Data Sheet

Shea Butter

Product Name:
Shea Butter

Scientific Name:
Butyrespermum pakii

Common Name:
Shea butter

Assay:
99.4% oil, 1% (max)free fatty acids,
0.01% impurities, 32% iodine value,
0.7 red, 3 yellow

Appearance:
Off white to yellow

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients:
7% unsaponifiable

Moisture Content:
0.51%

Particle Size:
0.5-1.0mm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic Container

Net Weight:
20kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
July-March

Available Volume Per Annum:
1000 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Dispels Sleep and Boosts Mental Awareness
  • Flavour for Soft Drink
  • Serve as base for production of chocolate and wine
  • Preparation of non-alcoholic beverages
  • Used in the pharmaceutical industry

Kola Nut

Product Name:
Kola

Scientific Name:
Cola Nitida

Common Name:
Kola Nut

Assay:
8% crude protein, 1,58% caffeine,6.7%
total polyphenol, 83.3% nitrogen
free extract

Appearance:
White, Red and Pink

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Moisture Content:
5%

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Jute Sacks

Net Weight:
50kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
July-March

Available Volume Per Annum:
1000 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Dispels Sleep and Boosts Mental Awareness
  • Flavour for Soft Drink
  • Serve as base for production of chocolate and wine
  • Preparation of non-alcoholic beverages
  • Used in the pharmaceutical industry

Monellin

Product Name:
Monellin

Scientific Name:
Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii

Common Name:
Serendipity berries

Assay:
Monellin

Appearance:
Off white (freeze-dried) powder

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Pulp

Active Ingredients:
Monelin

Moisture Content:
6-8%

Practicle Size:
0.5-1.Omm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic Bags

Net Weight:
200kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
May-July, October-December

Available Volume Per Annum:
20 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Natural sweet protein Low Calorie Diets
  • Sweetner in food industry (3,000 times sweeter than sucrose on weight basis)

Kombo Butter

Product Name:
Kombo butter

Scientific Name:
Pycnanthus angolensis

Common Name:
African nutmeg

Assay:
75% Myristic acid,
25% Kombic acid

Appearance:
Dark brown butter

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seeds

Active Ingredients:
Cetyl Myristoleic acid (CMO)

Moisture Content:
1-2%

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
0.2 CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
0.2 CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic containers

Net Weight:
20kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
December-May

Available Volume Per Annum:
200 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Relieves pain and disability of people who suffer from Arthritis
  • Myristoleic acid lubricates joints and entire body
  • It also functions as immune system modulator
  • Effective in controlling auto-immune diseases
  • It mediates inflammatory processes
  • Applied in cosmetic industry

Miracle Berries

Product Name:
Miraculin

Scientific Name:
Synsepalum dulcificum

Common Name:
Sweet berries

Assay:
Miraculin

Appearance:
Pink - Red (freeze - dried) powder

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Pulp

Active Ingredients:
Miraculin

Moisture Content:
6-8%

Particle Size 0.5-1.Omm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
< 1,500CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
< 1,500CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic Bags

Net Weight:
200kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
May-July, October-December

Available Volume Per Annum:
10 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Masks the taste of bitter medicines, citrus
    fruitjuices, fermented beverages and dairy products
  • Applied as substitute for sucrose
  • Flavoured enhancement

Annatto

annatto

Product Name:
Annatto

Scientific Name:
Bixa orellera

Common Name:
Bixa

Assay:

Appearance:
Grian-like red seeds

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients:
Bixin

Moisture Content:
6-8%

Particle Size 8-10mm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Polystyrene sacks

Net Weight:
50kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
December-March

Available Volume Per Annum:
200 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Used as natural food color in butter, cheese,
    margarine, chocolate, smoked fish and pastry

Afromomum

annatto

Product Name:
Afromomum

Scientific Name:
Afromomum meleguetta

Common Name:
Grains of paradise, Meleguetta pepper

Assay:

Appearance:
Brown seeds

Odor & Flavor:
Aromatic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients:

Moisture Content:
8-10%

Particle Size 0.4-0.5cm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Polystyrene sacks

Net Weight:
50kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
February-June

Available Volume Per Annum:
120 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Adds flavor to beers, spirits, lemonades, vinegarand sauces
  • Enhances flavor of hot alcoholic drinks
  • The oil is used in the perfumery industry
  • Mix with brandy and drink as aphrodisiac Has anti-microbial properties.

