Wow! can you believe that this fruit is better than chemotherapy? Where was this information when my dad had cancer?
Soursop Fruit
The soursop tree is low-branching and bushy but slender because of its upturned limbs, and reaches a height of 25 or 30 ft (7.5-9 m). Young branchlets are rusty-hairy. The malodorous leaves, normally evergreen, are alternate, smooth, glossy, dark green on the upper surface, lighter beneath; oblong, elliptic or narrowobovate, pointed at both ends, 2 1/2 to 8 in (6.25-20 cm) long and 1 to 2 1/2 in (2.5-6.25 cm) wide. The flowers, which are borne singly, may emerge anywhere on the trunk, branches or twigs. They are short stalked, 1 1/2 to 2 in (4 5 cm) long, plump, and triangular-conical, the 3 fleshy, slightly spreading, outer petals yellow-green, the 3 close-set inner petals pale-yellow.
The fruit is more or less oval or heart-shaped, some times irregular, lopsided or curved, due to improper carper development or insect injury. The size ranges from 4 to 12 in (10-30 cm) long and up to 6 in (15 cm) in width, and the weight may be up to 10 or 15 lbs (4.5-6.8 kg). The fruit is compound and covered with a reticulated, leathery-appearing but tender, inedible, bitter skin from which protrude few or many stubby, or more elongated and curved, soft, pliable “spines”. The tips break off easily when the fruit is fully ripe. The skin is dark-green in the immature fruit, becoming slightly yellowish-green before the mature fruit is soft to the touch. Its inner surface is cream-colored and granular and separates easily from the mass of snow-white, fibrous, juicy segments—much like flakes of raw fish—surrounding the central, soft-pithy core. In aroma, the pulp is somewhat pineapple-like, but its musky, subacid to acid flavor is unique. Most of the closely-packed segments are seedless. In each fertile segment there is a single oval, smooth, hard, black seed, l/2 to 3/4 in (1.25-2 cm) long; and a large fruit may contain from a few dozen to 200 or more seeds.
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Wow, di ko alam nu ah! But now I know. and i totally agree with you, health is wealth. Musta ka na?
Just dropping by to say hello dearie.
This info is very famous here…
How i wish i could also benefit like others do… i went thru thabsu a yr ago…biopsy revealed i have juvenile granulosa tumor…no class no stage…since then monitoring of CA 125 started..i never went on chemo therapy since my Doctor said i don’t need such treatment…can the fruit-soursop help me maintain a good CA125 level?
Well Gina what the fruit does as it pertains to cancer is that it helps destroy and maintain control of the mutating cancer cells. I am not a professional physician so I cannot promise that it will help in controlling your CA125 but I can say it has been proven rather effective with cancer prevention, so it definitely worth a shot.