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Rambutan: Eat the Flesh, Skip the Raw Seed
Rambutan · เงาะ · Nephelium lappaceum
Rambutan — เงาะ (ngo) — Nephelium lappaceum.
Rambutan — ngaw — sweet, translucent fruit under soft red-and-green hairs, plus how to eat it and which parts to skip. The name points to the hairy skin; you eat the flesh around the seed and discard the leathery peel and the raw seed, which references treat as unsafe unless roasted. The flesh carries vitamin C, with trace copper and manganese. Vitamin C helps build collagen and acts as an antioxidant; copper helps the body use iron and supports normal energy production; manganese helps form bone and feeds enzymes behind energy metabolism and antioxidant defense. An immune study used a peel extract in mice. In the kitchen, kaeng khua mu sam chan sai ngo simmers sweet rambutan into a coconut red curry with pork belly over jasmine rice, while ngo loi kaeo chills seedless halves in pandan syrup as a cold course after a spicy meal. Growing one? Mulch the base, since the surface roots dry out fast. Follow Longevity Biome for a new Thai plant every day.
Kaeng Khua Mu Sam Chan Sai Ngo — แกงคั่วหมูสามชั้นใส่เงาะ (gaeng-khua-moo-sam-chan-sai-ngo)
Ngo Loi Kaeo — เงาะลอยแก้ว (ngo-loy-kaew)
Source: Immune-enhancing effect of rambutan fruit-peel ethanol extract in mice. Trop J Nat Prod Res 7(9). DOI:10.26538/tjnpr/v7i9.28
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Food and nutrients
Rich in: vitamin C, copper, manganese
Research context
Rambutan peel extract boosted immune-cell activity in mice — Trop. J. Natural Product Research, 2023