Just leave it to nature to design something wild beyond your imagination. If you thought science fiction is where all the weird things take shape, you’re only half right because chances are whatever you see brought to life from the drawing board was probably inspired by something already in existence –you just didn’t realize it. But as odd as they make look and seem, nature intend them so for a reason and in way it always teaches us the golden rule or looking beyond the appearance.
So here today, let’s take a closer at one of the odd creations of nature – the noni fruit.
The appearance
The noni fruit comes from the noni plant which is a small evergreen shrub/tree. It grows to a height between three to six metres, has a straight trunk, large elliptical leaves and white tubular flowers. The noni fruit (to me personally) is not very pretty sight. I would describe it when ripe to resemble a cross between the disfigured flesh of a pineapple and an icky sight of maggots about to burst out from sacs of pus, and when it is young and unripe – it seems to call to mind the very familiar look of a caterpillar. Can’t say the flesh of the fruit looks anymore appealing either.
Beyond the looks
Sadly, the look of the noni fruit isn’t the only thing going against the fruit. You’d think that when it’s appearance is already such a mind challenge, nature wouldn’t have to go make it worse by making it smell like blue cheese/vomit. It pretty much also taste like how it looks and smells – nasty.
The winning quality
So if it looks bad, smells bad and taste bad – why do you hear so much about it and why are people flocking to consume it? Simple because the noni fruit is a healing fruit. It contains precious vitamins, minerals and Phytochemical Components (famed as an inhibitor of HIV viral proteins) and almost every culture across the globe has used the noni fruit in their own unique way. In fact it’s well known that the noni fruit is used for the following:
- An after child birth care for women and aid to normalize menstrual flow
- Cures coughs, nausea, colic, diabetes and stomach pains
- Alleviates urinary problems and treats certain venereal ailments
- Treat arthritis ,lumbago, asthma, and dysentery
- Draw out pus from an infected boil
- A cure for head lice
So are you prepared to join the crowd to close your eyes, hold your breath and take that big gulp of a noni fruit?
