Sweet-lovers around the globe already consume the nut as shea butter, which is used to make chocolate, as well as in products like margarine and as a cooking oil.

The shea tree, or more accurately the fruit that grows on these trees, is considered “women’s gold” in the shea belt that expands across parts of West Africa. An estimated 16 million women in this ...

Shea butter is a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). In Uganda shea butter or moo yao as it is known in Lango and Acholi sub-regions, awa-du among the Madi ...

The video also highlights Jergens skin care's support of the Global Shea Alliance, which seeks to empower more than 16 million women who collect shea nuts and make shea butter across Africa.

Across the African savanna belt from Senegal to Ethiopia, threats to shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa) — the source of shea butter — have become a regional environmental concern. At the local ...

The way it works is that shea nuts fall from trees when they're ripe. Booth says women pick them up from the ground, boil them, and set them to dry in the sun for one to three days.

Shea nuts are obtained from the shea tree that is indigenous to many parts of Africa. The shea nut is the seed of the fruit of the shea tree.

Analysis - Shea trees are grown widely in semi-arid parts of Africa for their fruit and seeds. From Senegal in the west to Uganda in the east, they are found in agro-forestry systems called ...

Anthropologists have pushed back the history of harvesting shea trees in West Africa by more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Oil from the trees' nuts is used for cooking by ...