Keluwih (Artocarpus camansi Blanco): Potential utilization as foodstuff and its bioactivity

Artocarpus camansi (AC) has been long used by Indonesian local people as food and traditional medicine. This study aims to explain the relationship between the use of AC as a food ingredient and traditional medicine and its bioactivity. The method used in writing this article is a literature study on various scientific articles published online at Google Scholar using AC, uses AC, and AC bioactivities. The results obtained were synthesized so as to be able to explain the botany, utilization and bioactivity of AC in a comprehensive manner. The fruits of AC have been used as a vegetable ingredient, baby food and has the potential to be developed as an economic commodity. The use of AC as a food ingredient is related to its nutritional content. The seeds of AC are rich in protein carbohydrates, amino acids, fats and minerals (phosphorus, potassium, sodium, iron, copper). As a traditional medicine, AC is used to treat dysentery, malaria, related to its bioactivity as an anti-microbial, anti-malarial, anti-diabetic-mellitus, anti-cancer. The flavonoids of AC extract associated with antimalarial and anti-cancer activity, while -sitosterol propionate was associated with anti-diabetes mellitus activity. AC is very potential to be developed as an alternative food ingredient as well as anti-diabetes mellitus.