A detailed description of the plant was proposed around 1750 by Michel Adanson, a French botanist who spent several years in Senegal, and took samples to Paris. Adansonia digitata is the scientific name proposed by Carl Von LINNE and Bernard de Jussieu. It is a secular tree belonging to the Bombacaceae family, imposing by its size, it is the most massive of all known woody species, unlike other species of the genus Adansonia endemic to Madagascar or Australia (Adansonia grandidieri Baill., Adansonia madagascarensis Baill, Adansonia suarezensis H. Perrier and Adansonia Baill, etc.). It is mainly present in the sub-humid and semi.
This study was conducted to recognize the physical and chemical properties of baobab seeds crude oil and its use in food frying process. The seeds were milled for proximate analysis: oil content, protein content, moisture content, total ash, crude fiber, and carbohydrate, then the results were recorded 27.5%, 14.0%, 5.7%, 3.4%, 15.0%, 34.4% respectively. The oil was extracted by mechanical pressing, then the physical properties density, viscosity, refractive index, and moisture content were tested, the results were recorded 0.9139, 22.6 cp, 1.4690, 0.1% respectively. Also the chemical properties peroxide value, free fatty acids, saponification value, and iodine value, were determined, the results were recorded 9.0 meqo2/kg, 1.8%, 240.4, 54.0 respectively.