Pentadiplandra brazzeana

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Oubli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Brassicales
Family: Capparaceae
Genus: Pentadiplandra
Species: P. brazzeana
Binomial name
Pentadiplandra brazzeana
Baill.

The Pentadiplandra brazzeana Baill. (or Oubli) plant was rediscovered in 1985 by Marcel and Anette Hladik, both working at the Paris National Nature Museum, who were studying the eating habits of apes in Gabon.[1]
They published their findings in science magazines, which started global interest in research on the sweet secret of Pentadiplandra brazzeana berry fruit. The plant grows in Gabon, Congo, Nigeria and Cameroon.[2]

Two highly sweet-tasting proteins were discovered from the fruit, pentadin (in 1989)[3] and brazzein (in 1994).[4]

[edit] Traditional use

The plant grows in Gabon and Cameroon, where the fruit has been consumed by the apes and the natives for a long time. The berries of the plant were incredibly sweet African locals call them "Oubli" (French for "forgot") in there vernacular language because their taste helps nursing infants forget their mother's milk [1] as once they eat it they forget to come back to the village to see their mother.[5]

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