GSJ: Volume 9, Issue 2, February 2021 ISSN 2320-9186 1104 GSJ: Volume 9, Issue 2, February 2021, Online: ISSN 2320-9186 www.globalscientificjournal.com HERITAGE FRUITS CONSUMED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE NYONG AND KELLE DIVISION: CAMEROON Research Article Bayi Joseph, Ngah Esther, Megueni Clautilde 1*. University of Ngaoundéré, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
[email protected] 1. University of Ngaoundéré, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
[email protected] 2. National School of Agro Industrial Sciences (ENSAI), Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon hadassa.ngah@gmail. com ABSTRACT The present work aims to show the heritage fruits consumed by the people of the Nyong and Kelle division. Heritage fruits are fruits which come from an area and are consumed by the people of this area for many years; these fruits are bequeathed to the next generation. A systematic survey was carried out to identify heritage fruits in the markets, crop farms and forest of the study area. With modernization heritage fruits are been abandoned by the present generation in the way that if nothing is done some of these heritage fruits will disappear from the consumption chain if they are not bequeathed to the next generation, this will lead to the loss of food identity and acculturation of the population of the study area. In all 34 heritage fruits were encountered and they fell under 21 botanical families according to the Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III classification. Nine of these fruits were not consumed directly but are dried and transformed into spices to season meals.