SawinShare: FRUIT ADVANTAGES FOR HUMAN-BEINGS

Known AS the “peach of the tropics,” the fruit of the cultivated mango is one of humankind's greatest triumphs in improving wild plants. In its home in India, this evergreen tree of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae) originally had a small, fibrous, plumlike fruit with the taste of turpentine.

Centuries of cultivation and selection have produced a luscious, often very colorful, fruit with a distinctive spicy flavor.

Many varieties are now grown in Florida, the Caribbean region, and elsewhere in the drier tropics and subtropics especially the mangoes in Cambodia. It is very interested to join purchasing by the people from the urban areas such as towns and cities. There are a lot of mango tree farming fields throughout Cambodia like Kandal, Kampot, Kampong Speu, Koh Kong, Battambang, Banteay Meany, Kampot, Takeo, Kampong Thom, Kratie and Kampong Cham provinces,… and in other provinces but mostly in Kandal, Kampot, Battambang…etc. Due to the mango is one of the popular fruits in Cambodia normally harvested from March to early June as the Khmer called the “Mangoes Season” around Khmer New Year Days. Mangoes look so very natural and sustainable fruits which provide us with vitamins. Mango can give us as the follows: leaves for producing fertilizer in agricultural sector, stems for producing fences, house bones, dead stems helping cook food especially we can filtrate it to make traditional medicines. For another advantages, it can provide us with shadow mixed with highly good oxygen to breath. The human-beings like taking relaxes under the mango trees because they feel comfortable and easy to breath.

During the mangoes season coming in each market in Cambodia, there are a lot of hills of mangoes delivering from various provinces throughout the country to store and display at the markets for sales like markets in Phnom Penh. There are both the red mangoes and young mangoes piled up into the hills to attract all the market walkers to look and subscribe. Even if it is so spicy but most of the people do love eating with fried fish rice, arranging it for offering monks at the pagodas and displaying all the specific ceremonies.

The fruit varies greatly in size and character: the smallest mangoes are no larger than plums, while others may weigh up to 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms). Its form is oval, round, heart-shaped, kidney-shaped, or long and slender. The single large seed is flattened, and the juicy flesh that surrounds it is yellow to orange in color. It is eaten as a main dish or as dessert and is also used in the preparation of chutneys and preserves. It is a rich source of vitamins.

GINGER

(Zingiber officinale) is a herbaceous plant probably native to Southeastern Asia and now widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate lands. The spice is made from the plant's rhizome, or underground stem. Harvesting is done simply by taking the rhizomes from the soil, cleaning them, and drying them in the sun. The dried ginger rhizomes are irregular in shape, and their color varies from dark yellow through light brown to pale buff. They are usually ground to produce the spice commonly known as ginger. The spice has a slightly biting taste and is used to flavor breads, sauces, confections, pickles, and ginger ale.

BANANA

Banana is a herbaceous plant