“…Worldwide, commercial vegetable oil production has been from conventional crops such as soybean, sunflower, rapeseed, coconut, palm nut and shea butter (Sagi et al, 2013;Rosillo-Calle et al, 2009). The need to investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of new, unconventional sources of vegetable oils is necessary to evaluate their suitability as raw materials for food and industrial applications (Noumi et al, 2011;Pengou et al, 2013). In West Africa (Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana), indigenous forest plants *Corresponding author.…”