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Bread fruit is more widely known as fried snacks or used as flour “Bread fruit” that can be processed into noodles or bread. In fact, plants Bread fruit (Artocarpus altilis) is very potential to be developed into drugs to prevent heart disease.

Traditionally, leaves of Bread fruit has been used to treat inflammatory diseases, liver, heart, and kidney. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, roots and stems of plants Bread fruit is used to treat cirrhosis (liver cancer).

Bread fruit has a distinctive flavonoids, test the efficacy of leaf extract Bread fruit shows the effect of decreasing blood cholesterol and fat accumulation in the aortic wall of blood vessels in mice in the laboratory. In vitro study also concluded, Bread fruit leaf extract effectively protects the heart from acute ischemic attack.

Bread fruit toxicity test showed no toxic side effects found in animal tests, does not affect kidney function, heart and liver, and hematological profile.