babassu

The first SAF flight ran between London and Amsterdam in 2008 using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts.

Subsidies for products that come from the forest would help, too; for example, making traditional oil from babassu palm more competitive with soy oil from Brazil’s vast plantations.

Key ingredients include frankincense, sage and babassu oil.

N. gardneri mushrooms growing on the base of a young babassu palm in northeastern Brazil.

He said a low point came during the survival phase when some soldiers staved off hunger by eating the larvae found on the babassu coconut tree.