Wild Harvest Baobab Leaves Extract

Wild Harvest Baobab Leaves Extract 2:1-  Fluid Hydroglyceric

                     For Organic Cosmetics Nutricutical Formulations


The baobab fruit is classed as a functional food ("rich in specific nutrients and phyto-chemicals and are promoted as being able to improve health condition and/or disease prevention."). The baobab fruit has six times as much vitamin C as oranges, 50% more calcium than spinach and is a plentiful source of anti-oxidants, those disease-fighting molecules credited with helping reduce the risk of everything from cancer to heart disease.

Baobab Leaves Extract
Solid to liquid rapid extraction at low temperature (25°).


To maintain the high level of nutrients present in the pulp we immediately work fruits after opening. Only two hours from opening to final packaging.

Packaging: 10-20 Kg  
Preservatives: Potassium Sorbate 0.20 - 0.30  % p/p Sodium Benzoate   0.20 - 0.50  % p/p
Shelf Life: 24 Months
Availability: 500 Kg/Year maximal production
Delivery: Worldwide
Dosage: 0,4--1%
Nutritional Information: Alpha and beta carotenes, calcium, mucilage, rubbers, uronic acid, ramnose, acid glutamic, tannins, vitamin c.

Vitamins


Wild Harvest baobab fruit pulp contains high concentrations of Vitamin C and contains Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3 & B6. 
Vitamins have different functions in the body:
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is important for growth and repair of tissues in the body. It is an antioxidant, promotes healthy gums, assists the body absorb iron and helps wounds heal.

Calcium and other minerals

Wild Harvest baobab fruit pulp is rich in Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Iron. Pregnant women in Africa use baobab fruit pulp as a source of calcium during pregnancy and lactation. 

Calcium is one of the most important minerals for growth, and maintenance and reproduction of the body. Calcium helps maintain healthy bones and teeth. It also helps with blood clotting, nerve signalling, muscle contraction and relaxation and release of certain hormones.

Phosphorus is used in the formation of bones and teeth. Phosphorus also plays an important role in the utilization of carbohydrates and fats, synthesis of protein for growth and maintenance and repair of cells and tissues.

Potassium is necessary to maintain the water balance between the cells and body fluids. And plays an important role in cellular enzymes and contraction of muscles

Iron is important for the making of oxygen-carrying proteins, haemoglobin and myoglobin. 

 Wild Harvest Pharma Baobab fruit pulp is rich in Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Iron. Pregnant women in Africa use baobab fruit pulp as a source of calcium during pregnancy and lactation. 

Anti-inflammatory, Antiviral properties                                                                                                                                                                                Studies were carried out in the laboratory showed that doses between 400 and 800 mg/kg determine a marked anti-inflammatory effect and are able to reduce inflammation induced in the limb with formalin. This activity may be attributed to the presence of sterols, saponins and triterpenes in the aqueous extract. 

Anti-diarrheal properties

The typical diet of indigenous African populations, in particular children, is characterised by a low-calorie, low-protein vegetable and floury diet, lacking milk, and may potentially lead to rickets and cause organic disorders such as diarrhea and/or dysentery. The particularity of Baobab fruit pulp is that it is effective against diarrhea. 

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Baobab Supply

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Functional food Baobab could bring healthy returns for Africa

Multinational food giants like Danone and Unilever and specialist dairy groups like Valio to a small army of nutrition scientists -- searching for the next carefully engineered miracle food.


No one knows yet whether it will be a yogurt that helps slow down the progress of Alzheimer's disease or a milky drink that staves off depression. But it will undoubtedly yield its inventor very healthy returns. Baobab as a food additive is a major contender because of its phyto chemical and health prevention properties.

Over the past decade the market for cholesterol-lowering spreads, immunity-boosting drinks and other functional foods has flourished as food manufacturers have latched on to the idea of selling food as an alternative to medicine.


