The fibrous tissue surrounding the seeds can be eaten raw, roasted or cooked at full maturity. It’s said it tastes like coconut. The Bengals, for example, produce a palm fruit pudding (Taler Kheer) or palm fruit pakora (Taler Bora) from the fruit pulp. For this, the yellow, fibrous pulp is rubbed by a grater, so that the sweet, mushy flesh can be separated from the fibers and further processed.
The whitish endosperm of the still immature seeds resembles the jelly-like tissue from the interior of young coconuts, or – purely optically – a peeled, seedless lychee (see also B. flabellifer). More or less roughly freed from the woody endocarp, the seeds are often offered in large baskets on markets. The endosperm can be eaten raw or roasted.

• Edible Fruits Seeds
• Also edible Sap of (male) Inflorescence Shoots
• Culinary Group Nuts Tropical fruits
• Taste sweet
• Trivial Names Äthiopische Palmyrapalme, African fan palm, African palmyra palm, Deleb palm, Ron palm, Toddy palm, Black rhun palm, Ronier palm
• Size 15 cm
• Taxonomy Arecaceae Borassus aethiopium
• Origin Guinea, Congo Basin (Map)
• Fundort Jardin Botanique de Kinshasa (KINSH) 2016
• Type of fruit Stone fruit