How to Open a Durian Fruit: 7 Steps

This article will guide you on how to open a durian fruit. Here are 7 creative ways on how to do it.

For those who are not familiar with durian fruit, you may read about this amazing fruit first before jumping to the section on how to open it properly.

Background on the Native Durian or Native Malagkit Durian

Durian trees are large. These plants can grow from 70 feet to 165 feet tall depending on its soil, and the variety too. It bears its first fruits after 4 years to 5 years and is open pollinated. Some bear fruits once or twice a year. Scientists believed the development of anthers and its flowers in the clade Durio was in conjunction with beetle pollination and vertebrae pollination.

There are 300 distinct different durian species, about 9 or more of which yield edible fruits grown in Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia. In a celebrated, famous manner being the “King of Fruits.”

Native malagkit Durian is famous in Mindanao Philippines and well loved by everyone in the region due to its palatable milder taste, milder aroma and deliciousness.

Durian was named primarily the “King of Fruits” because of:

1. its spikey sharp impeding prickles rind and or tough outer layer of its peel,
2. its massive, weighty, impressively large size with what’s typical of a fruit,
3. Essential powerhouse health benefits and notably great taste, and
4. Striking a superior odor.

The predicament everyone has on how to open the hard husk of a durian fruit upon having it fresh proved to be a challenge. For those who love durian by heart, there are easy ways on how to do it.

Read how in the next section.

How to Open a Hard Husk of Mouthwatering Durian Fruit: 7 Ways

1. Use a big knife with a very thin edge and fine point that can handle the hard shell of the durian fruit.
2. Find a clean pair of cloth gloves, firmly grasp and hold the durian with one hand. If you don’t have gloves, a clean piece of cloth can be an alternative.
3. Look for the 5-pointed star shape at the bottom of the durian fruit (see Figure 1).
4. Dedicate your left hand on holding the durian fruit, whilst the right hand cautiously cuts the durian fruit.
5. Carefully jab and pierce the knife directly on the central portion of the star.
6. Gently twist or move in a turning motion the knife on the durian. Continually twist the knife left and right many times till it opens.
7. Glide the thumb of both hands inside the opening made using the knife, and forcefully separate the fleshy parts while being careful of not putting in much pressure to damage the pulp. Place one by one on a big serving plate. Best served chilled.

You are genuinely an Asian by heart if you dearly appreciate durian that comes in all of its different flavors from 300 Delightful Durian Fruit different varieties and its flavor. A durian fruit typically weigh 1 kilo to 5 kilos a piece.

The delightful durian fruit contains a repugnant smell that some people from other countries dislike. This smell is because of its aldehydes and organo-sulfur compounds. Whilst it has a multitude of medicinal properties and health benefits, I will discuss only 7 of those most significant.

7 Health Benefits of Durian

1. Jam-packed with Dietary Fiber – Durian is recognized for its capacity to normalize bowel movement and also to ease infrequent passage of usually dry hardened feces due to constipation. It reduces the risk of diabetes, thyroid, cancer, colorectal carcinoma (CRC) a malignant progressive tumor, etc. and helps build up of good chemical changes by which energy is provided for vital processes of the body. It cleans your colon like a soft broom cleaner does. The fiber maneuvers your intestines to move quickly after eating whole grains and durian fruit for dessert rich in insoluble solid fiber and signals to stomach and brain that you’re full. However, people with heart ailment and high blood pressure are advised to eat in moderation.
2. Its Vitamin B plays an integral part in your body to continually regenerate the “healthy food” you’ve eaten into the daily “energy” requirement. It functions as a specially fitted powerful antioxidant to safeguard the cells from the harmful effects of the free radicals you feed your body with unhealthy foods. It lowers the risk of skin cancer, stress, and overfatigue.
3. The Vitamin C content has a mild diuretic effect that entirely works on removing the excess water from your body as diuretic, boosts your immune system that protects you from sickness, and hastens wound healing as it enables for your body to produce collagen. It helps reduce minor cough, asthma, minor allergy; and then promotes good memory. Furthermore, it fights anemia, over fatigue, a feeling of tiredness during the daytime, mild nosebleeds, and kidney disorder. It reduces the paramount dry skin and reverse your sun damage skin, thus giving you a glowing healthy skin. It limits the damages by the excessive exposure to harmful UV rays.
4. Potassium is an essential mineral that supports legions of the functions in your body. It is entirely good for your kidney, and further promotes bone density. Problems in diarrhea, fatigue, muscle weakness, dialyses, constipation and inflammatory bowel disease are symptoms that you have potassium deficiency. The ideal way to meet your potassium need is to eat a variety of fruits and veggies. Because essential foods, fruits and veggies meet other of your essential nutritional needs—it has to be balanced at all times.
5. Its anti-inflammatory component counteracts the inflammation from possible damage tissues and or any cell injury, skin redness, heat. It reduces the risk of obesity, diabetes, depression, and cancer. A healthy, strong, natural anti-inflammatory diet is complete with nutrients coming from fresh organic veggies, organic fruits and fresh fish.
6. The antioxidant compounds of durian fruit possess the authority and control the free radicals from your body. The good antioxidants include glutathione, lipoic acid, flavonoids, phenols, phytoestrogens, among others.
7. The durian fruit also apparently helps treat dengue fever. In some parts of the Philippines, particularly in Mindanao Region, where the durian fruit amply grows, the fruit serves as a good way to treat dengue. A long time ago, a dear relative of our family was rapidly struck off by this unsettling dengue fever and was hospitalized for one (1) week already, with no indications of returning to his normal state and strength. And so, my ever-kind, helpful mother told the family to continually pray directly to God and candidly feed fresh native durian or malagkit durian fruit every after meals 3x a day. She did this with organic veggies dish in moderation to the severely sick relative of ours, who was still then at the hospital bed for a few days. In a marvelous, surprising manner—he was getting better and better each day. He was remarkably recovering and regaining his strength back. His blood platelets, to everyone’s great astonishment, were restored to its normal conditions and the fever as well consummately have vanished. In the succeeding days, he was discharged from the hospital, totally healed and back on his foot again. We were all grateful to God, the ever-great doctor, the great healer ever (Ezekiel 47:12: “And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food, their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.)

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