Senegal Saba

Description: English: An easy, in-season, after-school fruit snack for a young, eleven-year-old student walking home in Senegal. A small-sized fruit 'madd' (or mad, spellings vary) with a bit of sugar plus salt added to offset the tartness. Date: 20 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree with the interior fruit pulp shown in two halves extracted from the thick skin of the fruit. One half intact, the other half separated to show the many sections that each contain one seed. The skin of the fruit is thick and quite flexible, about.8 cm thick, with a bit of stickiness where cut. For scale: the fruit shown, somewhat average in size, was 9.5 cm in diameter, height about 10 cm. Very, very tart fruit, usually boiled first without extracting the seeds, with added sugar before eating. Called 'madd' in Senegal (also spelled as 'mad' - names vary between languages). This one fruit contained 35 sections for a total of 35 seeds (approx 2 cm each in size). Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree cut open to show the ripe interior fruit pulp as it is before removal. The skin of the fruit is thick and quite flexible,about.8 cm thick, with a bit of stickiness where cut. For scale: the fruit shown, somewhat average in size, was 9.5 cm in diameter, height about 10 cm. The yellow edible fruit pulp is formed into sections which are easily pulled apart from each other. One section contains one seed (not shown here, about 2 cm in length). Very tart, usually boiled without extracting the seeds, with sugar for consumption, seeds discarded during eating. Called 'madd' in Senegal ('mad' - spellings vary and names vary between languages). This one fruit had 35 fruit pulp sections, representing 35 seeds in total (seeds not shown). Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: Madd, seasonal fruit of the Saba senegalensis tree. Cooked, very tart and flavorful. Very popular in the southern Senegal forest region. The seeds are removed from the fruit and boiled until the pulp covering the seed is soft, with sugar added to taste. Street vendors in Dakar sell in plastic cups with spoons. The large, hard seed pits (shown on the saucer) remain and are discarded during eating. Scale, shown with teaspoon. : This is an image of food from Senegal. Date: 17 November 2014. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: Detail of the edible ripe yellow pulp sections containing one seed in each section as compared to the pale whitish extracted seeds. Shown compared to a fifty CFA franc coin with a 2 cm diameter. Measured seed length commonly 2 cm (1.5 - 2 cm) ; measured longest side of the pulp section approximately 3 cm long. Very tart fruit pulp, not usually eaten raw, but typically boiled first with added sugar, called 'madd' in Senegal. (Sometimes spelled as 'mad.' Names vary between languages across the Saba senegalensis indigenous zone.) Seeds are not eaten, rather, discarded. Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: Ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree, as sold in the market (called madd, also spelled mad ) the yellowish skins are ripe, the green-skinned fruit is unripe. Tough-skinned, the ripe fruit is cut open to remove the sections of yellow, edible fruit pulp that covers smooth, white seeds. Very tart fruit pulp, usually boiled with added sugar before eating. Scale shown in cm. Date: 29 April 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree with the interior yellow fruit pulp removed in its entirety, then pulled apart in its two halves showing its center and the multiple sections before pulling them apart. The skin of the fruit is thick and quite flexible,about.8 cm thick, with a bit of oozing and stickiness where cut. For scale: the fruit shown, somewhat average in size, was 9.5 cm in diameter, height about 10 cm. The sections contain one seed per section. A very, very tart fruit pulp, usually boiled first without extracting the seeds, with added sugar before eating, the seeds are not eaten. Called 'madd' in Senegal (also spelled as 'mad' - names vary between languages). This fruit shown had 35 fruit pulp sections, one seed per fruit pulp section for 35 seeds in total. The hard, whitish seeds (not shown here) average about 2 cm in length. Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: One ripe fruit from the Saba senegalensis tree with the interior fruit pulp removed in its entirety. The skin of the fruit is thick and quite flexible,about.8 cm thick, with a bit of stickiness where cut. For scale: the fruit shown, somewhat average in size, was 9.5 cm in diameter, height about 10 cm. This fruit pulp easily pulls apart in discrete sections that contain one seed per section. Very, very tart fruit pulp, usually boiled first without extracting the seeds, with added sugar before eating. Called 'madd' in Senegal (also spelled as 'mad' - names vary between languages). Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: fruit of Saba senegalensis, SW Burkina Faso. Date: 2006. Source: Own work. Author: Marco Schmidt [1]. Permission (Reusing this file): cc-by-sa-2.5.

Description: English: A typical example of a ripe fruit as sold in the market from the Saba senegalensis tree, cut open to show the segmented forms of the edible, ripe, yellow fruit pulp surrounding the seed, this fruit also known as 'madd' in Senegal (sometimes spelled as 'mad' ); also showing the pale whitish smooth seeds when separated from the yellow, somewhat stringy fresh pulp. Very tart fruit pulp, usually boiled with added sugar before eating. Scale shown in cm. Date: 29 April 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.

Description: English: Ripe fruit of the tree Saba senegalensis, showing as sold in the markets in season (April) with an opened ripe fruit to display the ripe yellow fruit pulp, loosened to show the distinctive sections of the fruit pulp. One section contains one seed. The opened fruit shown, an average size (about 9.5 cm in diameter, 10.5 height), had 35 sections, for 35 seeds (about 2cm in length). A very tart fruit pulp, typically boiled without extracting the seeds, with sugar before eating, seeds discarded. Called 'madd' in Senegal (sometimes spelled 'mad' and names vary between languages). A somewhat tough, yet flexible skin, about.8 cm in thickness. The green-skinned fruit is not ripe, the yellow-skinned indicates ripe. Date: 1 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: T.K. Naliaka.