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Food health
for some time, but then it can
be turned into many tasty items,
including roasted snacks and a
spread not unlike peanut butter.
Imagine I have this very tree in
my compound but had no clue
what it was until we did this
video. And that goes to show
you how much we must take
time to know, appreciate and
use the resources within our
environments.
2. Baobab
Few trees on earth engender
you not be worried when some respect like the baobab
globalist-owned corporations Cultivated Fruits (Adansonia digitata,
are making fruits and other Bombacaceae). Millions
crops seedless so that you can 1. Balanites (desert date, believe it receives divine power
buy and continue to buy their lalob) through the branches that look
dead-on-arrival GMO seeds? This small tree (Balanites like arms stretching skyward
How does that even make sense? aegyptiaca, Balanitaceae) (see the chapter on baobab as
tolerates heat and aridity so a vegetable in Volume II). Its
We are pretty sure that some well it thrives in the heart of the fruits sometimes attain the size
people will have a different Sahara. Deep-rooted and very of melons, and their tough outer
opinion about this and that’s spiny, it produces heavy yields casings enclose angular packets
ok. But to not talk about the of date-like fruits whose gummy, of a strange, sticky pulp. A
foolishness of modern-day yellow-tored pulp is more than few hours in the sun dries this
farming that loves to undermine a third sugar. Although these semisolid into a free-flowing,
natural processes for gain, is sweet treats are eaten raw, they soluble powder. The resulting
nothing but another form of are more commonly used as “baobab fruit flour” has a
slavery. ingredients in cooked dishes. gingerbread flavour enlivened
Some, however, are crushed and by a not unpleasant acid bite. It
We will be talking about two converted into drinks. The fruit is nutritious enough to be stirred
categories of “lost” African also yields a kernel roughly into warm water or milk to create
fruits, “The Cultivated Fruits” matching sesame and soybean a healthy drink. The fruit also
and “The Wild Fruits”. In in composition, being about contains nuts with an almond-
this article, we will talk about half oil and a third protein. To like taste. Although difficult to
cultivated fruits. become edible it must be boiled get at (owing to a thick shell) the
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