Ice Cream Bean Tree

Food and health uses

•  The edible white pulp of the fruits can be eaten out of hand or used in flavoring various desserts

• In Mexico, the seeds are roasted and sold outside theaters to moviegoers

• The Seeds can also be eaten as vegetables

• Decoctions of the leaves and bark are used in folk medicine as astringent, a diarrhea aid, and as a lotion for arthritis, while the fruit and bark used for dropsy and irritations of the lining of the intestines.

• Cuna Indians used the plant as a nervine for headaches

More information

• Purdue University

• Wikipedia