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shea butter

off-white or ivory-colored fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree
Class type of: vegetable fat Q495857

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
Ebo
Subclass of
vegetable fat[3]
Part of
Brazilian cuisine[4]
Made from material
sheanut[2]
Natural product of taxon
Butyrospermum parkii, Vitellaria paradoxa[5][6]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wiki Loves Cultura Popular Brasil - Culinária[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Moo Yaa en shea butter en Moo-yaa ar زبدة الشيا ar بذرة شجرة أم القرن cs bambucké máslo da bassiasmør da sheasmør de Sheabutter el βούτυρο καριτέ es manteca de karité fa شی باتر fa کره شئا fi Karitevoi fi Sheavoi fr beurre de karite fr beurre de karité fr karité fr matière grasse de karité he חמאת שיאה
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Library of Congress authority ID
sh89001663
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Shea butter 1.jpg ↗
AGROVOC ID
c_37951
BNCF Thesaurus ID
797
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12286135t
CAS Registry Number
194043-92-0
CosIng number
84401
DSSTox substance ID
DTXSID10893021
Dewey Decimal Classification
665.3
DrugBank ID
DB14311
EC number
606-306-6
ECHA Substance Infocard ID
100.120.955
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Freebase ID
/m/04vp3y
Lex ID
sheasmør
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780772644
NALT ID
58579
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541888105171
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/shea-butter, veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/shea-butter
UNII
K49155WL9Y
Wellcome Collection concept ID
h49rmntr
Yale LUX ID
concept/17a318c4-5a7a-4713-8a2e-34a2bcb80335

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🔗 Connections
← Made from material 2
M&M's, Bobo Dioulasso Grand Mosque
Natural product of taxon 1
Vitellaria paradoxa
Part of 1
Brazilian cuisine
Subclass of 1
vegetable fat
← This taxon is source of 1
Vitellaria paradoxa
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Summary

shea butter is an Ebo[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Part of → Brazilian cuisine
    Instance of → Ebo
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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