Abstract:
The juice of Sclerocarya birrea fruit was evaluated for its nutritional and antinutritional
compositions. The results show that the total solid, ash, crude protein, crude lipid, available
carbohydrate and energy value are 12.32g/100cm3, 5.05%, 3.31%, 1.30%, 90.35% and
386.34kcal/100g dry weight respectively. The results of minerals content indicate that, the juice is a
good source of both macro and micro elements with calcium as predominant. The 100 cm3 juice
contained reasonable amount of pectin (2.10g), vitamin C (0.49g), glucose (0.21g) and sucrose (0.76g).
Concentrations of hydrocyanic acid, nitrate, oxalate, and phytate are lower than the reference toxic
standard level. The juice of the plant could have a potential nutritional uses.
