The mama-cadela is part of a range of little-known native fruits of Brazilian biodiversity. Typical of the Cerrado, yellow to orange in color, it is small and has a sweet, fibrous pulp, characteristics that led it to receive the nickname “Cerrado gum”. Despite its curious name, what caught the attention of nutritionist and professor of the Nutrition course at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Grazieli Pascoal, was the lack of informati…
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The mama-cadela is part of a range of little-known native fruits of Brazilian biodiversity. Typical of the Cerrado, yellow to orange in color, it is small and has a sweet, fibrous pulp, characteristics that led it to receive the nickname “Cerrado gum”. Despite its curious name, what caught the attention of nutritionist and professor of the Nutrition course at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Grazieli Pascoal, was the lack of informati…