DUHAT

This fruit is a family of berry..It shapes like a grapes but it does not taste as it is. It is one of the favorites of the mountainous children. It is also considered as the forgotten fruit. After you eat this berry type fruit your teeth turns to violet so be careful in eating. It is sweet when it is ripe but bitter if it is not.

Duhat seeds have come into prominence in recent years on account of their suggested value in the treatment of diabetes. Because of the remarkable physiological property of reducing the quantity of sugar attributed to duhat seeds, and the conflicting reports in the literature, the seeds were subjected to more critical chemical analyses by Power and Callan. They summarize the results of their investigation as follows:

A preliminary examination of the seed showed it contained neither an alkaloid nor an enzyme, but an abundance of starch and tannin.

An alcoholic extract of the seed, when distilled in a current of steam, yielded a small amount of pale yellow essential oil, while possessed the following constants:

d 20°/20° = 0.9258; - 2° 51’ in a 50 mm. Tube.