The clean label trend among consumers is encouraging brands to formulate using natural flavours, and even 'no added flavours', creating space for botanical ingredients. “Flavour remains an important ...

Traditionally known for its Mabuyu fruits, baobab tree has been a source of food and medicine. Baobab powder from dried and ground fruit is rich in Vitamin C and fibres, while baobab seed oil is used ...

This story was originally reported by Edward McAllister, Editing by Anna Willard for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Until recently baobabs were only tapped for local use but in a major business shift ...

Many recognise it as a common sight in dry areas while others look at it as an upside-down tree that lives to inspire folklores but the iconic African baobab tree has recently topped the global ...

Since she was a child, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year ...

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old ...

Nestlé is just one of the large food and beverage firms investigating the potential of the African 'superfruit', according to an ingredients supplier. Could this be the year that baobab hits the big ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...