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There's a many way for you to prepare or eat a star fruits. Either to eat it raw, make it as a juice or as a salad. Credit to wikiHow, here are few suggestions on how to eat or prepare a star fruit.

Basics

1. Eat star fruit with yellow skin.

2. Cut the star fruit in slices and eat plain.

3. Alternatively, remove the edges and seeds before eating

4. Avoid star fruit if you have kidney problems. The fruit contains a neurotoxin that healthy kidneys can filter out, but damaged kidneys are unable to do so

Other Ways to Eat Star Fruit

1. Include star fruit in a fruit salad.

2. Mix star fruit into leafy green salads.

3. Use star fruit as an exotic garnish. Decorate dishes and platters with sliced star

    fruit for an edible garnish.

4. Add star fruit to cake or bread. Use mashed star fruit in fruit bread or sliced star fruit in upside-down cake

5. Use star fruit as an accompaniment to poultry or seafood dishes. 

6. Create star fruit preserves.

Ways to Drink Star Fruit

1. Make a tropical smoothie. Blend star fruit with other tropical fruits and juice to create a thick, fruity drink.

2. Create a star fruit cocktail.

3. Prepare a star fruit juice drink

Carambola, (starfruit), raw

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	128 kJ (31 kcal)
Carbohydrates	6.73 g
- Sugars	3.98 g
- Dietary fiber	2.8 g
Fat	0.33 g
Protein	1.04 g
- lutein and zeaxanthin	66 μg
Thiamine (vit. B1)	0.014 mg (1%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2)	0.016 mg (1%)
Niacin (vit. B3)	0.367 mg (2%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)	0.391 mg (8%)
Vitamin B6	0.017 mg (1%)
Folate (vit. B9)	12 μg (3%)
Choline	7.6 mg (2%)
Vitamin C	34.4 mg (41%)
Vitamin E	0.15 mg (1%)
Calcium	3 mg (0%)
Iron	0.08 mg (1%)
Magnesium	10 mg (3%)
Manganese	0.037 mg (2%)
Phosphorus	12 mg (2%)
Potassium	133 mg (3%)
Sodium	2 mg (0%)
Zinc	0.12 mg (1%)