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Rubiaceae Family

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Linda Marlina

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Rubiaceae Family

Petals oval to grow into a round of chicken eggs and some have a diameter of 7.5 to 10 cm. The fruit surface as divided into polygonal cells (in terms of many) who spotted and warty. At first the fruit is green, a yellowish white before cooking. Once cooked, the color is transparent white and tender. The pulp is composed of stone fruit pyramid-shaped, red-brown. Once soft, noni fruit contains a lot of water that smells like rotten cheese. The odor arising from mixing between the acid and acid kaprik kaproat (lipid or fatty compounds that volatile molecular clusters, a nature such as essential oils) that smells rancid and caprylic acid that tastes bad. Presumably both of these compounds are active as an antibiotic. But as medicine, noni fruit is very beneficial