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Dietary Supplements: Different Classifications, and Top Supplement Brands

Dietary Supplements, Different Classifications of supplements, and Top Supplement Brands

Dietary supplements include dietary ingredients like vitamins, minerals, herbs and botanicals, amino acids, “dietary substances” such as enzymes, probiotics, extracts, concentrates, metabolites, or combination of constituents. According to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, a dietary supplement “is a product (other than tobacco) that is intended to supplement the diet, which … Read more

Coconut (Cocos nucifera): Different Types, Important Health Benefits, Side Effects

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Coconut, also called “Cocos nucifera” is a tropical tree belonging to the Arecaceae family and grows in a humid and warm environment. Although, we might assume that the meat, coconut oil or coconut water are the same because they are all gotten from the same source, but they are not. Coconut tree is indigenous to … Read more

Avocado (Persea americana), Avocado Oil: Health Benefits, Nutrition, Side Effects

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Avocado (Persea americana) also called alligator pear, is a green-skinned fruit with a light green flesh, large seed, thick pale yellow pulp. The shape is similar to that of an egg. Avocado is a tropical and subtropical fruit that belongs to the family Lauraceae, and is indigenous to Central America and Mexico. Among the varieties, … Read more

African Bush Mango, Dika nut, Ogbono (Irvingia gabonensis): Nutrition, Health Benefits

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Irvingia gabonensis, is a tropical plant belonging to the Irvingiaceae family. It is also called Bush mango, dika nut, dika nut tree, African mango, rainy season bush mango, sweet bush mango, wild mango (English), ‘manguier sauvage’, ‘chocolatier’, Ogbono (Igbo), Oro, Oyin (Yoruba), Ogwe, Ohere (Edo). Though the fruit is similar to the mango fruit (Mangifera … Read more

Sweet Detar (Detarium microcarpum): Exciting Nutritional and Health Benefits

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Sweet Detar, tallow tree (Detarium microcarpum) Exciting Nutritional and Health Benefits

Detarium microcarpum, also called sweet detar, small detar, tallow tree, is a tropical plant that belongs to the leguminosae family, Caesalpiniaceae. Sweet detar fruit has an edible pulp and seed. The pulp is a rich source of minerals, sugar, and vitamin C. The seed contains many nutritional compositions, and hydrocolloids which impacts a good binding … Read more

Apricot Seed or Kernel: Important Health Benefits.

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Apricot seed or kernel is obtained from the fruit of apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.), a plant belonging to the Rosaceae family. The plant is grown in many countries like China, India, Iran, Siberia, Uzbekistan, but Turkey remains the largest producer worldwide. The edible fruit of apricot is a drupe, which is ovoid, or amygdaloid with … Read more

Apricot Fruit (Prunus armeniaca): Nutritional and Health Benefits

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Apricot fruit (Prunus armeniaca) also called Armenian plum is a deciduous plant in the Rosaceae family. The drupe resembles and are related to peaches and plums. The Latin genus, Prunus means plum or cherry tree. It is native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but may have originated from China or Japan, or Korea. Turkey, … Read more

Black Plum (Vitex doniana): Nutritional and Health Benefits of the Fruit, leaves.

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Nutritional and Health Benefits of Black Plum (Vitex doniana)

Vitex doniana (black plum) is a deciduous flowering tree from the genus Vitex (Verbanaceae). The genus is made up of trees and shrubs of medicinal values. Vitex doniana can grow up to 20 m height, and has a heavy, rounded crown. The bark is rough, pale brown or greyish-white. It is widespread in tropical Africa, … Read more

Pineapple: Important Nutritional and Health Benefits of Pineapple Juice, and Fruit

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Pineapple (Ananas comosus, formerly Bromelia ananas and Bromelia comosa) is an important plant belonging to the Bromeliaceae family. It is a fruit in high demand, just behind bananas and citrus. The plant is a perennial plant that can grow up to 1.5 m. . It has a terminal inflorescence and a terminal multiple fruit. Pineapple … Read more

Nutritional and Health Benefits of African Breadfruit (Treculia africana), Ukwa

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African breadfruit (Treculia africana Decne), is an underutilized food, which is found mostly in West and Central Africa. It has edible seeds which is used to prepare a popular delicacy especially among the Igbos in the Eastern part of Nigeria. It is also popular in Ghana, Cameroon, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Congo basin, Mozambique etc. … Read more