To get access to this content you need the following product:. Springer Professional "Technik" Online-Abonnement. Available only for authorised users. Agric Syst — Biol Conserv 2 — Glob Ecol Conserv Ecol Food Nutr 49 3 — Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr — Am Nat 4 — For Trees Livelihoods 20 2—3 — Fruits 66 6 — PhD Thesis - University of Southampton, Southampton Cuni-Sanchez A Predicting suitable areas for cultivation and conservation of the baobab tree and investigating superior sources of planting material.
Agrofor Syst 80 2 — Agriculture Ecosyst Environ 1 — J Biogeogr — Erwerbs-Obstbau 56 1 :9— Genet Resour Crop Evol 60 4 — Gartenbauwissenschaft 67 4 — New For 41 3 — J Mixed Methods Res 1 2 — Lamiinae two tree girdling beetles of Tropical Africa. East Afr Agric Forestry J 27 1 — Gebauer of a baobab tree in South Kordofan, Sudan. The naturally dry, whitish fruit pulp has five times the vitamin C concentration of an orange, and is high in minerals such as calcium, magnesium and iron.
It can be eaten fresh or processed into porridge, juice, jam, ice cream and sweets. The seeds are rich in protein and fat and can be roasted and eaten as a tasty snack or pressed into oil for consumption and industrial use, particularly for cosmetic products.
The leaves have high protein, beta-carotene and iron content and are used fresh as leafy vegetables or dried and powdered as a soup ingredient. As in other undomesticated tree species, there is a high variability among wild baobab trees in valuable characteristics such as the number and size of fruits, proportion of pulp from the whole fruit, taste of pulp and nutrient content of pulp, seeds and leaves.
This descriptor list will help in the domestication and cultivation of the species that is necessary to sustainably develop baobab value chains and meet the growing demand from local and international customers for high quality baobab products. Bioversity International has been the major driver in promoting the descriptor system and has developed and published over descriptor lists since Download the publication: Descriptors for Baobab.
See Photos of baobab and other nutritious African food trees. The work will also fill gaps in our knowledge of the use of the baobab and is likely to spur interest in documenting baobab-related foodway practices in other parts of Africa such as West Africa where the tree is even more important as a food source.
Collaborators: Pentti Turunen, Documentary Filmmaker. A baobab tree in Kitui county Photo: Kimanzi Ndunda. Fiona Njagi carrying a Rabai bag woven with palm leaves. Rodent traps made from baobab fruit. A cluster of baobab trees is a sign that there used to be a settlement at the site, Kitui county Photo: Patrick Maundu. Patel Muiruri on a botanical expedition in Makueni County. A baobab tree stays leafless for the larger part of the year Photo: Patrick Maundu.
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