The palm fruit is a sessile drupe, one-seeded fruit enclosed in a fleshy pulp of variable shape of about 20–50 mm long. The fruit has a kernel consisting of an irregularly shaped mass of white soluble proteins or albumen enclosing a cylindrical embryo, an endocarp or shell, a mesocarp or fleshy part (pulp) with cells filled of oil (in which individual bodies are clubbed together) and a coloured exocarp or outer skin (Tropical Agriculturalist, 1998; Rajanaidu, 1994).