Showing Food Shea tree
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| Name | Shea tree | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Vitellaria paradoxa | ||||||||||
| Description | Shea tree is a tree indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. The shea fruit consists of a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed from which shea butter is extracted. Throughout Africa, shea butter is used extensively for food and medicinal purposes, and is a major source of dietary fat. The fruit is edible and delicious. It tastes roughly like a fig. [Wikipedia] | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00775 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Herbs and Spices | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Oilseed crops | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Ericales | ||||||||||
| Family | Sapotaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Vitellaria | ||||||||||
| Species | paradoxa | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 505960 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Shea_tree | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. | ||||||||||