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Velvet apple
The Velvet Apple or Mabolo is a medium in size with regularly grown in evergreen forest and tree native to the Philippines. It produces a beautiful velvety reddish orange fruits with all the size and shape of an apple and covered with a velvet-like skin. The fruit have a pleasant mildly sweet taste, similar to a peach fruits, but it have an odor that is similar to a mild to strong cheese, that some people find unlikable. |
Appearance- Velvet Tree or Mabolo is native to Philippines. It is also known as Peach Bloom in India, or Sagalat in Malaysia. The Velvet apple is also known as Mabola, is closely connected to the persimmon fruit family. About the size and shape of an apple, with mildly sweet flavored, somewhat mealy, flesh. The red coloured fruits are highly esteemed in some areas, but hardly known in most parts of the world. Native to the Phillipines only.
Taste-The Velvet apple fruit is an oval and rounded fruit in structure with little flat in shape. Varieties of colour of velvet apple is found to taste and its taste is like a pleasant mildly sweet taste , creamy flesh has a sub acid flavor and an aroma that is sometimes cheeselike. Eaten fresh with sweet and used in all desserts.. It have a persimmon fruit like taste and it very pleasant to eat fleshy. Mostly phillipine's have know more about their taste and the remedy of the fruits. |
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Uses of Mabolo Plant and Fruits |
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There are a number of uses of mabolo plant and fruits, for the reason that of its commercial value. It is a very useful plant in apple varieties, it contains nutritional benefits and medicinal functions as well. The parts of the mabolo plants for this purpose are the leaves, bark, and the roots. Its bark is being exploit in such a manner with the purpose of it is being decocted and prepared to attend to skin ailments like eczema, fever and cough.
Now, Uses of fruit can be varied to country to country. For example, in countries in the Southeast Asia, diarrhea and dysentery are being medicine for extracting the juice of the unripe mabolo fruit. In Bangladesh, preparations of the mabolo leaves and bark are being used as cleanser, mainly as eyewash and also used as an solution for snakebites. It is alsoused for mabolo preparations function to address heart ailment and hypertension |
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Velvet apple VarietiesClick on the below Velvet-apple you wish to find about
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The various Velvet apple Fruits are distinguished as botanical species rather than as cultivars. The following are those most utilized for food:
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Several species of the genus Ebenaceae family have edible fruits, all of them with constant
four-fold sepals.It is possibly the best known is the sweet and mildly flavored persimmon, which is grown in large amounts in the subtropics. The less known mabolo or velvet apple,, is a close relative and a more perfumed so. A fairly cheese-like odor is specified from the velvety skin but is absent in the soft white flesh which has a rich banana-apple-like flavor.
The fruit squash of mabolos grown in Cuba and found them to be characterize by many esters, mostly benzyl butyrate (33.9 %), butyl butyrate (12.5 %) and (E)-cinnamyl butyrate (6.8 %) [224]. |
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Diospyros blancoi or Kamagong is a plant directly related to the ebony tree and the persimmon family. It is edible fruit has a skin covered in a fine, velvety fruit which is usually reddish-brown, and soft, creamy, pink flesh, with a taste and smell comparable to fruit cream cheese the smell of the fruit is unpleasant, comparable to decomposed cheese or cat feces moving names like the french "Caca de Chat" in gathering. It is native to the Philippines with it is a tree known as Kamagong. |
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Nutrition of Velvet apple |
Current Facts:
The average calorie value of an velvet apple is anywhere between 70 and 80 calories with approximately 20 grams of carbohydrate and 15 grams of acid molecules. Velvet Apples are rated short on the glycemic index which means they supply a steady stream of sugar to the blood rather than a sudden point. Other apple nutrition facts point to that apples are a good source of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C. They also hold small amounts of iron, calcium and phosphorus.
As among all fruits and vegetables, vitamins are rigorous in the skin, so you will get more nutrition from the Velvet apple if you eat it skin and all, but even if you don’t like the skin, the apple is still packed with nutrition, so eat it anyway with or without the skin.
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Medicinal Uses of Velvet apple |
Medicinal Uses :
- Decoction of howl and leaves are used for skin problems. You can either drink or transfer the tea on your bath water.
- Decoction of howl is used as a remedy for cough.
Culinary Uses :
It is eaten fresh, as a dessert and for making drinks.
Other usest
Use for making wooden combs and utensils. |
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Nutrition Value for Velvet apple |
Fruit comparison tables. Overview of vitamin and mineral content including nutrition charts of the Velvet apple.
| Nutritive value per 100 g of Velvet apple |
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Nutritive value |
| Fat |
0.22-0.38 g |
| Protein |
0.75 g |
| Sugar |
11.47 g |
| Potassium |
303 mg |
| Sodium |
110mg |
| Carbohydrates |
5.49-6.12 g |
| Fiber |
0.74-1.76 g |
| Calories |
504 |
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Velvet apple Recipe
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Red Velvet Cake Recipe |

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Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, presifted
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 bottle red food coloring
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
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Method:
Cream mutually the shortening and sugar. Add eggs, single at a time, beating after adding each egg. Alternate adding flour and buttermilk, mixing on medium until mix together. In a separate bowl, mix the cocoa, vanilla, and food coloring. Then fill up the food coloring bottle with water and add the water to the mix. Add this to the Red Velvet cake batter. Dissolve the baking soda and vinegar in a small bowl. Add to the cake batter and mix.
Pour the Red Velvet cake beat into two greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. |
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Velvet Apple Bubble Bath Recipe |
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Ingredients:
- 5 drops green apple fragrance
- 1 quart (4 cups) distilled water
- 1 (4oz) bar castille soap (humectant) (grated or flaked), you can also use 1 cup unscented shampoo as an alternative to the castille soap.
- 1 1/2 ounces liquid glycerin (skin moisturizer)
- 5 drops green food coloring (optional)
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Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together. Store in a container. Pour in running water |
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