Talk:Shea butter

message: the section that describes the difference between "Certified Organic Unrefined and the Refined Version" of shea butter almost sounds like an ad, and sure enough- it's only reference is purelyshea.com, a site that sells "Certified Organic Unrefined" Shea butter. Obviously this one single source is not too viable. If it's not cleaned up soon, should I just go ahead and delete it? --Corgana 11:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Biased info in "Types" section

message: Scarcity? My understanding is that shea nut trees are very common and numerous and high-yielding throughout West Africa. Any citations for the scarcity claim?
:[ Copied this particular item to Talk:Butyrospermum parkii --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Supply and "Healing Properties"

message: Why does karite redirect here?
:Apparently the French name (also used in English) of the shea tree and/or the shea butter is karité.  Not sure which of the two articles the redirect shoudl point to.  It could be redirected to Shea (a disamb page) but it applies to only two of the many senses listed there. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:33, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect?

message: A lot of the content on this page looks a lot like the content on 
http://www.naturessheabutter.com/category_s/148.htm#SheaButter101 (which is linked to from this page.) Who copied whom -- and is this OK?? FlyByPC (talk) 15:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism?

message: I removed the statement, However, studies have shown it to reduce the effects of UV damage on the skin because it doesn't seem to be supported by the reference given ().  The reference only refers to a study done on caffeic acid, and does not claim to apply to shea butter.  Deli nk (talk) 14:19, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misused reference? 

message: The line
"Shea butter is mainly used as an ingredient in chocolate."
doesn't seem to be supported by the cited source, which briefly references shea butter's possible past use by the chocolate industry without stating the above.
A quick search didn't yield any confirmation or alternate source; if nobody chimes in I'll go ahead and remove the sentence in a week or so.
Best wishes,
Abidagus (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's what I have: "Refined shea butter ... stearin fraction ... is a valuable cocoa butter substitute. The export quantities (from Nigeria, Dahomey, Upper Volta) amount to ca. 50 000 t/a." ref: .  --Smokefoot (talk) 22:56, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mainly used in chocolate?  Citation doesn't seem to support 

message: Substituted at 05:55, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Nowhere is there a description of the mechanics of extracting the oil from the seed, though (except that under "Classification" there is mention of water extraction for Grade A material). The link to "testa" is worse than useless, pointing at a generic description of Roman brick construction (opus latericium). The "See Also" link to the page on "Shea nut and butter production in Burkina Faso" points to something about as low-quality as the present article and contains nothing about production methods.
There is no meaningful description of the plant or its fruit, though you get some of that from the link to the page about the tree itself. I think snagging a paragraph from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellari about the fruit, and maybe include a "main article" link to the "Distribution and Habitat" section there to the "History" section here. Wscholine (talk) 15:47, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are strange lacunae in this article 

message: Hi all. In regard to N’Ko text featured on the article, diacritic usage appears to be erroneous: it does not align with what I see... on one particular N’Ko-related GitHub webpage:
  https://r12a.github.io/scripts/nkoo/nqo.html
One section of that webpage states:
  N’Ko has 7 vowel letters.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.196.178.201 (talk) 11:58, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect N’Ko text in the article?

message: The redirect Shea butter revision 2009 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Regards, SONIC678 04:46, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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