Anak manggis

Anak means baby, so by "anak manggis", I'm referring to the baby plant of the manggis tree.  Oh, "manggis" of course mangosteen.  We found a nursery that sells the anak manggis last weekend near Karak,(view in Google map), a small town in the district of Bentong, Pahang. The nursery doen't have many of the baby plants. I bought 4 plants.  Not sure where to plant them yet.  The nursery owner said, the plant could grow and bear fruits in 3 years.  I really hope so. They are really grafted plants.



Unfortunately, one of them "died", dried up probably due to the hot weather, few days ago.     Sob, sob. Now I need to find a place for the three to grow.

Preparing the Mangosteen Juice

Check this site for a video and some references on the benefit of mangosteen.  
http://livingbyheart.tripod.com/xresearch/id71.html  Though, this site sound like an advertisement for the commercial product, I do found a lot of scientific research papers about this fruit.  Just google "mangosteen diabetic" for example with Google Scholar, you get hundreds of resources. 
Below are the slide show of the pictures in the process of making the juice from the fruit skin or the pericarp by me.


I'm not a good narrator, so I hope the pictures will help. What I did was just boil the pericarp (after eating the white sweet & sour inside part of the fruit) for about 2 hours. And, you know, the seed taste good too. Very crunchy. I ate them all.
After boiling, I left it for the night for the suspended particles to settle down. The juice was sieved then transferred into a bottle (not in the photos). (TBC)

About mangosteen

Dear friends,
I would like to share with you what I know and doing with this great fruit.

From Wikipedia, "The Purple Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), colloquially known simply as "the mangosteen", is a tropical evergreen tree, believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. The tree grows from 7 to 25 m (20–80 ft) tall. The rind (exocarp) of the edible fruit is deep reddish purple when ripe. Botanically an aril, the fragrant edible flesh can be described as sweet and tangy, citrusy with peach flavor and texture. "

I would add more information to this post in a few days. I'm taking this fruits for my diabetic alternative treatment. I'm a bad diabetic. I was introduce to this, by my uncle who was a fruit seller at Shah Alam. I'll share with you, how I make this fruit into my daily drinks. So, stay on.

First, this fruit is not cheap.  I just bought a kilo last nite for RM9.  I got hardly 12-15 small fruits for that.  If you really want to eat it and enjoy eating it, you need to find a tree.  There are many you can find in a malay kampong.  I use to climb this tree and eat the fruits right on the branches.  Really missed the time.  Last Saturday I bought 4 baby plants.  I'm planning to plant them somewhere, don't know where yet.

Reference from Wikipedia
1) Mangostin is a natural organic compound ...