A review of commercially important African medicinal plants showed Africa is home to more than 80 valuable commercial species, including phytomedicines (e.g. Harpagophytum procumbens and Pelargonium sidoides) & functional foods (e.g. Adansonia digitata and Hibiscus sabdariffa). Van Wyk 2015

Reviewed literature research of the nutritional composition of ten selected indigenous fruits from sub-Saharan Africa, including A. digitata. Substantial compositional differences were found among as well as within the different fruit species. Vitamins, apart from vitamin C, were rarely reported. Stadlmayr 2013