Vendors are selling mangosteen on bicycles on streets in Ho Chi Minh City these days. Their price is VND20,000 per kilo.
The delicious fruit offers an exquisite taste.
The pulp has four to eight white-colored segments similar in shape to those of an orange.
The pericarp of the fruit is where all the health benefits exist.
Within the hard purple outer casing of this fruit lies a unique class of potent antioxidants called xanthones.
The most plentiful natural source of xanthones is the mangosteen.
Xanthones is thought to be more potent than both Vitamin C and Vitamin E, and many doctors refer to xanthones as “super antioxidants.”
