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 Quenepas: Health benefits and nutritional value


Quenepas has a very good nutritional value and it has innumerable health benefits. Health benefits of quenepas include lowering of high blood pressure, high blood sugar, aiding in weight loss, strengthening bones, treating insomnia, boosting immunity, promoting digestion and many more health benefits.


What is Quenepas?


Do you know what is quenepas? Have you ever heard about this fruit? The scientific name of Quenepas is Melicoccus bijugatus.


Quenepas is an edible fruit producing tree and it belongs to the family called Sapindaceae, which is commonly known as soapberry family. They belong to the same family to which litchee, longan, and rambutan fruit trees belong    


It is native to the regions like South America, central America, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, St. Kitts, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican republic, and some regions of the Caribbean islands.


The fruits of quenepas have green colored leathery skin. The pulp of the quenepas fruit is very fleshy and has the color of salmon. The quenepas fruits are sold during the summer months and people wait eagerly to consume the delicious quenepas fruits.


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