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Full List of Fruits Kakadu plum
Introduction of Kakadu plumDescription of Kakadu plumNutritional Value of Kakadu plumThe World’s Richest Source of Vitamin CCommercial Applications
Kakadu plum
Scientific name - Terminalia ferdinandiana
The kakadu plum is identified with several common names like Billy Goat Plum, Green Plum, Salty Plum, Wild Plum Murunga, Marnybi, Manmohpan, Kullari Plum and Gubinge. Indigenous to Australia, this flowering plant is from the family of Combretaceae. It's widespread throughout the tropical woodlands from northwestern Australia to eastern Arnhem Land. There is yet another distinguishing feature and it is the presence of vitamin C concentration; compared with 50 mg/100g for oranges, it may be as high as 1000-5300 mg/100g perhaps the highest known of any fruit. Most importantly, the mature ripe fruits or fruit pulp, freeze dried fruits are used.
Sharing some characteristics of almond, they are same size and the fruit is yellow-green in color with about 2 centimetres long and 1 centimetre in diameter and has a short beak at the tip with one large seed. The kakadu plum when compared to blueberries shows up a value of 204.8 Trolox equivalents/g which is less of 39.45 Trolox equivalents/g per in blueberries. The fruit is used as bush tucker by the Australian Aborigines and ripens during the month of March. Though the fruit can be eaten raw, they can also be made into a jam.
Nutritional Value of Kakadu plum
| Vitamins | value |
| Energy | 89 KJ |
| Moisture | 76.2 g |
| Nitrogen | 0.13 g |
| Protein | 0.8 g |
| Fat | 0.5 g |
| Ash | 1.0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 0.0 g |
| Total Dietary Fibre | 7.1 g |
| Calcium | 62 mg |
| Copper | 0.900 mg |
| Iron | 2.4 mg |
| Magnesium | 40 mg |
| Phosphorus | 24 mg |
| Potassium | 261 mg |
| Sodium | 13 mg |
| Zinc | 0.7 |
| Thiamin | 0.05 mg |
| Riboflavin | 0.04 mg |
| Niacin Equivalents | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin C | 2907 mg |
The World's Richest Source of Vitamin C
As already mentioned, the Kakadu Plum is known for its vitamin C content. Having said that, it has been identified universally as the single natural food source with the highest vitamin C content on the planet!
For a 100g of fruit, it contains 3000mg of vitamin C which is over 50 times the concentration found in oranges. No other plant in the world has the same level of vitamin C, anti-oxidants and bioactive, none of which are nowhere to be found through our state-of-the-art processing methods.
The role of Vitamin C
Keeping your immune system, bones, teeth, and gums strong and healthy, it has allergy-fighting properties in addition.
Countless commercial applications, quite a few reputed health and cosmetic organizations wide-reaching have acknowledged the Kakadu Plum as a considerably useful ingredient in certain products that include:
Skin & Hair Care Products
Vitamin Supplements and beverages, capsules or powders.
Pharmacological products, Bio Chemical products and more.
Used in gourmet bush foods such as chutneys, jams and pickles.
