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Analysis of consumer-oriented quality characteristics of raw and boiled plantains in Cameroon: implication for breeding |
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| Authors: | Gérard Ngoh Newilah Cédric Kendine Vepowo Annie Takam Ngouno Alexandre Bouniol Agnès Rolland-Sabaté Vivien Meli Meli Judéon Socrates Yong Lemoumoum Lora Forsythe Dominique Dufour Geneviève Fliedel |
| Affiliation: | 1. University of Dschang, PO Box 96, Dschang, Cameroon;2. Centre Africain de Recherches sur Bananiers et Plantains (CARBAP), PO Box 832, Douala, Cameroon Contribution: Conceptualization (supporting), Data curation (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting), Resources (equal), Software (supporting), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);3. University of Dschang, PO Box 96, Dschang, Cameroon Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting);4. CIRAD, UMR QUALISUD, Montpellier, F-34398 France Qualisud, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, Univ d'Avignon, Univ de La Réunion, Montpellier, F-34398 France Contribution: Formal analysis (supporting), Methodology (supporting);5. INRAE, UMR SQPOV, Avignon Université, Avignon, 84914 France Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Writing - review & editing (equal);6. University of Dschang, PO Box 96, Dschang, Cameroon Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting);7. University of Dschang, PO Box 96, Dschang, Cameroon Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Investigation (equal);8. National Research Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB UK Contribution: Methodology (supporting), Validation (supporting);9. CIRAD, UMR QUALISUD, Montpellier, F-34398 France Contribution: Funding acquisition (lead), Project administration (supporting), Resources (lead), Supervision (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting);10. CIRAD, UMR QUALISUD, Montpellier, F-34398 France Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Supervision (supporting), Validation (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting) |
| Abstract: | This study aimed at understanding users’ demand for raw and boiled plantains in rural and urban areas in West and Littoral regions of Cameroon. Surveys conducted in eight rural localities consisted of key informant interviews, gender-disaggregated focus group discussions, market and individual interviews. Processing and cooking diagnoses were done with restaurant cooks in urban areas, to know the details of plantain processing and boiling and to understand the quality characteristics of raw plantain that give a most-liked boiled plantain. Local favourite landraces, most cultivated landraces in Cameroon (Batard and Big ebanga) and a new CARBAP/CIRAD hybrid (CARBAP K74) were used. The preference for plantain cultivars was both gender and region-dependent. High-quality plantain should be mature, with big fingers and having a dark green peel colour. The fruit length and girth, pulp pH, dry matter content and firmness were found to be relevant postharvest quality characteristics for plantain breeding improvement. |
| Keywords: | Boiled plantain Cameroon focus group discussions individual interviews plantain processing quality characteristics surveys |