Research Article

Proximate Analysis of Five Wild Fruits of Mozambique

Table 3

Traditional consumption and use of the studied fruits.

Species Utilisation

Adansonia digitata Pulp: fresh, diluted, and sweetened to juice, frozen to sweet ice, cooked to porridge, and fermented to an alcoholic drink
Kernels: fresh or roasted, milled and boiled to sauce or porridge

Landolphia kirkii Fresh or fermented to an alcoholic drink

Salacia kraussii Eaten fresh

Sclerocarya birrea Pulp: fresh, squeezed to juice, and fermented to an alcoholic drink
Kernels: fresh or roasted, cooking oil can be extracted

Vangueria infausta Fresh, soaked, squeezed to juice, mixed with sugar, water, or milk to a porridge, and fermented to an alcoholic drink