What Is Noni?
Noni is a fruit that grows on a small evergreen tree with large, waxy, dark green leaves.
The fruit is oval shaped, has a bumpy surface, and is about the size of a potato. A noni starts as a dark green and hard fruit. As it ripens, the color turns yellow, then yellowish-white, to almost clear. The fruit becomes soft, and inside are many dark seeds.
As noni ripens, the fruit smells and tastes like cheese. The smell of a very ripe and soft noni is pungent and can stay on your skin even after washing it off. Once I rubbed noni all over my arms, chest, and face because I thought it would be beneficial for my skin. I had the smell of noni on me for a long while.
Noni is a canoe plant. This means noni was brought to the Hawaii islands thousands of years ago by Polynesian voyagers traveling in canoes. Canoe plants, such as noni, were brought by the voyagers to plant at the new places they came to. Polynesian people have used all the parts of the noni tree (fruit, leaves, bark, and roots) for food and medicine for more than two thousand years.
Noni grows near and along the coast where I live. Noni grows out of the rocky ground and old lava flows. Salt air blows on the trees and they are fine. Noni also grows inland along the edges of the moist tropical forest. This morning I walked down the road and picked up two noni off the ground.
Noni fruit provides your body water, fiber, vitamin C, and potassium.
Noni contains more than a hundred plant compounds. (A compound is a substance made of two or more elements. Water is a compound, made of hydrogen and oxygen.) Several of the compounds in noni have been shown to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. The effects of noni have been seen in laboratories. There is little research about what happens in a person who eats noni.
I first learned about noni from people in Hawaii who would leave a ripe noni in a covered jar and collect the juice that leaks out. The juice would be used to take noni shots or mixed with other things to make noni juice. A ripe noni breaks down on its own, and the juice separates out without pressing or using any force.
You are welcome to try noni.
Stacy 🌺
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