French dairy and water giant Danone is undoubtedly the first multinational to have grasped the potential of health as a motto and marketing tool, selling yogurt in pharmacies in Barcelona as far back as 1919. During the next decades though, it expanded well beyond yogurts. But then in 2007, convinced it would grow faster if it refocused its portfolio on health, it took a major step and sold its less virtuous biscuit division to Kraft Foods it was a return to its roots.
he health obsession: prevention is better than cure. What Danone has latched onto is our growing obsession with treating the body as a temple.


"Like any trend, health first became a focus with the early-adopter group. We're now in the phase where it's in the mainstream, and it's going gangbusters," said Barbara Katz, president of HealthFocus International, a consulting firm specialized in food and nutrition issues.


"Back in the nineties, the focus was on low-fat, low-sugar products. That's how we were defining healthy. Then it became what we were adding rather than what we were taking away: omega 3, calcium, fiber, probiotics," she added.


The reason for the extraordinary success of functional foods and nutraceuticals -- a subcategory that further blurs the line between food and medicine and includes products such as special nutrition-heavy yogurts for the elderly -- is simple.

In developed markets, where the population is aging, life expectancy is rising and the demands of modern life putting many under strains, the notion that eating particular foods enriched in components like antioxidants or fatty acids can help prevent diseases has struck a powerful chord with consumers. Many, after all, would rather eat a fiber-enriched yogurt every day than pop laxatives. The food aisles of supermarkets, loaded with immunity-boosting yogurts, antioxidant smoothies and a wide array of dietary supplements, are a testament to the success of the idea that eating the right foods can make us healthier. Baobab is a prime example of this trend.


For the food companies, and increasingly some of the pharmaceutical ones, ignoring the trend is a risky bet. The global market for functional foods, including sport drinks and dietary supplements, is expected to reach $262 billion in 2012 from $150 billion in 2002, according to Euromonitor. Excluding dietary supplements and drinks, it should still grow to $117 billion in 2012 from $102.5 billion in 2008. It is the fastest growing food category and has proved particularly resistant to the economic downturn.


Marketing may be a key component of success, but so is innovation.
And in that realm, smaller, narrowly focused firms like Finnish dairy group Valio are giving the big boys like Nestle a run for their money.

"Innovation can sometimes be quicker in a smaller company. That's why it's always interesting to keep an eye on the smaller brands in the health section of the store," said HealthFocus' Katz.


Still, scale has its advantages, and larger firms can more easily afford the years of research and development it often takes to develop a new product with a key health benefit. The R&D investment, for firms big and small, can represent quite a drain on cash flow, particularly at a time of economic turmoil, but the rewards of hitting on a successful product cannot be overstated.


Together, Activia, Actimel and Danonino, three Danone brands focused on health benefits, generated sales of 4.4 billion euros ($6.5 billion) last year, representing more than half of the group's dairy division.

Baobab Symbol of The African Savanna

The tree sheds its leaves during the dry season, which can last most of the year depending on the climate zone. Leaves are digitate, normally having 5 leaflets when mature. The leaflets have entire margins and are elliptic to obovate-elliptic, with acuminate apex and a decurrent base.


Mature leaf size may reach a diameter of 20 cm. The flowers bloom during the wet season and the dry season as well. They are very large and suspended on long peduncles. The fruit is bottle or cucumber shaped and develops 5-6 months after florescence. It has a woody outer shell, 7.5-54 cm long x 7.5-20 cm wide, covered by velvety yellowish, sometimes greenish hairs.


The internal fruit pulp is split into mealy agglomerates that enclose several reniform seeds (approximately 10 mm long) (Sidibe and Williams, 2002). Because of its great size and diffusion, the Baobab is an extremely the impressive tree. It symbolizes the African savanna better than any other plant. Its spongy wood does not burn; therefore the plant is protected from fire. Hollowed out baobab trunks in the vicinity of villages are used for water storage.


In areas where the baobab tree grows, there are traditions that prohibit communities from cutting down the baobab tree and any other fruit bearing trees. Where there has been extensive deforestation, this has resulted in a situation whereby the baobab and other fruit trees are the only trees to remain standing (Kurebgaseka, 2005). The baobab tree is also a good fodder tree especially for game. Cattle eat the leaves and flowers that would otherwise fall to the ground. Baobab roots can be tapped where water is a problem.