PROBIOTIC ISOLATED FROM AFRICAN STAR APPLE (***Chrysophyllum albidum***)

African star apple Chrysophyllum albidum, a wildly grown fruit in the Southwestern part of Nigeria, it belongs to the family of trees known as Sapotaceae. Its fruit is commonly known as “Agbalumo” or “Osan” (Yoruba) or “Udala” (Igbo) in the local languages. It is pale yellow with pink coloured endocarp and relished by children and adults when in season. Its fully ripe fruit becomes available from December through April. The pink-coloured pulp and the whitish cover of the brown-coloured seeds of the fruit are consumed, while the empty pale yellow pericarp is often discarded by some people. The plant often grows to a height of 36.5m though it may be smaller. It has in recent times become a crop of commercial value in Nigeria. The fruit has been found to have high content of ascorbic acid with 1000 to 3,330 mg of ascorbic acid per 100gm of edible fruit or about 100 times that of oranges and 10 times of that of guava or cashew.

The fruits are not usually harvested from the trees; they are left to drop naturally to the forest floor, from where they are picked. The fruit pulp is used in table jelly manufacture and also useful in the formation of soft drink in beverage industry. Although, research work had been carried out on the nutritive value of pulp, storage of the fruits and physical properties of the seeds of African star apple but there is dearth of information on the physicochemical properties of the components of the fruit.

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Traditionally,Chrysophyllum albidum, African star apple (Ud0ara)(Agbalumo) seeds that are used as anklets in dancing in Nigeria. furthermore, young boys, use the seeds to play a peculiar out-door game.

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PROPERTIES

1. Edibility Rating: Good for consumption

2. Medicinal Rating: Good to treat infections

3. Other Uses Rating:

4. Habit: Evergreen Tree

5. Height: 30.00 m

6. Cultivation Status: Cultivated, Wild.

Chrysophyllum albidum

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Ericales

Family: Sapotaceae

Genus: Chrysophyllum

Species: C. albidum

Binomial name

Chrysophyllum albidum

Bifidobacterium bifidum, also a probiotic culture inhabit within the mucus lining of the large intestine and/or vaginal tract. B. bifidum creates favorable changes in pH levels by producing lactic and acetic acids thereby preventing pathogenic bacteria and yeast from invading.

What are the benefits of B. bifidum
This plant, according to reseached which shown the high quality of effect of treating clinical infections, such as following,

1. Infection by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori),
2. Constipation,
3. Restoration of intestinal bacteria after chemotherapy,
4. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
5. Lung infections,
6. Ulcerative colitis,
7. Certain kinds of diarrhea,
8. Necrotizing enterocolitis, a type of infection in the intestinal lining caused by harmful bacteria
   pouchitis, a complication of surgery for ulcerative colitis.

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The Bifidobacterium bifidum is not adviceable to usefor the treatment of the following infections or diseases,

1. infant development
2. aging
3. cancer
4. liver problems
5. stomach problems
6. mumps
7. breast pain
8. infections related to chemotherapy
9. high LDL cholesterol (aka the “bad” cholesterol)
10. low HDL cholesterol (aka the “good” cholesterol)

Chrysophyllum albidum, This has differents species, species been noted to be of great nutritional, social, medicinal and traditional importance. However, the huge economic importance ...

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