The Benefits of Bintaro Fruit for Industrial and Household Raw Materials

Bintaro fruit is derived from bintaro tree which in the type of plants, including in the category of shade plants as the benefits of greening the environment. Bintaro tree has a resilient nature, fast growing and able to adapt so commonly used to shade the road. Typically, this tree has a height of up to 12 meters and has a leaf-shaped oval like mango leaves. For the fruit itself, bintaro has a fruit that resembles an egg with a size of 5-10 cm which is dark red when it has matured.

Content in Bintaro Fruit

Based on Faperta Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) research, bintaro fruit consists of 8% seed and 92% fruit meat. The seed portion is divided into 14% shell and 86% seed. Bintaro seeds contain between 35-50% oil (compare with 14% seedlings and 20% palm oil). The dried bintaro seed more and more oil content. These oils include non-food oils, including palmitic acid 22.1%, stearic acid 6.9%, oleic acid 54.3%, and linoleic acid 16.7%.

Although it contains only a certain amount of oil, the benefits of this binataro fruit are widely used as specific manufacture materials:

1. Rat Drawer

Benefits of this bintaro fruit can dijdikan rat poison because this fruit contains toxic cerberin that can damage the brain nerve center of mice. With a keen sense of smell, the rats will soon move away. The way to make bintaro fruit into rat poison is quite easy. Namely by putting the bintaro fruit in the area that is usually passed by the mouse so that by itself the rat will leave.

2. Alternative Fuel

Based on Faperta IPB research, bintaro fruit can actually be used as alternative fuel. Even based on toxicity test results from the sap of the fruit, indicates bintaro oil is suitable for use as fuel, with smell, smoke and other residues that are classified as safe.

3. Kerosene

When juxtaposed with jatropha seeds, the seeds of this bintaro fruit actually have higher oil content. Through several stages of processing, 1 kg of oil can be produced from 1.8 kg of dried bintaro seeds. This oil can be used as a substitute for kerosene for the stove. Processing of bintaro fruit into oil is also calculated quickly and easily, as for the way is:

• Dry bintaro seeds in the sun
• Then grind or mash the dried bintaro seeds
• Press it until the oil comes out
• If mixed with dirt, filter the oil
• If necessary, leave the oil for one to two nights so that the dirt will settle
• Then, the oil was ready for use.

4. Grayak Caterpillars

A study conducted by the Research Institute of Rawa Land (Balittra), Banjar Baru South Kalimantan is doing research on bintaro fruit, against grayak caterpillar.

Results of research conducted in 2008, showed 24 hours after consuming dipped in bintaro, as many as 30% of the grayak caterpillar population died. In fact, the mortality rate rose to 90-95% after 60-72 hours of this treatment.

5. Biopesticide

How to make biopesticide from the benefits of bintaro fruit is quite easy, ie by way of extraction (ethanol and water). How:

• Most important is to prepare 1 kg of fresh bintaro leaves
• Then soak 2 days in ethanol or acetone solution
• Then strain the extract to separate the liquid with the leaves
• After that steam liquid extract until thick

For application, the dose of 1 g is 1 liter of water. Way by dissolving 1 gr of pasta in 5-10 cc tween oil, then added water little by little. Finally, spray 500 liters of solution for 1 hectare of land.

6. Toxins in Arrows

In India the toxins contained in bintaro fruit are commonly used for suicide. The Dayak and Banjar tribes use the toxins contained in this fruit to kill animals, if applied to the arrows for the purpose of hunting.

7. Particle Board Materials

Bintaro fruit is one of the non-wood lignocellulosic raw materials, which contain:

• Holocellulose - 65.47%
• Cellulose - 56.76%
• Lignin - 28.30%
• Extractive - 7.55%.

The presence of lignocellulosic content in bintaro fruit fiber can potentially be used as raw material for making particle board.

8. Raw Candle Materials

Candles are a source of light used by some people. Later, it turns out that the seeds of bintaro fruit contain a lot of oil. And because it is able to produce this much oil, the benefits of bintaro fruit can be used to make candles.

9. Deodorant Material

As is known, deodorant serves to inhibit the sweat channel for the amount of sweat that grows in the armpits slightly. In addition, deodorant also has added value because of the fragrance that is able to make underarm aromatic. Apparently, bintaro fruit is one of the fruit that serves as a material deodorant. Even some studies have proven that.

10. Drug Injury

Benefits of bintaro fruit also serves as a wound medicine. In fact, Muna tribe originating from North Sulawesi Wakarumba district, commonly use cerbera odollam contained in bintaro fruit as a medicine that can heal wounds.

Bintaro fruit itself is actually not edible, because it contains poison cerberin. This toxin is thought to inhibit the calcium ion channel in the human heart muscle so that it can lead to interference with the heartbeat even lead to death. In addition, bintaro wood can also spread toxins if burned. Therefore, the smoke is the source of the spreading of the poison.