Snake Fruit Benefits. Salak is a good food to add to dishes for flavor, and it also has high nutritional value. The edible parts of the fruit have beneficial amounts of phenolic, flavonoid, and ...

One strain of extra small, extra sweet salak bali called gula pasir (“sand sugar”), fetches the highest price on the island, ranging from 75 cents to $1.50 per pound, depending on the season.

He grows salak palm trees on a 10 rai plot of land. On the remaining 30 rai, he plants many varieties of durian and also has mangosteen, longkong and rambutan fruit trees.