| Description | Report prepared by D G Osborne, Secretary to the British Embassy in Washington, DC, on the uses of plantain. Describes the method of harvesting green plantain to dry it and crack it into soup, boil as porridge, or ground it into a flour -- says it is 'most palatable and highly nutritious' used in this way, and that the food is used in tropical countries for the young and for invalids -- notes that the yield is so abundant that 'the British colonies in the tropics could feed the Empire...being sufficient to sustain life in full vigor without other food' -- notes that the United Fruit Co opposes other uses for fruit besides fresh imports, to protect their monopoly -- says Frank Cundall, Secretary of the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, can contact samples of dried plantain. |