Doum Palm Fruit

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Hyphaene thebaica, with common names doum palm fruit and gingerbread fruit, is a type of palm fruit with edible oval. Doum fruit has a high-quality protein varied between 2.86 and 5.01%, high proportion of lysine and cysteine of crude protein varied between 4.09–4.16% and 0.2–1.62%, respectively, the limited amino acid threonine, crude fat varied between 1.2 and 8.4%, crude fiber varied between 52.26 and 66.5%, the most important carbohydrates component was mannose varied between 13 and 75.9%, also the presence of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron sodium and negligible amount of nickel, cobalt and molybdenum. Phytochemical compounds of doum fruit such as tannins, saponin, steroids, glycosides, flavonoid, terpenes and terpinoids were found at low and moderate concentrations. The water extract of doum fruits can reduce hyperlipidemia in nephrotic syndrome and leads to decrease the risk of glomerulosclerosis and atherosclerosis and consequently the natural, safe and nontoxic H. thebaica fruit could be of great merit for use as hypolipidemic drugs.