Product Development: Nutritional Value, Processing and Utilization of Indigenous Fruits from the Miombo Ecosystem - Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utilization and Commercialization - page 296

Dry Reducing Energy

Fruit matter Ash Protein Fat Fibre Carbohydrate sugars value

Species Source part (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (kJ/100 g)

Adansonia digitata Mw Pulp 86.8 5.0 3.1 4.3 8.3 79.4 - 1480

Kernel 92.1 9.0 28.7 29.6 7.28 25.4 - -

Azanza garckeana Mw Pulp 52.8 6.3 12.0 1.1 45.3 35.2 - 810

Tz Pulp - - 0.02 14.9 5.05 - -

Flacourtia indica Mw Pulp 19.2 5.7 4.2 3.6 5.7 80.7 - 1290

Parinari curatellifolia Mw Pulp 27.1 1.8 3.0 1.5 5.5 88.2 - 1517

Kernel 97.1 - - 20.4 - - - -

Tz Pulp - - 0.71 0.07 23.5 - 3.13 -

Kernel - - 47.0 - - - - -

Syzygium guineense Mw Pulp 22.1 4.1 5.4 31.2 17.6 42.1 - 1923

Tz Pulp - - 5.43 4.75 6.98

Sclerocarya birrea Mw Pulp 15.0 1.0 - - - - -

Kernel 95.7 - - 74.8 - - - -

Kenya Pulp 13.7 4.7 - - - - -

Kernel 77.8 33.1 - - - - -

Strychnos cocculoides Mw Pulp 27.8 3.7 11.5 6.0 17.9 61.0 - 1390

Tz Pulp - - 0.47 9.86 - 1.91 -

Uapaca kirkiana Mw Pulp 58.1 4.5 17.0 22.9 8.1 47.5 - 1897

Tz Pulp - 6.03 4.32

Vitex doniana Mw Pulp 26.5 3.4 5.7 2.6 10.2 78.1 - 1445

Tz Pulp - - 0.26 0 .8 4.48 - 3.44 -

Vitex mombassae Tz Pulp - - 0.03 18.8 3.88 - 0.01 -

Vangueria infausta Mw Pulp 27.2 2.2 1.8 1.1 8.4 86.5 - 1456

Tan Pulp - - 0.01 5.19 23.5 - - -

Ziziphus mauritiana Mw Pulp 14.8 10.1 4.1 9.5 3.4 73.0 - 1588

Mw, Malawi; Tz, Tanzania; -, data not available.