False banana: Is Ethiopia's enset 'wondercrop' for climate change?

BBC ^ | 1/21/22 | Helen Briggs

[DallasBiff]

Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple, could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change.

The banana-like crop has the potential to feed more than 100 million people in a warming world, according to a new study.

The plant is almost unknown outside of Ethiopia, where it is used to make porridge and bread.

Research suggests the crop can be grown over a much larger range in Africa.

[DallasBiff]

My last post of the day, but couldn't help the joke about a "false banana' in the headline. Is that a transy banana? Any way the article says it is good for porridge, I guess the BBC wants all of us to eat porridge, just like Goldilocks.

[William of Barsoom]

Seems like it’d be better than bugs...
What’s it tase like?

[Red Badger]

Yes, we have no bananas..................

[TonyinLA]

I’ve never tried. Maybe.

Pics of the fruit are misleading. According to gastro websites, the fruit is inedible. The stem and roots can be processed into a goo that is used instead of flower to make a bread-like substance. Probably would kill the plant, though. So not sure how this “food” is supposed to supplant already widely available staples.

I’d think that if it was even slightly tasty, we’d see it oustide of tribal lands in Ethiopia, though.

[butlerweave]

There are 17 climates on the planet climate is just weather and it’s impossible for all the climates to be the same these people are Insane

[MtnClimber]

It seems Barbecue in Haiti may have some recipes that could be used on tender leftists.

[oil_dude]

why not just plant more bananas?

[Seruzawa]

You can get in on the ground floor! Invest now!

[libertylover]

Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple, could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change.

I really do wish these do-gooders would just mind their own business.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "What’s it taste like?"

Bugs.

[DoubleNickle]

Neither does Scranton, PA according to Harry...Cheers!

[Obadiah]

BBC and Climate Change

Two unmistakable man-made lies.

[ansel12]

They were a little heavy handed weren’t they when they chose those two bananas for the comparison photo?

[Gen.Blather]

“why not just plant more bananas?

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It would be hard to make an article out of that suggestion and somehow work in climate change. Unless they’re suggesting we plant them in Canada or the Russian tundra.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

They should just use breadfruit and jackfruit. Tropical, grow on trees and you do not have to kill the plant to harvest the food portion.

Breadfruit

Jackfruit

[catnipman]

feeding the world during "climate change":

[Sequoyah101]

There are certain foods I have seen and eaten around the world that remain local favorites because anyone who has something else to eat does.

[Williams]

This story really has nothing to do with climate change, but their research and this article will get much wider circulation if they keep saying “climate change”.

If this stuff will feed Africa, great.

Article makes me feel Africa is a very primitive place, with way too many people to feed.

[Williams]

Makes you wonder with all the crops used all over the world, why they don’t have enough to eat.

[Sequoyah101]

How about OKRA? My wife says it is a “super food”. It will grow when nothing else will and produce when everything else in the garden is shriveled to straw in the hottest, driest part of summer. You can bol it, bake it, fry it, pickle it or just eat it raw if you dare. Aside from all of these merits I read that it has almost no nutritional value as it has almost no calories. Great stuff, sort of like a false banana. I suppose you could also make porridge out of OKRA but I never tried that.