Longevity Biome playlist

Tropical Fruits

Tropical fruits in the Longevity Biome atlas — mango, mangosteen, durian, rambutan, dragon fruit, longan and dozens more, with how to pick, eat, and grow each.

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Wax Apple: The Crisp Pink Bell You Eat Whole

Wax Apple: The Crisp Pink Bell You Eat WholeWax Apple / Rose Apple

Don't Toss Mandarin Peel — Thai Cooks Dry It

Don't Toss Mandarin Peel — Thai Cooks Dry ItStudied for blood lipids

Sweet Tamarind Lowered Cholesterol in Animals

Sweet Tamarind Lowered Cholesterol in AnimalsStudied for cholesterol

Namwa Banana: Green for Cooking, Ripe for Cake

Namwa Banana: Green for Cooking, Ripe for CakeStudied for the stomach lining

Breadfruit: The Tree Fruit Thais Cook Like a Potato

Breadfruit: The Tree Fruit Thais Cook Like a PotatoThe starchy tree fruit Thai cooks fry into chips and candy in coconut syrup

Burmese Grape (Mafai): The Sweet-Sour Trunk Fruit

Burmese Grape (Mafai): The Sweet-Sour Trunk FruitThe sweet-sour Thai fruit that clusters straight off the trunk

Calamansi: The Thai Citrus Too Sour to Bite

Calamansi: The Thai Citrus Too Sour to BiteCalamansi

Cempedak: The Jackfruit Cousin Thai Cooks Deep-Fry

Cempedak: The Jackfruit Cousin Thai Cooks Deep-FryThe custardy jackfruit cousin southern Thai cooks batter and fry

Coconut: The Aromatic Kind With a Pandan Scent

Coconut: The Aromatic Kind With a Pandan ScentMCTs & cognitive longevity

Sugar Apple Flesh Is Edible; Its Seeds Are Toxic

Sugar Apple Flesh Is Edible; Its Seeds Are ToxicSugar Apple / Custard Apple

Dragon Fruit Grows on a Night-Blooming Cactus

Dragon Fruit Grows on a Night-Blooming CactusStudied for gut bacteria

Durian Seeds: Boil or Roast Them Before Eating

Durian Seeds: Boil or Roast Them Before EatingA source of antioxidants

Guava & Lower Cholesterol: A 12-Week Trial

Guava & Lower Cholesterol: A 12-Week TrialStudied for cholesterol

Indian Gooseberry (Amla): LDL Fell in a Trial

Indian Gooseberry (Amla): LDL Fell in a TrialStudied for cholesterol

Jackfruit Fiber Fed Gut Bacteria in Lab Tests

Jackfruit Fiber Fed Gut Bacteria in Lab TestsA source of gut-feeding fiber

Jujube Seed Calmed Mice in One Study

Jujube Seed Calmed Mice in One StudyThai Milk Jujube

Langsat Seed Limonoids: An Antimalarial Lab Study

Langsat Seed Limonoids: An Antimalarial Lab StudyLongkong / Langsat

Longan Improved Memory Scores in Mice

Longan Improved Memory Scores in MiceLongan

Lychee Polyphenols Cut Liver Fat in One Trial

Lychee Polyphenols Cut Liver Fat in One TrialLychee

Madan: The Thai Fruit Too Sour to Eat Raw

Madan: The Thai Fruit Too Sour to Eat RawThe green fruit too sour to eat raw, used to sour Thai soups

Mango: A Sweet Cousin of Poison Ivy

Mango: A Sweet Cousin of Poison IvyA source of antioxidants

Mangosteen Studies Use the Rind You Throw Away

Mangosteen Studies Use the Rind You Throw AwayMangosteen

Maprang Seed Extract Slowed Bacteria in the Lab

Maprang Seed Extract Slowed Bacteria in the LabMarian Plum / Maprang

Papaya Carries Its Own Meat-Tenderizing Enzyme

Papaya Carries Its Own Meat-Tenderizing EnzymeA source of papain enzyme

Rambutan: Eat the Flesh, Skip the Raw Seed

Rambutan: Eat the Flesh, Skip the Raw SeedRambutan

Pineapple Bromelain in Human Pain Trials

Pineapple Bromelain in Human Pain TrialsA source of bromelain

Pomelo Peel Packs the Citrus Flavonoids

Pomelo Peel Packs the Citrus FlavonoidsA source of citrus flavonoids

Mulberry Leaf Softened a Post-Meal Sugar Spike

Mulberry Leaf Softened a Post-Meal Sugar SpikeMay steady blood sugar

Pomegranate Juice Lowered Blood Pressure in Trials

Pomegranate Juice Lowered Blood Pressure in TrialsJuice trials lowered blood pressure

Sugar Palm: The Jelly Seeds Behind Palm Sugar

Sugar Palm: The Jelly Seeds Behind Palm SugarSugar Palm (Palmyra)

Otaheite Gooseberry Leaf Slowed a Carb Enzyme

Otaheite Gooseberry Leaf Slowed a Carb EnzymeOtaheite Gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)

Lime Citrate and Kidney Stones: What Trials Show

Lime Citrate and Kidney Stones: What Trials ShowMay lower stone recurrence

Sapodilla: The Fruit That Gave Us Chewing Gum

Sapodilla: The Fruit That Gave Us Chewing GumSapodilla

Santol: Sour Thai Fruit Pounded With Chili

Santol: Sour Thai Fruit Pounded With ChiliSantol / Cotton Fruit

Salak: Snake-Skin Fruit With Sweet-Tart Cloves

Salak: Snake-Skin Fruit With Sweet-Tart ClovesSalak / Snake Fruit

Star Fruit & Kidney Disease: A Real Danger

Star Fruit & Kidney Disease: A Real DangerStar Fruit / Carambola

Passion Fruit Peel Studied for Insulin

Passion Fruit Peel Studied for InsulinStudied for insulin

Sugarcane: Chew the Sweet Stalk, Spit the Fiber

Sugarcane: Chew the Sweet Stalk, Spit the FiberChewing Sugarcane

Thai Hog Plum: The Sour Fruit In Som Tam

Thai Hog Plum: The Sour Fruit In Som TamThe sour green fruit Thai cooks pound into som tam

Java Plum: The Fruit That Stains Your Tongue Purple

Java Plum: The Fruit That Stains Your Tongue PurpleThe tongue-staining purple fruit of a giant Thai tree

Soursop: Spiny Green Skin, Custardy White Flesh

Soursop: Spiny Green Skin, Custardy White FleshThe spiny green fruit with soft, custardy white flesh