Evergreen shrub or small tree with white, intergrown flowers and chicken egg-sized, pale green aggregate stone fruits, noni fruit. Originally from Australia, now also found in Central America, Madagascar and the West Indies. The ripe fruit smells rancid and foul and has an unpleasant taste, the unripe fruit tastes juicy and bitter to sour and pungent. The fruit is harvested by hand and the skin and seeds are removed from the flesh. The pureed pulp is pasteurized and mixed with fruit juices, see also Noni juice.
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no proven effect to date
Empirical medicine: panacea: joint inflammation, headache, liver inflammation, spleen disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, diabetes, obesity etc.