Incorporation of 5 or 15% Adansonia digitata (baobab fruit pulp) into a composite cereal porridge did not affect provitamin A carotenoid bioaccessibility or intestinal intake of provitamin A carotenoids, while 25% did reduce bioaccessibilty but not intestinal intake by Caco-2 cells.
Debelo 2020
Scientific Name:
Adansonia digitata
Family Name:
Malvaceae
Common Name:
baobab
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Inclusion of moringa, roselle, and baobab plus a provitamin A source considerably increased iron and zinc bioavailability when added as fortification to pearl millet at 10 parts:100 parts pearl millet in the diets of at-risk communities in the semi-arid tropics.
van der Merwe 2019
Higher levels of fermented baobab fruit pulp flour as a starter in the fermentation of sorghum flour improved its physicochemical, nutritional, functional, rheological, and microbiological properties.
Makawi 2019
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH BY: Dr J Mohanasundaram, MD, PhD
March 2016
MAJOR REVISION BY: Eli Scheinman, MES
January 2018
LATEST UPDATES BY: Antonia Kaz
February 2023