Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,594 Breadfruit Fruit Food Eaten raw or cooked. 8,519
1,595 Breadfruit Seed Food Cooked. Firm and close-textured, they are very nutritious, with a flavour somewhat reminiscent of chestnuts 8,519
1,596 Breadfruit Bark Medicinal The bark is used to treat headache. Bark extracts exhibited strong cytotoxic activities against leukaemia cells in tissue culture, and extracts from roots and stem barks showed some antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacteria and may have potential in treating tumours 8,519
1,597 Breadfruit Flower Food Male inflorescence, Cooked and used as a vegetable or used in the preparation of a sweetmeat 8,519
1,598 Breadfruit Flower Medicinal The toasted flowers are rubbed on the gums around aching teeth to ease pain. An extract from the flowers is effective in treating ear oedema 8,519
1,599 Breadfruit Leaf Medicinal yellowing leaf is brewed into a tea and taken to reduce high blood pressure. The tea is also thought to control diabetes 8,519
1,600 Breadfruit Root Medicinal Pressed fluid of the root is used in the treatment of respiratory ailments which include difficult, painful breathing. When macerated it is used as a poultice for skin ailments. 8,519
1,601 Breadfruit Fruit Medicinal Fluid pressed from young fruit is given to treat an illness which causes pain in the lungs and vomiting of blood 8,519
1,602 Avocado Fruit Food Consumption of the fruit is most often as an uncooked savoury dish mixed with herbs and/or spices, as an ingredient of vegetable salads, or as a sweetened dessert (Indonesia, the Philippines). 8,581
1,603 Avocado Fruit Industrial The oil is used by the cosmetic industry in soaps and skin moisturizer products. 8,581
1,604 Passionfruit Fruit Food The fruit may be eaten fresh, but mostly the pulp is extracted and preserved by heating or cooling. 8,593
1,605 Passionfruit Fruit Beverages The juice has a unique and intense flavor and high acidity which makes it a natural concentrate. When sweetened and diluted it is very palatable and blends well with other fruit juices. 8,593
1,606 Jicama Yam Bean Root Industrial An extract of the root is used as an ingredient in commercial cosmetic preparations as a skin conditioner. 8,673
1,607 Indian Mulberry Fruit Food The unripe fruit is used in Indian cooking in sambals and curries. 8,674
1,608 Indian Mulberry Fruit Beverages The ripe fruit is made into a beverage with sugar or syrup. 8,674
1,609 Indian Mulberry Leaf Food Young leaves and blanched shoots can be consume raw, steamed or added to curries. 8,674
1,610 Indian Mulberry Fruit Medicinal The fruits are used as a diuretic, a laxative, an emollient and as an emmenagogue, for treating asthma and other respiratory problems, as a treatment for arthritic and comparable inflammations, in cases of leucorrhoea and sapraemia and for maladies of the inner organs 8,674
1,611 Indian Mulberry Root Industrial A red dye is obtained from the root bark. The basis of the morindone dyeing matter, called Turkish red, is the hydrolysed (red) form of the glycoside morindin. This is the most abundant anthraquinone which is mainly found in the root bark. 8,674
1,612 Pineapple Guava Fruit Food The fruit is best eaten raw but it can also be made into pies, cakes, puddings, jams, jellies 8,722
1,613 Pineapple Guava Root Environmental The shallow root system holds the soil and prevents erosion 8,722