Awesome Fruit Dry Fig

 

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Did you know that there are 23 species of ficus?

Among the most important species of ficus is Ficus Carica or fig tree.

A notable fact about this type of Ficus is that it dates approximately between 9400 and 9200 before our era, and this plant was cultivated and domesticated before cereals like wheat, barley, and vegetables.

Where does the information come from?

Fossils from this plant have been discovered at the archeological site Gilgal I in the Jordan Valley.

Noteworthy is the fact that fossils from the early Miocene similar to the endocarps of Ficus Carica, were found in the Kristina Mine at Hrádek nad Nisou in North Bohemia, Czech Republic!

It is also amazing that it is believed that the leaves that covered Adam and Eve, and that we can see represented in various paintings over the years, would be fig leaves!

The fig tree is a deciduous tree, usually native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean.

The fig fruit harvest is an important crop worldwide.

These fruits, the figs, are being eaten fresh or dried.

The fig fruit develops a structure like a fleshy hollow, called syconium, lined internally with numerous unisexual flowers.

Although commonly called fruit, syconium, botanically it is an infructescence, meaning is a type of multiple fruits.

The edible stem of the mature syconium develops into a false fleshy fruit that bears many single-seeded fruits called drupes.

The fig fruit has a length between 3 and 5 centimeters, its green skin becomes purple or brown when the fruit ripens.

The roots, the leaves, and the fruits of the fig tree, they are used since ancient times in traditional medicine to treat various ailments.

Did you know that, from ethnomedical studies and uses, made worldwide, this fruit is used in the treatment of more than 40 types of diseases?

What makes these fruits, figs, so popular and recommended as healthy fruit?

If you didn't know, dried fig fruits are an important source of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, sugars, organic acids, and phenolic compounds.

You thought that red wine or teas are a good source of phenolic compounds?

Well, figs have an excellent content of phenolic compounds, such as proanthocyanidins.

The healing potential of the figs being due to polyphenols such as gallic acid, chlorogenic acid, syringic acid, catechin, epicatechin, and rutin.

Fig varieties have different fruit colors, the color being due to a different concentration of anthocyanins.

The main anthocyanin is cyanidin-3-O-rutinoside, an anthocyanin that is found in appreciable amounts in this fruit.

The color of fig types is well correlated with their content of the total of the polyphenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins. Also, with their antioxidant capacity.

Figs with darker fruit skin color, such as brown, purple and black, have higher phytochemical content than lighter varieties, such as green or yellow fig varieties.

The peel of figs is richer in phytochemicals, it offers most of the phytochemical and antioxidant activities, compared to the pulp of fig fruits.

One hundred grams of fresh figs have 74 kilocalories, 0.75 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 2.9 grams of dietary fiber, 16.26 grams of sugars such as fructose, glucose, and sucrose.

The glycemic index for fresh figs is 51, so they are on the list with a good glycemic index.

However, those who need to pay attention to sugar consumption should know that dried figs have a glycemic index of 61.

This thing places them in the moderate category.

Purple and brown figs have a higher sugar content than other colored figs.

Fresh figs also contain, per hundred grams, 7 micrograms of vitamin A, 85 micrograms of beta-carotene, and 9 micrograms of lutein and zeaxanthin.

The same amount of fresh figs contains folate, a form of vitamin B9, choline, vitamin C and, vitamin K.

Fresh figs also contain calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and good amount of potassium.

Compared to fresh figs, dried figs have a richer content of nutrients per 100 grams.

Also, they contain 249 kilocalories per 100 grams.

The calorie content seems quite high?

Well, 100 grams of dried fig fruits contain a lot of protein and fibers, meaning 3.3 grams of protein and 9.8 grams of fiber.

Did you know that the daily requirement of fiber that an adult should consume is 30 to 40 grams of fiber? So, from this point of view, figs are one of the foods rich in dietary fiber.

Figs are invigorating, being recommended to many categories of people.

How can you eat these fruits?

In addition to being eaten fresh or dried, figs are prepared as jam.

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