Baobab - the zero-waste superfood | DW English

[@dragos240alt]

In Madagascar these trees are the victim of major deforestation. They do not need a label like "superfood".

[@OG_HazelGrrl]

Did you watch Weird Explorers Baobab video too? It is really informative and heatbreaking

[@Ama-Elaini]

@@OG_HazelGrrl I saw that too, it's one of my favourite channels.

[@shintapp]

I think the fact that they are major victim of deforestation means they really need the label of superfood. More people interested in the fruit means the tree could generate more cash for locals. It won't be that useless tree they have to keep because random foreigners or government says so, but because it's useful and could give them food.

[@thephoenix2176]

😯 Oh no what wrong w/ ppl's brains! No worries Mother Nature will be here and thanks to all who wreck havoc will not!

[@bobobobobbbbo]

Exactly as @@jomsies says, if this becomes a western superfood, with a lead time of 25 years any existing tree will become very valuable. Far too valuable to cut down for charcoal as is happening in Madagascar.

[@ironfro5683]

I love how this woman thinks. Usually in Kenya, when people find a cash cow, we only think of making ourselves rich and famous instead of how it could benefit fellow countrymen.

[@mintou1977]

Please do your research,it’s in most African countries. In Senegal Baobab tree is a national symbol.

[@rsmith155]

Australia has many also

[@powbab]

We get our baobab from Senegal. Senegal is the best IMO

[@listenup2882]

@@rsmith155 imported.

[@collecter3456]

@@listenup2882 It's a different species than the ones in africa. They are naturally occuring.

[@bobobobobbbbo]

There's a really famous one in South Africa, in the Kruger park. They're beautiful.

[@kenneth6731]

Will those trees grow anywhere else on Earth? Those are a gift to Earth. Its survival must be ensured!

[@Veronique428]

Kenneth No it grows only in Africa, it’s an african trees.

[@educationtruth2101]

@@Veronique428 no it grows in st croix

[@Veronique428]

Education Truth Since in botanical world the trees of baobab is know to grow in Africa, the baobab is even know to symbolize Africa🤷🏾‍♀️

[@educationtruth2101]

@@Veronique428 bro it grows in Africa, st Croix and 3 other islands. My grandmother has a baobab tree in her backyard. Baobab does not only grow in africa.

[@listenup2882]

It originated in Africa but grows in tropical countries around the world including the islands of the Caribbean.

[@johnlobuin4212]

The Baobab tree should be protected at all cost. Since it has helped the residents of Taita Taveta.

[@superstory4u144]

That tree is very common in northern part of Nigeria, in Zimbabwe, Ivory coast and Ghana

[@purandharkubanooraya493]

Patel ji well appreciated your effort and above all you want it to be available for your people's...hats off for your thinking and your execution too.. I am sure you will take this super food to next level.. congratulations

[@Girl-on-fire]

I've been taking baobab powder and mixing it with hot water for a drink for a little over a month now and my skin had changed, it's glowing and everyone can actually notice the change.

[@nomore1980]

Sounds like you didn't eat good otherwise.

[@lindadube9380]

Perfect for skin mine is like a baby

[@nnenna3996]

@@lindadube9380 how you prepare it

[@nnenna3996]

How do you prepare it. I mean the quantity and water. Is it before breakfast or any time in the morning

[@Girl-on-fire]

@@nnenna3996 I mix two table spoons with 300 ml water just once a day.

[@OjaysReel]

25 years to fruit? How is the superfood label not going to negatively impact these trees, what with the crazy demand that follows such labels?

[@TititoDeBologay]

Ojay's Reel after those 25 years it fruits pretty much every year. The thing about Baobab is you would not eat a half/cup, the flavour is very rich and packs a lot of nutrients. Baobab has a very important place in most African cultures. I have seen 1st hand what happens if you even so much as damage a branch or the trunk. The question here is how us Africans can make it work for us in term of food security, malnutrition solution and economic income. The lady in the video is on the right track. We all want to avoid the quinoa disaster for local populations. Then again western consumers and sellers are always on the prowl for food fads, and most times than not and in an ironic way imo, those foods were shunned almost disappeared due to western. colonialism.

