Yes its a staple but it needs a stapler to work
Plantain
There are several staple foods in Cameroon I think, which are : cassava, yam, rice, plantain, potato, maize, beans, and millet. See related links for more.
A plantain is the fruiting body of a type of banana plant and even though it is seedless this makes it a fruit, no matter how your cook it.
Dough made from boiled and ground plantain or cassava, used as a staple food in parts of western and central Africa.
yes sweet plantain is better than green plantain
no, plantain is not poisonous to horses, the plantain leaf they can eat but they never go near it but, they can't eat the plantain lilly as it is toxic to cats dogs and horses.
can i feed dog plantain.
plantain contains iron that is the unripe one.while the ripe one contAins carbohydrate which is not good to the body.so avoid it
Other Names: black-jacks, black plantain, buck plantain, cocks, costa canina, English plantain, hen plant, jackstraw, kemps, lamb's tongue, lance-leaved plantain, long plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, quinquenervia, rat-tail, rib-grass, ribble grass, ribwort, snake plantain, wendles.REFERENCE: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecord.asp?id=800#other
276 calories per medium plantain
Translation: banana
Plantain in Spanish is Platano (which is also the same word used for Banana).