Star apple is popularly known as Udara in Igbo language and Agbalumo in Yoruba language and botanically called Chrysophyllum Albidum is a seasonal fruit. In Nigeria, it comes out during the dry season between December and April. I travelled over the weekend to eastern Nigeria and seeing star apple reminds me again that we are in December. Star apple also called white star apple is one of the fruits my siblings and I look forward to enjoying whenever we travelled for the Christmas holiday. Its inner fleshy pulp is star/apple shaped and maybe that was where it got the name star apple from.

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Udara otherwise known as Agbalumo has a sweet, tender inner flesh and a chewable edible skin. It brings out delicious milky juice when squeezed. Findings have it that when it is plucked from the tree, it is very acidic and very sour but when allowed to fall to the ground or for the rain to beat it, this fruit comes out very sweet and less acidic. Star apple tree is a giant one just like the iroko tree. Read on to see how you can benefit health-wise from this small but mighty fruit.

5 HEALTH BENEFITS OF STAR APPLE