SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OVER NONI HAS BEEN CONDUCTED SINCE 1950
Noni's characteristics were recognised 6000 years ago and European civilisation discovered them in the early 18th century.
One can also find some information on Noni in the Sanskrit, where it is mentioned that the plant was known in the Ancient times. At first it grew in South East Asia and it was used 6000 years ago in India. It was brought to Polynesian islands by people migrating from South East Asia and Indonesia.
Captain James Cook devoted substantial space of his journals to Noni in the 1760's. Later, during World War II, a book describing survival techniques in the tropics published by the American military widely covered the advantages and uses of this tropical plant.