[@improver1849]

Ojay's Reel Yeah, it's interesting how he said current order levels are just not high enough. He really wants big orders. Does not compute.

[@OjaysReel]

Titito san I've eaten it. I'm a Kenyan living in the capital. I'm glad you seem to share the same concerns. Only recently we had a quail boom-bust cycle here that didn't snuff the appetite for food fads. International demand scares me in a nation whose successive governments have had little regard for fauna.

[@TititoDeBologay]

At the end of the day it's up to us to get onto it. I stopped expecting anything from any african governments tbh. From last time i went home to visit and went in countryside, locals are unaware of the value of those "superfoods"outside of their village, country and continent, it's food as far as they're concern. IMO, number one is to give them information and make them realise how a long term generational wealth is possible for their communities if they work smart and don't fall prey to hustlers and dream sellers. The interesting thing with said superfoods their value comes from the fact that the less processed the better in term of revenue, so it can play into the hands of those with low access to technologies. My fear is that African consumers ditch their healthier diets, and eat crap european food coz they aspire to that western lifestyle. EPA with Europe is not helping, Carrefour is starting to move in Cameroon,already present in Ivory Coast, with little intention of working with our farmers, there is no government to check the safety of the imported foods. It does not bode well, but for some reason I am confident, our foods are just too damn good.

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

There is a man in Burkina Faso who has a plantation.

[@AmisoMuyohira]

Africa is good 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@bangudin5216]

Sekarang baobab jd komoditi ekonomi yg banyak manfaat untuk pangan dan kosmetik....👍👍👍

[@courtneylawson4754]

Probase Nutrition superfood powders are by far superior to anything else I have tested and I have been taking superfood powders for a very long time.

[@mohamedswaray470]

I never knew this fruit is that important, or it health benefits at all.

[@DeadlyAquarious]

25 years before it fruits that is a loooooooong wait....

[@Kiyarose3999]

It all sounds good, but the single use multi layered packaging is an environmental nightmare, think of Lake Victoria that now has a bed of plastic at the bottom, that fish are eating, the locals then eat the fish. Lake Victoria is dying from single use plastic. PLEASE find a compostable or resusable containers/packaging alternative. You can’t recycle that packaging that is being used, even if you could, recycling doesn’t work in a linear extractive growth economy, there will ALWAYS be much more waste than what is recycled.

[@Manohari7]

this Lady is truly God's Servent... We all should learn from this Lady how to care for Mother Nature & all her's creatures

[@emonthakbe]

what about planting another baobab tree?

[@crazykeejan6981]

@@SueLall1008 True

[@edjoultz9678]

they take ages to grow

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

People do plant them

[@ryantew3777]

God bless

[@debbiehenri345]

I'm glad to see that a few people are now seeing the potential for this tree, which is becoming more threatened in Madagascar. However, I hope we don't see this tree farmed as yet another monoculture crop, to the detriment of other species native to the countries concerned. It would be a very good idea to introduce other tree and shrub species, perhaps those that can be harvested at other times of the year, as soon as the Baobabs grow to a certain height. This way it will stop the spread of pathogens, of which there is at least one affecting Baobabs causing them to suddenly rot and die even when young.

[@fabdev9704]

the tree is on their land, its FREE.

[@diasporadiaries7053]

how do i get in contact with the company. I am interested in the pulp powder extractor machine. please can someone help me ?

[@listenup2882]

The Africans need to sell their own Baobab. Why do they need Patel to sell for them?

[@iamaku09]

she is African of Indian descent. Born and and raised in Kenya, so were her parents and likely her grandparents since Indians have been migrating to Africa since the 1800s.

[@listenup2882]

@@iamaku09 the Africans have the intellectual capacity to do this themselves.

