Health and Nutritional Benefits of Pepper Fruit Pepper fruit is one of the most useful and essential plants that is widely consumed by the inhabitants of West Africa due to its distinctive spicy taste. Pepper fruit, which is botanically called Dennettia tripetala belongs to the plant family of Annonaceae. Pepper fruit is called Mmimi in Igbo, Ako in Edo, Nkarika in Ibibio, and Ata igbere in Yoruba. Pepper fruit is a pep-perish, pungent, spicy medicinal plant that is characterized by greenish appearance when unripe and pinkish or red in color when it is ripe. It is also used traditionally as a remedy for cough, fever, toothache, diabetes and nausea. While some plants provide us food, nutritional values and health benefits, some provide no nutrients and there are those that could even be toxic and dangerous to human health but this is not the case with pepper fruits. Composition of Pepper Fruit The highly nutritious fruit is rich in fatty acid, protein, carbohydrat...
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