Which one is african star apple , you Africans should be courageous enough to name things.

E.g somebody saying bean cake....are u mad? What is bean cake, call it the original name, Akara....nonsense

The study design is very poor, with no mention of the statistical methods which they have used to come to such conclusions.The claimed research findings may just be simply an accurate measures of the prevailing bias. Period

sinkhole:
the equipments used in that research include petri dish, and one old microscope like that.
Methodology: the rat semen was collected in a petri dish and microscope used to count the number of spermatozoa present;
The back of the agbalumo tree was soaked in alcohol;
After about two days, the alcohol extract was introduced, two drops, into the petri dish with specimen;
After about one hour, the spermatozoa were counted again;
The number of spermatozoa was found to have decreased.
Conclusion: Agbalumo causes infertility

doctokwus:
Read the research extracts and soon as I saw all were conducted by scientists in Nigerian higher inatitutions,I started having doubts.
First,in their more or less hurried research,there was even one study group that found spermatogenesis was even increased.
Meanwhile,no human study has even been done,just a study on rats,by Nigerian scientists using the science equipment they use here.
When a proper research is done using up to date scientific tools and methods,then any research finding on agbalumo can be discussed.

Can you keep your mouth quiet and stop giving opinion on what's not your area of expertise. It is standard practice in research to use mouse for experimental studies by medical and pharmaceutical industry. It's usually the first step before human or apes based experiments. And not all research studies can be done with human as test subject. For this kind of studies, the use apes (chimpanzees, gorilla, etc). Or can you submit yourself for research that administer samples that could cause infertility.

And this study says it's the root extract that can cause infertility, not the fruit many people eat.

Sorry the white man has helped you loose confidence in people of your kind. And how can you have confidence in yourself or how will others trust the work of your own hands?

This research did not use the fruit Agbalumo but it used the bark of the root of the plant. You should only be worried if you use the root. Until another find the same result with the fruit.

It's written clearly in the post. Why can't you all see that.

This fruit is not called star apple....it is African cherry

doctokwus:
Read the research extracts and soon as I saw all were conducted by scientists in Nigerian higher inatitutions,I started having doubts.
First,in their more or less hurried research,there was even one study group that found spermatogenesis was even increased.
Meanwhile,no human study has even been done,just a study on rats,by Nigerian scientists using the science equipment they use here.
When a proper research is done using up to date scientific tools and methods,then any research finding on agbalumo can be discussed.

it's obvious you've lost hope in our dear nation Nigeria, do u think no good thing can come out of Nigeria?. Me I no kuku like udara;

doctokwus:
Read the research extracts and soon as I saw all were conducted by scientists in Nigerian higher inatitutions,I started having doubts.
First,in their more or less hurried research,there was even one study group that found spermatogenesis was even increased.
Meanwhile,no human study has even been done,just a study on rats,by Nigerian scientists using the science equipment they use here.
When a proper research is done using up to date scientific tools and methods,then any research finding on agbalumo can be discussed.

Without looking far, agbalumo has been eating by our elders for decades if not centuries and they never had or tied it to any such ridiculous assertions. So how do a bunch of in experienced scientists with no profound research work to their name get such ridiculous claims from? Seems they have no better things to do.

doctokwus:
Read the research extracts and soon as I saw all were conducted by scientists in Nigerian higher inatitutions,I started having doubts.
First,in their more or less hurried research,there was even one study group that found spermatogenesis was even increased.
Meanwhile,no human study has even been done,just a study on rats,by Nigerian scientists using the science equipment they use here.
When a proper research is done using up to date scientific tools and methods,then any research finding on agbalumo can be discussed.

Meanwhile, do note too that such experiments aren't carried out on humans. Animals are usually used and the outcome bus expected to he same on humans.

We call it Udara in our language.
I didn't even use to like it

Benjaniblinks:
Thanks op I was confusing this for Apricot.
At least I know its name now.

Apricot should be pear I guess, at least that's the French name for pear so...

FrLukas:


Use your head bro.

You are typing with technology conceived by the whites.

Virtually all the aspects of your life is guided by the practice gotten from the Western countries.

You are addressing me in English. Is English your mother tongue?

When you fall sick you rush to the hospital to take treatments that have seen the light of day due to researches conducted by these same white people.

Your wife wants to give birth, you rush her to the hospital into the hands of western trained nurses and doctors, not to a herbalist in your village. Please spare me the crap.

What has scientific research got to do with your culture?

What has the discovered results on the potential harmful substance in the fruit got to do with your traditional clothes, language and other native foods you eat?

Aren't there other potentially harmful fruits in existence in the western countries?

