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Food health


















































          The “Lost” Wild






          Fruits of Africa








           ARE THEY WILD OR JUST UNCORRUPTED?                                   thrived with these fruits both as

           Msingi Team                                                          food and medicine.

              rankly speaking, we do not     Masais and the many other

          Fthink there is anything wild,     nomadic communities that roam      Anyways, here is a list of
          including fruits. Wild fruits are   the plains and savannahs of East   African fruits considered wild.
          just normal fruits that have not   Africa with their cattle, these
          been compromised or tampered       so-called  wild  fruits  are  just   1. Aizen (Mukheit)
          with by the greed of man. And      normal fruits and for thousands    The aizen or mukheit (Boscia

          here is why we said so. To the     of years, they have lived and      senegalensis,     Capparaceae)
                                                                                occurs in a vast swath across the



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