African osage orange

Maclura africana

fruit

Slightly sweet fruits, eaten by birds and by people.

Origin

Southern and East Africa

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

The ripe fruit is rinsed and eaten raw, spitting out the seeds or stone; the skin is left if it is tough.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

It is also called the thorny mulberry: a cousin of mulberries and of the Osage orange of America.