I don't know the point you're trying to make here.

That you want to preserve your culture shouldn't make you plant your head in the sand like an ostrich.

You love your culture so much, then start by ditching English language cos I know it isn't part of your culture.

Your only emphasising on speaking English. Speaking English language is just means of effective communication. My salient point is that you reason before swallowing anything from a stranger. "He whom listen, controls your life"

doctokwus:
Read the research extracts and soon as I saw all were conducted by scientists in Nigerian higher inatitutions,I started having doubts.
First,in their more or less hurried research,there was even one study group that found spermatogenesis was even increased.
Meanwhile,no human study has even been done,just a study on rats,by Nigerian scientists using the science equipment they use here.
When a proper research is done using up to date scientific tools and methods,then any research finding on agbalumo can be discussed.

thank you for the summary

victorazyvictor:


Your only emphasising on speaking English. Speaking English language is just means of effective communication. My salient point is that you reason before swallowing anything from a stranger. "He whom listen, controls your life"

Go back to the post you quoted and read it very very slowly. Take about 24 hrs to mediate on it and digest it properly, then come back to respond.

Thank you.

It's white star apple.

Benjaniblinks:
Thanks op I was confusing this for Apricot.
At least I know its name now.

Our forefathers who are this fruit were very fertile to the extent of marrying more than two wives. I think there is need for extensive investigation for this study

FrLukas:


Go back to the post you quoted and read it very very slowly. Take about 24 hrs to mediate on it and digest it properly, then come back to respond.

Thank you.

You have no point bro!

The discussion is beyond your comprehension.

Thank you bro!

Hmmmmn

Manolo213:
This fruit is not called star apple....it is African cherry

African Star apple dude. Cherry is incorrectly used.

Really

Which kind wahala be this again

sundayoluwatimi:



Meanwhile, do note too that such experiments aren't carried out on humans. Animals are usually used and the outcome bus expected to he same on humans.

Nonsense.
Even drugs are tested on humans before being approved for registration.Its called human trial.
The way this kind of study is carried out in normal climes is that there is a case control after the rat study.
Humans are divided into 2 groups,those u give your test material to(in this case the agbalumo bark or extract) and another group u don't give.Both are followed for some years,ensuring they follow almost similar food and environmental conditions.
After that you now run your test again or you run it yearly for some years.Only then do u come up with a result and theory that other scientists then also carry out to confirm it before it's stated and approved as a scientific fact.
Here no human trial has been done and don't be surprised this rat study was done over just 2months.
They should go with their research because evidence based reports has shown no decrease in fertility.
If proper research is done,don't be surprised to even find agbalumo enhances fertility.
How did the world come to accept that eating of yam boosts multiple birth, particularly twins in Nigeria couples?
They followed Yoruba couples for some years and found that those that eat a lot of yam had increased incidents of conceiving twins compared to others,other conditions in same environment being almost same.
It was then narrowed down to the difference in yam intake.
That's a proper research done over some years,not this bull crap.

EddyNumerouno:
Lol

No faith in anything Nigerian...sorry is your case

The research was done using the root bark, I don’t know anyone who eats the root bark. So we can fire the go be that

the OP is at fault here with his misleading thread title

EddyNumerouno:
Lol

No faith in anything Nigerian...sorry is your case

The research was done using the root bark, I don’t know anyone who eats the root bark. So we can fire the go be that

the OP is at fault here with his misleading thread title.

excomarow:
Women are found of eating it more than men....
What will happen to them

their bumbum will grow to twice its size. and everytime u like her kpekus it'll feel like u're licking agbalumo

bluefilm:
These fools don come again o!

Now, they want to criminalize and demonize our udara for us.

E no go work for dem at all, aswear.

the OP is at fault here. that's how another fellow sometime last year made a silly "research" post on 'the dangers of eating beans and plantain'.
we just laughed at him.


ask them the source of their research and they can't quote a valid one.

WetSmoke:
Men no de too eat am sef.

My brother can eat 1k worth of it at a go. He has three kids...

crackhouse:
Their research was a waste of money. Nigeria scientists?

Infact scam. Watch out, they want to introduce and market a fruit from their obsolete laboratories.

DEHVEHLOP:
They consume a lot of it in the land of the rising crimes.









Maybe that is the reason they remained 5% since independence

you're very disgusting

I sometimes eat it, unfortunately it's the sour ones I mostly come across.

No matter what your research says.

I will consume my Agbalumo & Udala fruit till eternity!!!

I'll trust that study if it was done at Covenant University. All other Universities have no reasonable ranking , credibility, veracity/integrity of research findings.

Meanwhile, this fruit na women fruit na