a deep brown vaste like substance and drving this under the sun until it is dehvdrated to the point where preservation is possible. It is then wrapped in drv pandanus leaves and tied into a neat roll until needed. a) Pandanus keys - bob. mash There are two basic types pf pandanus. q One is used to into mokon and averages about 50 pgrams per key; /0 another type is sel- dom cooked, contains little vulp and only about 30 grams of juice. This discarding No latter type is typically eaten raw by chewing and sucking and then the inedible core. There are about 40 keys to a stalk. known reliable calorie comparison factors for this latter tvpe of pandanus kev exist so we have used .58 calories/g.!! for both types has been assumed even though this is an overestimation for the latter. Depending on location (island/atoll) pandanus is eaten consistently for 4 months. 2 IN) Breadfruit - batakatak, bukrol. These are the seedless varieties of breadfruit. They contain about 500 grams of cooked edible portion at 1.3 cal/gram.!3 Three types of breadfruit are eaten consistently over a period of about 12 weeks per vear. ry) Preserved breadfruit (hatakatak and bukrol) - buido - 1.3 cal/gram with one fruit equal to 500 processed grams of buido. > The breadfruit is picked in large numbers at the peak of season, skinned, and decored, sliced and soaked within a copra sack in the lagoon for a period of hours or days. The sliced fruits are then mashed and allowed to sit and ferment underground within breadfruit leaves where drainage can take place. Before eating it is often rinsed in fresh water to reduce the salt content. 12) Breadfruit (variety with seeds) - Mejwan - 272 grams/fruit at 1.12 calories/gram, cooked and 1.22 calories/gram eaten raw.! Mejwan is always @ cooked in its unripe stage though unlike other varieties of breadfruit when ripe it can be eaten raw. It can also be prepared into Jankwon by baking the ripe fruits and then drying them under the sun. The jankwon so produced contains about 2.83 calories/gram. |? Mejwan is eaten consistently for about 9 weeks/yr. in its unripe stages and for about 5 weeks/yr. Breadfruit seeds (from mejwan) - Kole - each nut weighs about 2.5 grams and contains about 1.5 cal/gram.!° The nuts must be cooked to be eaten, and can be considered as a significant portion of the diet for only about 5 weeks per vear. Arrowroot - Mokmok - 3.5 calories /gram. 79 ter months whenthe plant itself dies, and rinsed of dirt in the lagoon. The tubers are dug up in the win- They are dumped into a copra sack They are then grated into pulp which is mixed with salt water and strained to separate the starch out of the solution. The solution containing the starchy material is usually trapped in a canvas lined pit which permits the salt water to seep through the canvas into the sand leaving the chalky starch behind which resembles plaster of Paris. The starch is then wrapped in a towel and hung up to drain and dry. It can then be used in cooking without further processing. - 20 - me 14)