[@ataurusqueenofzion916]

@@iamaku09 you mean' conquering'

[@ferialmoola8479]

She thought to do it and set up a business. noone stopped anyone else from doing the same. Africa always wants someone to blame.

[@badruddinmoiyyedi2506]

we also have this fruit plant in india

[@yaminibhamare1148]

Keep it up Amisha..

[@hajalameh]

Itchy business, that bark will make you scratch yourself to death, I know so, been there, done that. We used to make dolls out of the young fruit with its hairy top....I love those days.

[@paschalmwaipungu5634]

I'm looking for this machine

[@lindadube9380]

Where r u?

[@bloodlove93]

considering the time they take to fruit,plus the limited fruits per tree etc, among super fruits\foods, i won't bother growing this one,acai and goji berries are easy enough, and this offers nothing unique other fruits won't give me.

[@tombimashri8149]

But they shouldn t ne picked until they are ready orelse the taste will not bectoo good

[@itvlogah3735]

I hug one baobab and my wife got angry.

[@matinajazmine]

🤣🤣🤣

[@thephoenix2176]

I have discovered this wonderful fruit! Thanks

[@neeshu]

how can Amisha Patel be a local Kenyan hehe she is an Indian but good work none the less should be done in entire Africa

[@lynnetitus648]

Duh, maybe she was born there? Plenty of Indians leave India.

[@brandysara]

There are lots of indian descendents in Kenya and Uganda from the colonial area. It's not my job to educate you but you can google it. You might want to google why there are indians in Trinidad and Guayana as well ;)

[@wangarindungu1286]

Why are african Americans in the USA? If you can answer that then you can also your own question.

[@DecinergyAt]

SuperFOOD ... ;-) 😉✌

[@INFJ_YJ]

Amisha Patel seems to be Indian i guess? 🤔🤔

[@wildmansolow2]

You know it

[@236Mars]

Yes, but more importantly Kenyan, and even more importantly, a very helpful human being.

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

There are a lot of people in Africa of South Asian descent

[@listenup2882]

Yes, Indians control Kenyan trade. The richest man in Kenya is an Indian.

[@juliusebola9712]

nothing gets past you

[@ClintOrris]

2:27 So it's the Indians who are actually making the profit on it. Not the Africans. Yet another example of Africans failing to capitalize on their resources until someone else does it for them.

[@davidalmario7212]

can baobab grow in asian country?..

[@allankiplimo9752]

for as long as its within the tropics. those countries above australia like philipines ,Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, abd Singapore

[@leonardobenigni3183]

Super foods doesn't exisist

[@iamaku09]

just a term that describes food with high nutritional benefits. don't get hang up on it.

[@italamariapaula8460]

How to I contact you ,I am interested in learning

[@eteimojoy1869]

What types of diseases does it cure

[@Skuzzybebe]

none like any other holistic medicine

[@debtrunner7929]

@@SueLall1008 YES some of them Can. you still need to open your eyes and learn how Science And the World really Works.

[@nomore1980]

For people who already eat poorly, it can help their nutrition.

[@syedshahalihussainsyedshah1806]

🌳🌳🌳🌽🌽🌽🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Maxx-jo8so]

dont cut trees

[@fawziaabdurrahman2251]

unga wa mabuyu umekuwa ukiuzwa marikiti toka kitambo. labda nairobi ndio haujafika. mtu akinunua kitu kutoka kwa mkulima haiwi yeye ni 'grower' grower ni yule mkulima ambaye ameupanda huo mti kwake. good business idea though

[@YouUceireTube]

She's exploiting them, of course

[@jetsjetsjets1044]

She is not Kenyan!!!

[@crazykeejan6981]

She is she is a kenyan of indian descent from the 1800s

[@nomore1980]

@@crazykeejan6981 So you're basically saying there's a Indian population that does not intermix. Basically, little India in Kenya?

[@iamaku09]

@@nomore1980 no, she is saying she is Kenyan of Indian descent, just like how you have Afro-British, African-American, Indo-Caribbean etc. Some mix, some don't.