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Title: | Traditional processing of black and white chuño in the peruvian andes: regional variants and effect on the mineral content of native potato cultivars | Authors: | Haan, Stef de Burgos, Gabriela Arcos Pineda, Jesús Ccanto, Raul Scurrah, Maria Salas Murrugarra, Elisa del Carmen Bonierbale, Merideth |
Keywords: | Andes;Micro-and macronutrient content;Potato;Traditional freeze-drying | Issue Date: | 11-Aug-2010 | Publisher: | Springer Nature | Source: | De Haan, S.; Burgos, G.; Arcos, J. et al. (2010). Traditional processing of black and white chuño in the peruvian andes: regional variants and effect on the mineral content of native potato cultivars. Economy Botany, 64(3), 217-234. doi: 10.1007/s12231-010-9128-x | Journal: | Economic Botany | Abstract: | Traditional Processing of Black and White Chuño in the Peruvian Andes: Regional Variants and Effect on the Mineral Content of Native Potato Cultivars. Farmers in the high Andes of central to southern Peru and Bolivia typically freeze-dry potatoes to obtain chuño. Processing of so-called black chuño follows tending, treading, freezing, and drying. The making of white chuño is generally more complex and involves exposure of tubers to water. Regional variants exist for each of these processes, yet their influence on the nutritional composition of native potato cultivars is little known. Tubers belonging to four distinct cultivars and produced in a replicated trial under uniform conditions were processed into four types of chuño following standard traditional procedures (farmer-managed). These regional variants were documented, and the dry matter, iron, zinc, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and sodium content of the four resulting different types of boiled chuño determined at the International Potato Center's Quality and Nutrition Laboratory (Lima, Peru). Content values were compared with those of boiled (unprocessed) tubers from the same experiment. Regional variants of processing are to a large extent determined by tradition, environmental condition, and market demand. The zinc, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium content of all types of chuño decreases in comparison with unprocessed tubers. Concentrations of these same minerals decrease more drastically for white as compared to black chuño. The effect of the four regional variants of freeze-drying on the dry matter, iron, calcium, and sodium content of chuño differs by process and/or cultivar. |
Description: | 18 páginas |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12955/1985 | ISSN: | 0013-0001 | DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-010-9128-x | Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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