Dukung / Duku Langsat
(Lansium Domesticum)
Dokong fruits are ovoid, roundish orbs around five centimeters
in diameter, usually found in clusters of two to thirty
fruits. Each round fruit is covered by yellowish, thick,
leathery skin. Underneath the skin, the fruit is divided
into five or six slices of translucent, juicy flesh. The
flesh is slightly acidic in taste, although ripe specimens
are sweeter. Green, seeds are present in around half of
the segments, usually taking up a small portion of the segment
although some seeds take up the entire segment's volume.
In contrast with the sweet-sour flavor of the fruit's flesh,
the seeds are extremely bitter.
The sweet juicy flesh contains:
1. sucrose,
2. saccharose,
3. fructose and
4. glucose.
Fruits are available seasonally.
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