Editor’s comments: Add durian to your diet because durian’s a fruit provided by nature. This fruit carries all the nutrients most fruits offer; however, durian’s also contain 33% fat, which is high compared to other fruit. As mentioned in a previous article, it was explained how the consumption of over 10% of daily calories as fat is detrimental to ones health regardless of source, just as too much water will drown you. The human organism only requires 10% of less of fat in our daily diet. We function on whole, simple carbohydrates. When you eat durian, be sure to wait until it opens on its own. It will open up for you to pry open when it is ripe. Have durian in moderation due to its high levels of fat. Life is easy.
Durian is a fruit that grows in Southeast Asia and has strong odor.
Durian fruit helps lower cholesterol The nutritional and metabolic indices in rats fed cholesterol-containing diets supplemented with durian at different stages of ripening.
The aim of this investigation was to assess the nutritional and health properties of Mon Thong durian cultivar at different stages of ripening. The assessment was carried out in vitro and in vivo. The contents of dietary fibers, minerals and trace metals at different stages of ripening were comparable. Total polyphenols and flavonoids in ripe durian were significantly higher than in mature and overripe.
Antioxidant capacity in total polyphenol extracts of ripe durian were significantly higher than that of mature and overripe samples. Then 35 male Wistar rats were divided into 5 dietary groups each of 7 and named Control, Chol, Chol/Mature, Chol/Ripe and Chol/Overripe. During 30 days of the experiment the rats of all 5 groups were fed basal diet (BD), which included wheat starch, casein, soybean oil, vitamin and mineral mixtures.
The rats of the Control group were fed a BD only. To the BD of the Chol group was added 1% of cholesterol. The BD of the Chol/Mature, Chol/Ripe and Chol/Overripe groups was supplemented with 1% of cholesterol and 5% of the mature, ripe and overripe durian as freeze-dried powder, respectively.
Diets containing ripe and to a lesser degree mature and overripe durian significantly hindered the rise in plasma lipids and also hindered a decrease in plasma antioxidant activity. Ripe durian contains higher quantity of bioactive compounds, has higher antioxidant capacity and nutritional value. It positively affects the plasma lipid profile, the plasma glucose and the antioxidant activity in rats fed cholesterol enriched diets.
Therefore, the ripe durian supplemented diet could be beneficial for patient suffering from hypercholesterolemia and diabetes mellitus.
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Biofactors. 2007;29(2-3):123-36. Leontowicz M, Leontowicz H, Jastrzebski Z, Jesion I, Haruenkit R, Poovarodom S, Katrich E, Tashma Z, Drzewiecki J, Trakhtenberg S, Gorinstein S. Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland.
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