Morinda Citrifolia, Moringa, and Indian Mulberry are the well-known names for Noni Berry. The main crop is a tree that thrives in black lava soil in the islands of Hawaii. This tree grows and produces fruit whole year long. Transplanted and cultivated to other areas, it will only grow up in bush form and will not produce as much or as valuable a fruit as the trees in Hawaii. Noni is local to Hawaii, grow in hot, moist tropical climates, generally in black lava soil beds, along sandy, rocky, or lava-ash covered beaches, in the rich soils of shade forests, and in limestone outcrops is where we can find the Noni tree. It averages a tallness of around 30 feet. It is native typically to the Hawaiian Islands but can also be found in Polynesia, the Dominican Republic, Asia, Tahiti and the Pacific Islands. This plant comes from the Rubiaceae Family, the coffee tree family.
The Noni fruit is acknowledged as Cheese fruit because of the smell it generates when it is ripening. The Noni fruit is white with a hard skin that looks like a cross between a pineapple and a gourd. It really isn’t an attractive fruit and if you didn’t know what it was you would most likely be very unconvinced about eating it. The fruit has many seeds indoors, and is nicknamed starvation fruit because it tastes pretty terrible by itself too. Admittedly, Noni is more admired for its juice than for its fruit.
The whole Noni fruit and Noni Juice has large levels of nutritional fiber and carbohydrates. It also holds many Vitamins, such as Iron, Potassium, Vitamin A, and Calcium. Moreover, the Noni fruit contains fatty acids, polysaccharides, flavonoids, phytoestrogens, and indoids.
Non Juice has a trace element called beta-sitosterol, an anti-cholesterol component. Many health food stores carry other divisions of the plant in ground form for the making of natural herbal medicines and remedies. Various countries, like China and Japan use the flowers, fruit, bark, leaves and roots, which is mainly the whole plant in their home made remedies. They declare it is excellent for fever, eye irritations, throat and gum infections, bowel, intestine and common stomach problems and lung problems.
The Malaysians make poultices from the leaves of the Noni Plant to help in the relief of coughing, nausea, general colds and respiratory diseases. Indochineses make poultices for wrecked bones and sprains to alleviate the pain. They also claim that parts of the plant aid in lumbago and asthma.
This Queen Fruit or Canoe Fruit as it was given name by early Polynesian tribes, traveled with them where on earth they went. Because of its healing and health benefits it was one of the things those people would believe important to travel or take with them. They would consume the Noni fruit, drink the Noni juice, and use it for therapeutic purposes and save the seeds to plant.
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