Hello Victoria
I agree with Cathy and others, the fruit looks definitely like a carambola/star fruit/starfruit (Averrhoa carambola L.). See for example Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carambola).
It is a very common (imported) fruit on the market in Europe and USA. It is imported all year round and popular in fruit salads, etc.
Therefore, you will find the nutrition composition in many food composition tables, e.g. the USDA SR 26 (http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2252).
You will find quite a few scientific papers on carambola and its nutrient composition, also freely available on the internet.
One of the older papers is
Wills, Lim and Greenfield:
Composition of Australian foods. 31. Tropical and sub-tropical fruit
FOOD TECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA, VOL. 38(3), MARCH 1986
For a more comprehensive list of online food composition information on the web, you may want to consult the LanguaL links page (http://langual.org/langual_food_composition.asp) or the FAO/INFOODS table/database directory (http://www.fao.org/infoods/infoods/tables-and-databases/en/).
I have the feeling, though, that many food composition databases may have copied the USDA or Australian data.
The other fruit you mention, African Star Apple (Chrysophyllum africanum A. DC.), is quite different.
See for example PROTA (http://database.prota.org/PROTAhtml/Chrysophyllum%20africanum_En.htm).
Good luck with your work.
All the best,
Anders
Anders Møller
Danish Food Informatics
Borgediget 12
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Subject: IDENTIFICATION OF FRUIT SAMPLE
Dear Ruth
please can you help me to identify the real name of the fruit attached to this mail. Its an underutilized fruit in Nigeria and a friend through which I got the sample claimed it is highly nutritious and that it is called Africa Star Apple but I found out that the name is used for Cherry known as agbalumo in Nigeria.
Also, I have taken a sample of the fruit to botany department in my institution but they seem not to know the fruit. Infact I can only get the fruit sample just from a source because its not common. I intend analysing the fruit to determine the nutrients composition.
Please kindly help with any useful information.
Thanks
Victoria O Ojo
Phd student
Department of Human Nutrition
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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