RAAU NONO

The RAAU NONO is also commonly known as NONI JUICE in the western world. The Noni Juice is prepared a little differently to make the product free of the natural strong odor and to suit people’s taste.


This morning I woke up and went on my way to bathe in the natural pool. I looked up to the Nono tree and saw that the Nono fruits were ripe and perfect for use in making a Raau Nono. They have been growing and riping on the tree at the corner there between my Bungalow and the water.

I collected them very carefully so I wouldn’t break the branches they are sitting on and brought them inside to be rinsed and dried before putting them into a plastic bag to ripe perfectly. In the past my mother said that they would weave a basket with the niau (coconut tree leaves) and would lay Nono leaves down at the bottom where the Nono fruits would sit and ripe for a few days.

Then the next stage is to gather them into a very large glass jar with lid. Take it outside and let it sit in the full sun until all of the fruits would melt. I am being told that your house roof is the perfect place to have it. This stage could last days. Take the jar back in at night and back out in the full sun the next day. In the middle of the process, you would want to mash the fruits and leave the mixe out again for a few days.

The way a friend of mine does hers is a little different. She feels that it is a safer process to keep your jar of nono in the fridge and not to take it out in the sun. She came up alone with making it this way instead of the traditional way. I assume that her technique is as good as my mother’s. I am sure there are many ways to come about to obtain the same result.

To get it ready for use… after they have set for a few days in the sun …you mash the fruits a little more then filter the puree to collect the Nono juice… Store the potion in the fridge.

How do you filter? You put the puree in a clean cloth…turn and squeeze it in a bowl and repeat that gesture until you run out of the puree. My mom said that she would eat the left over of the puree leaving the seeds out… but know that this is totally optional.

For the next few days you will drink the Raau Nono as you wish or really until you run out of it as directed below:

You fill a quarter of your glass of the potion and drink it straight, twice or three times a day. Once a day is great. However you wish to take it is fine.

Many in now days in Tahiti and her islands will make it easy by letting a Nono fruit ripe then will cut it in half and will eat either a spoon full of it or half of the fruit just as it is, mixed up with some of their favorite fruit juice.












Written by Tararaina