Diet and Lower Cholesterol with Putsa Apples

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Did you ever hear the name of this Putsa or Pussa? Putsa apples or Pussa or Jujube or Ziziphus Mauritiana. This one apples kind is not often sold by the trader in Jakarta, in fact it is still difficult to be gotten it in the Supermarket even. The form, the measurement and its colour like a green apples or young tomatoes that still were green. The measurement is not bigger than apples generally.

With good growth condition, apples putsa could achieve the measurement of the fist of a child. Its meat like normal apples with the refined texture and contained more water (approached the content of water in Peer fruit). It seems sweet and refreshing but few contents of sugar. The low level of the content of sugar in apples putsa was believed could reduce the weight especially for the diet period and unloaded the level of cholesterol. Were you interested trying it?

Because it was not yet cultivated, to get these apples putsa needed a little “effort”, at least for the moment that you must dismiss few powers more and began from looking for these prospective apples. This crop not the original Indonesian crop so it was not trade by all fruit traders of the crop seed. Reportedly this apples kind came from India and was cultivated in the several country, including the neighbouring country like Thailand and Taiwan. Although it is not the original Indonesian crop, apples putsa could grow with fertilizer in this country about the height 20 metre till 2000 metre on sea level. The tree of this could achieve the height more than 2 (two) metre so as necessary cutting in order to have the dense branch and be easy in carrying out the maintenance in harvest time.
Its maintenance was easy, only needed enaough water and a little fertilising when being buried in the pot with the intensity of the sunlight. The climate of the Indian country that almost was the same as Indonesia caused this crop really was easy to adapt.

Fertilising could use manure or fertiliser that often was marketed by the origin contained the element N,P, K and nutrition for the development of the crop. The putsa apples tree is one of the strong crop, but in the enlargement period from the blossoming period until the enlargement period and the harvest must be guarded against by the fruit fly pest. The fruit fly really liked the refined texture to the contents this as in the case of in jambu air. After be aged 4 -6 months, putsa tree usually could have been enjoyed forever. The ripe fruit was dark green or green yellowish. When you the person who did not like to maintain the crop but want to enjoyed putsa apples and you were lucky, you ould find these apples in the trader with the revolving price between Rp20.000-25.000 per kilogram.