{"id":2438,"date":"2023-02-24T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:00:43","slug":"borthekera-is-endemic-to-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/borthekera-is-endemic-to-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Borthekera is endemic to southeast asia."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Borthekera:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Garcinia pedunculata, popularly known as Bor Thekera in Assamese, is an evergreen tree related to the more familiar purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana).<\/li>\n<li>The tree is endemic to the south-eastern regions of Asia such as parts of Bangladesh and north-eastern parts of India.<\/li>\n<li>The sun-dried slices of the ripe fruit are used for culinary and medicinal purposes and are known to have therapeutic properties like anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, antibacterial, antifungal, antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, nephroprotective, and even neuroprotective activity.<\/li>\n<li>With scientific interventions seeking proof of these claims, multiple studies have reported that G. pedunculata is a rich source of antioxidants.<\/li>\n<li>Uses: The ripe fruit is eaten cooked or raw. Sun-dried slices are much valued and used for preparing delicacies like &#8220;tenga diya masor jol&#8221; meaning Assamese sour fish curry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the role of antioxidants?<\/h3>\n<p>\nAntioxidants are man-made or natural substances that may prevent or delay some types of cell damage. These are found in many naturally available foods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dst.gov.in\/medicinal-plant-commonly-called-borthekera-assamese-found-have-cardioprotective-potential\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Medicinal plant commonly called Borthekera in Assamese found to have cardioprotective potential<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garcinia pedunculata, popularly known as Bor Thekera in Assamese, is an evergreen tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}