{"id":2928,"date":"2022-01-03T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/01\/03\/from-fruit-waste-to-gourmet-grub\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:27:23","slug":"from-fruit-waste-to-gourmet-grub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/01\/03\/from-fruit-waste-to-gourmet-grub\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fruit Waste to Gourmet Grub"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meals Sustainability<\/span>\t\t\t<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 23 2021 (IPS) <\/span>– When Bonolo Monthe\u2019s neighbours discarded bucketsful of fallen ripe morula fruit from their yard, she noticed meals and fortune going to waste. <\/span><\/p>\n Monthe took a tasty curiosity within the fruit of the morula (Sclerocarya birrea<\/em>), a hardy indigenous tree that grows naturally throughout Africa. The morula fruit is wealthy in nutritional vitamins and vitamins, with eight occasions the vitamin C of oranges.<\/p>\n Monthe \u2013 a serial entrepreneur and agro processor \u2013 has turned the morula waste fruit into award-winning, low to zero-sugar preserves and jams via Maungo Craft<\/a>, a social enterprise co-founded by Monthe and Olayemi Aganga in 2017. As well as, the corporate makes marmalades and sugar-free onion and baobab chutney.<\/p>\n Maungo Craft helps get rid of meals waste whereas offering delectable meals and creating jobs within the agriculture worth chain.<\/p>\n \u201cWe noticed a fantastic alternative and determined to make preserves with the morula fruit that sometimes goes unused in Botswana,\u201d Monthe, the Managing Director of Maungo Craft, tells IPS.<\/p>\n \u201cToo many individuals noticed morula as a nuisance. We noticed a chance to return collectively and have some enjoyable cooking jam,\u201d mentioned Monthe explaining that they noticed a chance to make slightly cash on the native farmer\u2019s market within the capital metropolis, Gaborone.<\/p>\n \u201cWe realized on our journey that on the subject of creating beauty morula oil, beauty processors undergo 300 tonnes of morula fruit pulp to get to 12 tonnes of morula beauty oil. We thought to ourselves, what occurs to all of that fruit,\u201d Monthe recollects.<\/p>\n