Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) Pulp Juice Production and Quality Evaluation via Proximate and Mineral Composition Analyses

Shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa) are common in African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Sudan, and others. When fully ripe, the tree's green fruit turns yellow. The tree is well-known valued for its versatility. Its entire composition useful food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic industries. Among applications production of butter from nuts, while rest left to rot or discarded. This study focuses on using other parts create a new product, reduce waste, expand value chain. Three formulations juice were created. evaluated nutritional, physicochemical, mineral compositions. nutritional revealed high moisture content that ranged 84.39 93.01%, carbohydrate caloric values, ranging 5.84 8.96% 33.51 67.31%, respectively. It also had concentration vitamin C (16.45 - 38.99 percent). was observed increase pulp percentage increased. Magnesium be higher sample (36.71±0.24) A recorded lower magnesium (18.04±0.06). Calcium found present concentrations (30.07 50.64 %). juice's potassium 58.6 50.54% 24.6 60.16% A. physicochemical analysis close range p H values (5.37 6.06 %) between samples control, making less susceptible spoilage. Overall, results presented high-quality could compete favorably market with juices.