Bael Fruit/Bel Giri is hard, woody and smooth with sweet flesh inside that can be consumed fresh or dried. 

Bael fruit, also known as Bael, Bengal Quince, Golden Apple, Japanese Bitter Orange, Stone Apple, Wood Apple, Aegle Marmelos, contains protein, beta-carotene, vitamins, thiamine, riboflavin and vitamin C. Bael fruit is spherical in shape like a baseball. The bael fruit can certainly consumed raw or even cooked.

Bael fruit (Wood Apple) has a lot of health benefits including

• Ripe bael fruit is best of all laxatives and excellent for treating constipation.
• The unripe or even half ripe fruit is, the most efficient food treatment for long-term diarrhea as well as dysentery in which there is not any fever.
• It is very effective food treatment for peptic ulcer.
• Bael fruit juice mixed with honey is used to cure mouth ulcers.
• Its use is really good for treating repeated colds as well as respiratory system ailmentssuch as asthma or cold.
• Bael fruit is very effective in treating Gastro duodenal ulcers that are the most typical type of gastric ulcers.
• It can control diabetes.
• It helps in cholesterol control and also reduces blood cholesterol levels.
• Bael juice controls triglycerides, serum and tissue lipid profiles.
• It is great at managingbacterial and fungal infections.
• Bael fruits are rich in vitamin C therefore it really helps to cures scurvy.
• Raw bael fruit is very effective in the management of arthritis and also gout. Its pulp combined with hot mustard oil whenever applied to inflamed joints make rest from pain.
• Use of Wood apple juice consumed with dry ginger powder and jaggery by the infant mothers helps to produce more milk for the infants.
• Using juice regularly can prevent or cure breast cancer.