African Mango- How Is It Different?

African Mango, or Irvingia Gabonensis, is not the same fruit as the common mango, or Mangifera Indica. For a start, one originated in India, hence the name ‘Indica’, and the other in West Africa, indicated by the ‘Gabon’ (a West African country) in Gabonensis. The only thing, apart from the word mango that they have in common is they are both drupes. Drupes are a kind of fruit that has a fleshy outer part covering a stone or seed. Apricots, peaches, mangos and mangosteens are drupes, but none of these are the same item as African Mango and they don’t have the same weight loss benefits, either.

African Mango Has Many Uses

This fruit has many applications, not just for weight loss. In West Africa it is used for weight gain. The nuts, or seed are crushed and made into ogbono soup where they act as  a thickening agent. The pressed nuts produce a vegetable oil and when ground into a paste are used to make ‘dika bread’ and Gabon chocolate, both high nutrient value foodstuffs. It seems incongruent then that such a product is touted as being beneficial to weight loss and the breakdown of fatty deposits. It is believed it is the effect the product has on the metabolism that is the secret. It encourages the metabolism to kick into hyper drive and use up the energy offered by other foods in the diet, rather than store them as fats.

African Mango Extract

The ingredients we need to gain weight loss benefits from African Mangoes are extracted from the fruit and presented in the form of a pill, or capsule. This capsule contains other substances used to construct the capsule but these are benign and neither help nor harm the body in any quantifiable way. Because the product can be extremely nutritious and thus weight gaining, it is imperative clients purchase quality African Mango extract from a reliable manufacturer.