Starfruit

Food and health uses

• • Fruit is edible and has various culinary uses.

• Juice of the more acidic sour types of starfruit can be used to clean rusty or tarnished metal.

• Starfruit had numerous medicinal uses. Various preparations of the fruit, its juice, leaves, bark, flowers, inner bark, root and seeds have been used to treat various ailments including: hemorrhage, fever, eye afflictions, eczema, vomiting, headache, chicken pox, ringworm, dermatitis, asthma and colic.

• It has also been used as a diuretic, vermifuge, galactagogue and emmenagogue. 

More information

• Purdue University

• Wikipedia

• University of Hawaii

• National Tropical Botanical Garden

• USDA Plant Database