Wild Fruit Juice · Sine-Saloum Forest
Ditakh
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Ditakh is a legume: the green, fibrous pulp wraps around a single hard seed inside a round fruit on a tree from the pea family.
The green pulp of the ditakh fruit, gathered wild from Detarium senegalense trees on the Sine-Saloum islands, is mashed and strained into a sharp, faintly sour juice, usually sweetened. Vendors sell it chilled from coolers alongside bissap and bouye.
Why it's made this way: The ditakh tree grows wild specifically along the forested islands of the Sine-Saloum delta and in Casamance, making the juice a genuinely regional specialty rather than a nationwide staple.
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