Rambutan Can Improve Male Sperm Quality and Anticancer

Almost across Indonesia, especially in Java, Sumantra, Borneo you will be able to find the rambutan fruit. In addition to its attractive and tastes good rambutan fruit turned out to save a lot of benefits for human health.

Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum Linn) is a fruit crop that originated from Indonesia and Malaysia, then spread to other tropical areas such as the Philippines and Latin American countries. Rambutan plants are also found in temperate subtropical mainland.


Rambutan is usually consumed directly, that is enjoyed as fresh fruit. Rambutan fruit can also be processed into confectionery, canned fruit, mix cocktails, dessert, or fruit salad. Not only flesh, seeds can also be utilized. In the Philippines, rambutan fruit seeds are usually roasted and served as a side dish. Seeds of rambutan fruit is famous for the content of tannin and saponinnya very beneficial to the body.

Source of Vitamins, Minerals, Fiber, and Sugar
Rambutan is a source of vitamin C is very good. Rambutan fruit fruit-yield relatively high vitamin C, one class with an orange that has been known widely as a source of vitamin C.

Rambutan is derived from dried sweet aceh type is a source of vitamin C is best, reaching 71.24 mg per 100 g of edible flesh, which means in compliance with 118.7 percent of the body's vitamin C every day.

Besides vitamin C, rambutan fruit also contains other vitamins such as niacin, thiamin, and riboflavin. The minerals contained in many rambutan is potassium, calcium, iron, and phosphorus. Fiber content of food is also quite high, ie 2.8 g per 100 g of fruit flesh.

Rambutan fruits contain various types of sugar. Types and levels of sugar per 100 g of fruit flesh is glucose (2.8 g), fructose (3.0 g), and sucrose (9.9 g). In addition, rambutan fruit also contains an acid, such as malic acid and citric acid, each with levels of 0.05 and 0.31 g per 100 g. The combination of sugar and acids that cause tersebutlah rambutan has a fresh sweetness.

Improve Sperm Quality and anticancer
Vitamin C is known as the main compounds the body needs in a variety of important processes, ranging from the manufacture of collagen (fibrous protein that forms connective tissue in bones), fat transport, electron transport from various enzymatic reactions, hyper healthy gums, regulating cholesterol levels, and hyper the immune system.

Foods rich in vitamin C will help to prevent various types of cancers, including lung cancer, colon, pancreas, bladder, and breast. Vitamin C may also reduce free radicals which trigger cancer, because these vitamins are antioxidants good. Vitamin C is also very essential for the formation of sperm.

Lack of vitamin C in men can be inhibited in obtaining offspring. Improvements to this requires a period of one month by increasing vitamin C intake of 500 milligrams. The quality and quantity of sperm and its activities can be enhanced by increasing the consumption of vitamin C.

Other benefits of vitamin C reduces the risk of cataracts, strengthening blood capillary walls, and minimize the risk of heart disease. Researchers believe that vitamin C can also inhibit aging by keeping the white blood cells.

Levels of vitamin C a few varieties of rambutan
Type of rambutan - Levels of vitamin C (mg/100 g pulp):
Aceh dried sweet 71.24
Lebak fleeced - 56.68
Silengkeng - 49.82
Aceh pao-pao - 42.62
Sinyonya - 40.63
Aceh crisp - 39.00
Aceh 6B-38.51
Aceh padang months - 38.00
Seed-37.43
Aceh bald - 34.10
Aceh yellow - 31.75
Sitangkuebb-b29, 00
Simacan - 27.80
Binjai - 22.34
Aceh fat - 20.80
Rupiahs Aceh - 20.71
Source: Baga Kalie et al