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Burmese Grape (Mafai): The Sweet-Sour Trunk Fruit
Burmese Grape · มะไฟ · Baccaurea ramiflora
Burmese Grape — มะไฟ (ma-fai) — Baccaurea ramiflora.
The round fruits grow in clusters straight off the trunk; crack the leathery skin and a translucent, sweet-sour aril slips off the seed. Each aril carries vitamin C, potassium, and iron. You eat only that pulp — the seeds and peel get spat out. You eat mafai by the handful, straight off the cluster — crack the leathery skin and the sweet-sour flesh slips right off the seed. Bright, tart, and gone in a mouthful, it is a hot-season snack Thais grew up grazing on.
Mafai Jim Phrik Kap Kluea — มะไฟจิ้มพริกเกลือ (ma-fai-jim-prik-kluea)
Mafai Chuam — มะไฟเชื่อม (ma-fai-chuam)
Source: Sadia H et al. (2018). Screening of Baccaurea ramiflora extracts for cytotoxic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, neuropharmacological and antidiarrheal activities (in mice / in vitro). BMC Complement Altern Med. PMID 29378554. Leaf rosmarinic acid / anti-inflammatory: Antioxidants (Basel) 2014, PMID 26785243.
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Food and nutrients
Rich in: Vitamin C, potassium, iron
Research context
Mafai's pain and anti-inflammatory studies used seed-and-peel extracts in mice; the aril you eat is a sweet-sour vitamin-C fruit — BMC Complement Altern Med, 2018