Dobera roxburghii, Planch. Sudan: pulp of the fruit (drupe) of this tree is eaten. The seeds are also eaten, after debittering by boiling four times with continuous changes of water. They are then sun- dried and ground into flour used for making porridge; Kisra (a flat bread); and a perforated [pan ?] cake [Gorasa ?]. Sorghum or millet flour can be added, if available, to improve the taste of the flour. The whole seeds are also cooked and eaten with oil and salt. Chemical composition (undebittered): Protein (crude) = 19.0% (dry). Oil = 0.5% (dry). Ash = 6.4% (dry). Fibre (crude) = 2.6% (dry). Carbohydrate (soluble): starch = 55.7%(dry); (sugars): sucrose = 5.1% (dry). D-glucose = 3.0% (dry). D- fructose = 00.4% (dry). Amino acid (g [16g N ]-1): Aspartic acid = 9.2g. Threonine = 2.7g. Serine = 2.9g. Glutamic acid = 10.1g. Proline = 4.9g. Glycine = 3.6g. Alanine = 4.2g. Cysteine = 1.5g (performic acid oxidation). Methionine = 2.2g. (performic acid oxidation). Isoleucine = 3.2g. Leucine = 6.0g. Tyrosine = 2.8g. Phenylalanine = 4.1g. Histidine = 1.3g. Lysine = 3.4g. Arginine = 5.4g. Sulphur = 0.98% (dry). Potassium = 0.18% (dry). Magnesium = 0.47%(dry). Calcium = 0.53% (dry). Na = 0.02% (dry). K = 1.28% (dry). Zinc = 33mg/kg-1 (dry). Iron = 382mg/kg-1 (dry). Manganese = 334mg/kg-1 (dry). Coppper = 2mg/kg-1 (dry). (For values of debittered seeds, see Abdelmuti). Vernacular name: Maikah. Ref. ABDELMUTI; SALIH, NOUR & HARPER.
Salvadora oleoides, Decne. India (Rajasthan, Jaislamer district): sweet fruits dried and eaten. Believed to produce tingling, and small ulcers in mouth, when eaten fresh and one at a time. Therefore, they are eaten in handfuls; (Rajasthan, western ): ripe fruit eaten raw. Soil type favored by tree: one report indicates arid, slightly saline soil; a second, medium to heavy saline soils of alluvial plains. Vernacular name - Rajasthan (western), Jaisalmer (tree): Jal, Mithajal ; (fruit): Pillu. English: Grape of the Desert. Ref. BHANDARI; SAXENA; SHANKARNARAYAN & SAXENA.
Salvadora persica, L. India (Rajasthan, western): ripe fruit eaten raw. Soil type favored by tree: medium to heavy saline soils of alluvial plains. Vernacular name - Rajasthan (western), Jaisalmer (tree): Jal, Khara Jal ; (fruit): Pillu, Grape of the Desert. Ref. BHANDARI; SAXENA; SHANKARNARAYAN & SAXENA.