In the last 20 years, plant-based therapy had become the world's attention. Our country, Indonesia is popular in its megabiodiversity, among which is Salacca zalacca Gaert. (Voss.), or salak. The fruit of this plant is generally utilized as pickles, chips, etc, however, its benefits for health remains unexplored. Library searches using PubMed, GoogleScholar, ScienceDirect, and Google, resulted that S. zalacca, which contains flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids, and sitosterols, exerts various pharmacology activities, e.g. antioxidant, cholesterol reducer, antidiabetic, skin whitening, antihyperuricemia, antibacterial, immune system enhancer, cancer cell growth inhibitor, and adsorbent.
Key words: antioxidant, cancer cell, immune system, skin whitening
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