Mucuna

annatto

Product Name:
Mucuna

Scientific Name:
Mucuna pruriens

Common Name:
Velvet bean, Cowage

Assay:

Appearance:
Off white

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients:
L- Dopa

Moisture Content:
6-8%

Particle Size 0.5-1.Omm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
0.3 CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
0.3 CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic containers

Net Weight:
20kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
July-October, December-March

Available Volume Per Annum:
150 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Management of Parkinson disease ((increases testosterone level))
  • Enhances mental alertness
  • Improves coordination
  • Used as aphrodisiac

Calabar Beans

annatto

Product Name:
Calabar beans

Scientific Name:
Physostigma venenosum

Common Name:
Calabar beans

Assay:
Brown

Appearance:
Off white

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients:
Physostigmine

Moisture Content:
6-8%

Particle Size < 8-10%

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Jute Sacks

Net Weight:
25kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
All Year Round

Available Volume Per Annum:
100 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Controls glaucoma, Adie’s syndrome
  • Myasthenia Gravis
  • Improves memory in Alzeimer’s disease
  • It serves as antidote to atropine poisoning and
    other anti-depressant drug poisoninc

Boswellia

annatto

Product Name:
Boswellia

Scientific Name:
Boswellia serrata

Common Name:

Assay:
Boswellic Acid

Appearance:
Fire Powder

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Gum

Color:
Gum

Moisture Content:

Particle Size

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
< 1,000 CFU/g

Total Plate Count:
< 11,000 CFU/g

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic Container

Net Weight:
20kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
All Year Round

Available Volume Per Annum:
20 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Applied in cosmetic and fragrance indstry

Desmodium

annatto

Product Name:
Desmodium

Scientific Name:
Desmodium adscendans

Common Name:
Desmodium

Assay:
Boswellic Acid

Appearance:
Brown

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristic

Part of Plant Used:
Leaves

Moisture Content:
< 5%

Particle Size 0.5 1.0mm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Plastic Container

Net Weight:
20kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
All Year Round

Available Volume Per Annum:
200 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Has anti-asthmatic properties
  • Has an anti-allergic activity
  • Manages dysmenorrhoea and diarrhoea

Xylopia

annatto

Product Name:
Xylopia

Scientific Name:
Xylopia aethiopica

Common Name:
Ethiopian pepper, Guinea pepper

Assay:

Appearance:
Dark brown-Black

Odor & Flavor:
Aromatic, Pungent

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Moisture Content:
< 8-10%

Particle Size 3-4cm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
0.4CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
0.4CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Jute Sacks

Net Weight:
25kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
December-March, June-September

Available Volume Per Annum:
150 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Has a mint property
  • Mild laxative
  • Controls sore throat and chest infections
  • Used as preservative in cookery industry

Prekese

annatto

Product Name:
Prekese

Scientific Name:
Tetrapluera tetraptera

Common Name:
Aildan

Assay:

Appearance:
Black

Odor & Flavor:
Aromatic

Part of Plant Used:
Pod

Moisture Content:
8-10%

Particle Size 20-30cm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
< 1,500CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
< 1,500CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Polypyrene sacks

Net Weight:
50kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
August-February

Available Volume Per Annum:
100 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Controls cholesterol level.
  • Promotes production of breast milk
  • Enhances healing of reproductive wounds
  • Controls hypertension
  • Scent used as perfume

Voacanga

annatto

Product Name:
Voacanga

Scientific Name:
Voacanga africana

Common Name:
Voacanga

Assay:

Appearance:
Grain-like brown seeds

Odor & Flavor:
Characteristics

Part of Plant Used:
Seed

Active Ingredients: Vincamine,Vinburine, Voacamine, Ibogaine, Iboluteine, Iboxygaine

Moisture Content:
8-10%

Particle Size 8-10mm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
< 1,500CFU/gm

Total Plate Count:
< 1,500CFU/gm

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging
Polypyrene sacks

Net Weight:
50kg

Storage:
Cool Dry Place

Season:
July-September

Available Volume Per Annum:
450 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Manages Alzheimer’s disease (enhances memory)
  • Suppresses drug addiction
  • They are hypotensive

Griffonia

annatto

Product Name: Griffonia

Scientific Name: Griffonia simplicifolia

Common Name: Griffonia

Assay: 10-12% 5-Hydroxy Tryptophan

Appearance: Yellowish green

Odor & Flavor: Characteristic

Part of Plant Used: Seed

Active Ingredients: 5- HTP

Moisture Content: 6-8%

Particle Size: 0.125-0.50mm

Microbial Analysis

Yeast & Mould:
Nil

Total Plate Count:
Nil

E Coli:
Negative

Salmonella:
Negative

Presentation

Packaging: Polystyrene sacks

Net Weight: 50kg

Storage: Cool Dry Place

Season: December-April

Available Volume Per Annum: 300 Metric Tons

Potential Applications

  • Relieve's anxiety (anti-depressant)
  • Enhances sleep
  • Suppresses appetite