Soursop Health Benefit: Anti Cancer Super Fruit

About Soursop Health Benefit: Anti Cancer Super Fruit

Soursop also known as "Guyabano" is a fruit that comes from the Graviola tree. Other names for soursop such as Pawpaw (in Brazil);Guanábana (Spanish), Africa and Southeast Asia; Graviola (Portuguese), Guyabano ( Philippines), and Custard Apple (English). The scientific name is Annona Muricata. The graviola tree grows in warm tropical areas such as the Philippines, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

Additionally, it has superfruit-healing properties as a high-antioxidant food due to its vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorous and even some iron that it contains. These vitamins and minerals are why soursop benefits include potentially helping reduce eye disease, treat infections and potentially even fight cancer, among others.


Known as a sedative, a nerve tonic, and used to maintain proper intestinal health, guyabano is just one medicinal tool stemming from the graviola tree. Throughout history, each part of the graviola tree, such as the bark, leaves, roots, fruit, and seeds have been used for medicinal purposes. The seeds have been used to treat nausea and vomiting, while herbal medicine practitioners recommend using the fruit and leaves to relieve stomach distress, pain, cough, asthma, and fever.

A well-known fruit all over the world, the soursop's delicious white pulp, with tones of fruit candy and smooth cream is commonplace in tropical markets, but is rarely found fresh anywhere else. The graviola tree, or Annona Muricata, produces the sweet soursop fruit, also called custard apple, paw paw or, in many Spanish speaking countries, guanabana.

While the fruit is not as well known as others and is less researched, soursop health benefits are still worthy of note. soursop fruit is so delicious with a sharp aroma and a sweet-sour taste which is basically a combination of the taste of pineapple and strawberry.

Recently, it has gained attention and popularity due to its natural cancer cell killing properties. There are also various uses of soursop apart from its anti- cancer properties. They have the Acetoginin containing compounds namely bulatacin, asimisin and squamosin. Acetoginin acts as an anti- feedent. Thus, they are often used in killing insects and pests which die by consuming these leaves even in small amounts. Scientific research conducted by The National Cancer Institute has proved that Soursop leaves can effectively attack and destroy cancer cells. In addition to this, they are also used in the treatment of several other diseases.

The App Features
- About and origins of Soursop Superfruit.
- Medical research on Soursop content to the human health.
- The Top Benefits of Soursop including as an anti cancer superfruit.
- Precautions and side effect of overdose soursop
- and simple and easy to follow step by step recipes for soursop