Baobab Articles
Make a simple, tasty, and nutiritious drink from baobab fruit pulp- a naturally dired, high vtiamin C, mineral, and fiber product.
A description of the components of the baobab fruit with pictures
A summary overview of the origins, uses, and nutrition of baobab tree derived products.
A page dedicated to the baobab tree
What is Baobab Used For?
Baobab Ice Cream! Prodotti Stella, Altavilla Vicente, italy.
How about a refreshing beverage high in vitamin C, calcium, iron and other minerals, and also containing dietary fiber?
How about baobab body butter for moisturizing your skin?
How about fine gin flavored with baobab?
How about a weight loss fromula containing baobab?
Interesting Baobab Reviews
US market to see more natural baobab for use in cosmetics, food
Baobab to hit the big time next year, predicts Mintel
Interview: Baobab Sustainable and in Demand
We are an agent of the Baobab Fruit Company of Senegal. We supply baobab raw materials to North America
Baobab Featured at Cosmofarma in Bologna, Italy, May 8-10,
2009 (click image)
Elle UK says
Foods and what they do for you: Baobab, Why eat it? Delicia Smith
"The baobab fruit looks like a coconut, but has six times
the vitamin C of an orange, twice the calcium of milk and is
packed with antioxidants like iron and potassium. The white
powdery pulp of the baobab (pronounced bay-oh-bab) fruit has been
consumed by Africans for generations owing to its health benefits
and is on course to become the next big super food in the UK. It
has pro-biotic properties, meaning it stimulates the good
bacteria in your gut, so is great for your digestion, and
it’s high potassium levels are great for brain, muscle and
nerve function.
How: You can peel, slice and cook it with anything - beef,
chicken, and even bake or grill it with fish, or roast it, or
mash it, or puree it, the possibilities are endless. But also
keep an eye out for baobab in smoothies and cereal bars, which
will be hitting stores in the next few months. Products are still
in development as the EU only granted permission for it’s
use in 2008.
You can buy dried fruit pulp and oil from US site
Baobab-fruit.com "
LA Times Predicts: Hot nutrition trend for 2009 -- the baobab?
Photo: Baobab trees, as depicted in the animated feature "Madagascar." Photo credit: DreamWorks Animation SKG
Can you imagine Beyoncé or Britney eating baobab?
From the Times Online, Oumou Sangare, Mali's greatest Diva:
"It's hard to imagine, say, Beyoncé or Britney driving themselves and several passengers over 150 dusty miles to an event - the four-day Festival sur le Niger in Ségou - they are headlining at midnight. Let alone stopping regularly for petrol, dried baobab fruit, chunks of meat and a chat..."
Maybe, but soon it may not be unusual to see one of these superstars or another, stopping for a baobab smoothie or beverage, or perhaps using a baobab oil/leaf/exfoliant based beauty product.
What Is Baobab?
Baobab is a tree that grows throughout Africa (and Australia). It grows in dry, hot savannahs. Local peoples have used many parts of the baobab for centuries- the fruit pulp or acid pith is used to make a refreshing and nutritious drink; The leaves can be eaten like spinach, or dried and and added to sauces, used as a medicinal compound, etc.; The bark has been used for fiber for nets, rope, clothing, medicinal compounds etc.;
The fruit pulp is high in vitamin C, calcium, iron and other minerals, and contains dietary fiber (soluble and unsoluble). The leaves are also high in vitamin C, and contain protein.
We offer naturally dried baobab fruit pulp, baobab red fiber (micronised), baobab seed exfoliants and oils, and extracts of baobab leaf and fruit. Please visit our product page for an overview.
Baobab is a growing trend in Europe,and is expected to become a hit tn North America in 2009. Now is the time to start developing Baobab products.