Shea Tree Nuts (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Shea Tree Nuts

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University of Oregon-led research in Burkina Faso has found a long history of using nuts from the shea tree. The oil from the nuts provides the primary cooking oil in the region, and it exported and used in skin cream, hair conditioner, lip gloss and soap. The nuts have been harvested since at least A.D. 100.

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Courtesy of Daphne Gallagher

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