Feueltgaldah  Christian Bopoundza, David  Mampouya, Eliane  Thérèse Biassala, Anicet  Frédéric Binaki, Celestine  Ngounga Kiminou, Bob  Wilfrid Loumouamou, Thomas  Silou, 
    Morphological and Physicochemical Characterization of Safous from Brazzaville,
    Research Journal of Applied Sciences,
    Volume 15,Issue 10,
    2020,
    Pages 296-304,
    ISSN 1815-932x,
    rjasci.2020.296.304,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2020.296.304)
    Abstract: The aim of this work is to enhance the safou
tree “orchard” of Brazzaville by carrying out the
morphological and physicochemical characterization of
the fruits collected from 50 trees in the 5 districts, at the
rate of 10 trees per district. The characterization of the
fruits made it possible to identify the types of size, class
and category of safous the most found and the most
cultivated in this large orchard. This study showed us that
the Safous of Brazzaville form a very homogeneous group
of fruits and resemble those already found in the
literature. Descriptive studies on morphology indicate that
it is the fruit with the sphericity index (width/length) of
around 0.5 that is most commonly found in the
sub-region. The safous of Brazzaville are similar to each
other and, ultimately, resemble the type of safous the most
sold in the sub-region. The oil extracted from the pulp has
the following major fatty acid profiles: C16: 0 C18: 1
C18: 2 C18: 0 C18: 3 followed by C16: 0 C18: 2 C18: 1
C18: 0 C18: 3 with average palmitic acid contents <50%.
Oleic and linoleic acids have almost similar contents with
values, respectively equal to 26.8 (&plusmn;5.4) and
21.5(&plusmn;4.3)%.
    Keywords: Dacryodes edulis;fatty acid composition;morphological characteristics;safou;classification