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Nutritional properties of “Bush Meals” - Pelagia Research Library

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Djoulde Daman Roger et al Adv. Appl. Sci. Res., 2012, 3(3):1482-1493<br />

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Local food<br />

Name/dishes<br />

Arrowroot<br />

Tac’haa/<br />

Arrowroot<br />

alcoholic drink<br />

Table 2: Foods list <strong>of</strong> tubers, roots and their products from North Cameroon’s biodiversity, their methods <strong>of</strong> preparation and proposed tag name<br />

Ingredients<br />

Tacca<br />

leontopetaloides<br />

Tacca<br />

leontopetaloides<br />

Methods <strong>of</strong> Preparation<br />

The fleshes <strong>of</strong> the tubers are grated in the interior asperities <strong>of</strong> a pottery made for this purpose and which expresses the juice. This juice is then<br />

filters and lets dry to recover starch wish is use for human consumption.<br />

The extracted juice is filters and let fermented for tree to fourth days.<br />

Proposed long food<br />

name<br />

Tacca, starch, raw,<br />

juice<br />

Tacca, fermented<br />

sour drink<br />

Tchuf /Chufa Cyperus rotondus The tuber <strong>of</strong> Cyperus rotondus are generally soaked in water then mixed with a sweet. They’re also used to make cakes for wedding.<br />

Cyperus, raw,<br />

sweetened<br />

zanina<br />

Amorphophallus<br />

aphyllus<br />

The tubers <strong>of</strong> Amorphophallus must be boiled for long time with sheets <strong>of</strong> Cissus adenocaudalis, and can be consumed after changing the<br />

cooking water at least three times<br />

Amorphophallus,<br />

boiled<br />

Stylochiton warneckii Stylochiton roots are peeled, washed and boiled for about 15 minutes then eaten hot. Stylochiton, boiled<br />

Jeda, Blume Anchomanes difformis<br />

These tubers are treated as that <strong>of</strong> Amorphophallus but are lengthily boiled with sheets <strong>of</strong> Hymenocardia acida in place <strong>of</strong> Cissus<br />

adenocaudalis, and the tubers can be consumed only after changed the water <strong>of</strong> cooking at least three times with these sheets<br />

jeda, boiled<br />

gabura (ma)<br />

Regarded as poison by Koma tribe, when it is collected, they sing by beseeching it not to bring death. In Muzey tribe, a special ceremony is<br />

Cochlospermum, raw<br />

applied for the cooking process: the whole tribe accompanies a very old woman a “cata man mana ki fatiya”, (woman whose word is finished)<br />

Cochlospermum,<br />

Cochlospermum and they make her unearth the first root. The villagers make in the same way, then prepares the tuber. The old woman will eats the first and<br />

boiled<br />

planchonii<br />

thus symbolically takes on her the yowna (the poison) <strong>of</strong> the root. Each morning during the hunger, some tubers are given to her to consume.<br />

Cochlospermum,<br />

At the end <strong>of</strong> the famine she is supposed to die. An old lady <strong>of</strong> the canton <strong>of</strong> Leo in North Cameroon had conformed to this ritual during the<br />

cooked, pounded<br />

1985 famine.<br />

Souchets, Tigernut,<br />

flatsedge<br />

Bulbes de<br />

nénuphars<br />

Cyperus esculentus,<br />

Cyperus rotondus<br />

Nymphaea sp<br />

The fleshes <strong>of</strong> the tubers are grated in the interior asperities <strong>of</strong> a pottery made for this purpose and which expresses the juice. This juice is then<br />

filters and lets dry to recover starch wish is use for human consumption.<br />

The fresh roots are washed then boiled for about 15 then rewashed and peeled before consumption<br />

Souchet, starch, raw<br />

Nymphea,<br />

boiled<br />

Table 3: Foods list <strong>of</strong> meats, poultry, fish, insects and their products from North Cameroon’s biodiversity, their methods <strong>of</strong> preparation and proposed tag name<br />

Local food Name/dishes Ingredients Methods <strong>of</strong> Preparation Proposed long food name<br />

Tcholli bee tchita/ sossor/ astrild bird<br />

Estrilda sp, Capscium frutescens,<br />

Mixed spices, salt<br />

Astrild, <strong>of</strong>fal, grill, spicy, hot<br />

Tcholli bee tchita/ sossor/ bengalis<br />

Udagenthuss bengalus, Capscium The birds feathers are removed, the bird is eviscerate, coat with spices mixture,<br />

frutescens, Mixed spices, salt<br />

salted and peppered, then skewered and grill on charcoal<br />

Bengalis, <strong>of</strong>fal, grill, spicy, hot<br />

Tcholli bee tchita/ sossor/ tisserands<br />

Ploceus sp, Capscium frutescens,<br />

Mixed spices, salt<br />

Tisserans, <strong>of</strong>fal, spices, grill, hot<br />

Varan de terre boucane<br />

Varanus exanthematicus<br />

Varanus, meat, <strong>of</strong>fal, salted, smoke<br />

A mixt part <strong>of</strong> the meat is salted and smoke<br />

le hérisson boucane Erinaceus albiventris Erinaceus, meat, <strong>of</strong>fal, salted, smoke<br />

Le Cephalophe,/Yellow-backed duiker/ Antilope Cephalophus sylvicultor, Arachis<br />

Antelope, smoked, cooked in<br />

Smoked antelope meat is cooked in groundnuts oil, salt and hot pepper<br />

fumée a l’huile arachide<br />

hypogaea, Capscium frutescens, salt<br />

groundnut oil, hot<br />

Antelope, smoked, cooked with<br />

Le Cephalophe,/Yellow-backed duiker/ Antilope Cephalophus sylvicultor, Solanum. Sp, Smoked antelope meat is cooked with pumpkin seed butter, salt, onion, and hot<br />

pumpkin seed, savory onion, salt,<br />

fumée au pistache / kora bia nê saka môo gala Capscium frutescens, Alium cepa, salt pepper.<br />

hot pepper<br />

Phacochère fume/ Wild pig<br />

Potamochoerus porcus, Capscium Smoked wild pig meat is boiled, then fry in maize oil. The boiled water is added wild pig, smoked cooked in maize<br />

frutescens, Alium cepa, salt<br />

with salt, onion, and hot pepper.<br />

oil, salt, onion, and hot pepper<br />

Water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquatius A mix part <strong>of</strong> the meat is salted and smoke Chevrotain, smoked, salted<br />

roots,<br />

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