside the province. However, the characteristic aroma of salak Pondoh not as popular among non-native consumers

Benefits salak
1. Treat defecate steadily, fresh fruit bark mixed with honey and then eaten
2. Treat heartburn stomach, same thing with the number 1, the fruit is fresh bark mixed with honey and then eaten
3. Hemorrhoids, leaf blade of 3 bay with a glass of boiled water, and drink with honey 3 times a day