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Redalyc.Bromeliads: Traditional Plant Food in Latin America Since Polibotánica ISSN: 1405-2768 [email protected] Departamento de Botánica México Hornung-Leoni, Claudia T. Bromeliads: Traditional Plant Food in Latin America Since Prehispanic Times Polibotánica, núm. 32, agosto, 2011, pp. 219-229 Departamento de Botánica Distrito Federal, México Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=62119933014 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Núm. 32, pp. 219-229, ISSN 1405-2768; México, 2011 BROMELIADS: TRADITIONAL PLANT FOOD IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE PREHISPANIC TIMES Claudia T. Hornung-Leoni Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo Apartado Postal 69-1, Plaza Juárez Centro, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México. Tel.: (52) 771 71 72000, Ext. 6655 Fax: 771 71 72000, Ext. 2112. Correo electrónico: [email protected]; [email protected] ABSTRACT RESUMEN Bromeliads are monocots that have been Las bromelias son monocotiledóneas que consumed by natives in Latin America han sido consumidas por los nativos desde since pre-Hispanic times. The principal tiempos prehispánicos. Los principales usos ways bromeliads are used as food sources de las bromelias como fuente alimenticia include the whole fruit or another part of incluyen desde el fruto completo hasta the plant. They are eaten as a vegetable una parte de la planta, consumidas or prepared in beverages (fermented or como vegetales o en bebidas preparadas unfermented). This study includes local (fermentadas o no). Este trabajo incluye literature, personal observations and open literatura local, observaciones personales interviews with people who know about y entrevistas abiertas a pobladores. Los the alimentary uses of bromeliads. The resultados incluyen diez países y 24 especies results cover ten countries and 24 species de bromelias de las cuales se han registrado of bromeliads which have been reported y descrito un uso tradicional alimenticio, de and described as traditional foodstuffs. Of las cuales el 76.9% presenta un solo uso y el these, 76.9% have only a single use and 23.0% dos usos diferentes, contrastando con 23.0% have two different uses. One species una sola especie (Bromelia pinguin) que tiene (Bromelia pinguin) has three different uses. tres usos diferentes. Estas plantas han sido Even in the present day these plants are still consumidas, incluso en nuestros días, como eaten as vegetables (12 sp.), used to prepare vegetales (14 especies), para preparar bebidas beverages (11 sp.) and/or consumed directly (11 especies) y/o directamente como frutos as fruits (nine sp.). It is important to note that (nueve especies). Es importante resaltar, que contrary to expectations, in Latin America contrario a lo esperado, las bromelias son bromeliads are consumed more as vegetables más consumidas en Latinoamérica como than fruits. vegetales que como frutos. Key words: Bromeliaceae, uses, food, Latin Palabras clave: Bromeliaceae, usos, America. alimento, Latinoamérica. 219 Núm. 32: 219-229 Agosto 2011 INTRODUCTION AND METHODS field in Venezuela (Andes, Mérida state; Caracas), Mexico (Jalisco and Hidalgo The Bromeliaceae are plants principally states), Peru (Huascarán, Huaráz) and Chile found in the neotropics (Benzing, 2000) (Santiago and Valle de Aconcagua, and and include about 3172 species in 58 Valle de Colchagua). The first step was to genera (Luther, 2008). The family includes use photographs of the plants to ask people epiphyte species such as Spanish moss if they knew the plants. They were asked (Tillandsia usneoides), saxicolous species about the uses they made of the plants. such as “guapilla” (Hechtia glomerata) Afterwards the plants were examined in their and terrestrial species such as the pineapple environment so they could be identified. (Ananas comosus) (Benzing, 2000). The interviewees were local people, usually However Bromeliaceae is much more than farmers, with the exception of some urban a source of pineapple, house plants and fiber people interviewed in capital cities, such for traditional uses. Various cultures have as Caracas and Santiago. The results of the been using bromeliads for thousands of years open interviews are cited in the text as “pers. (Bennett, 2000). The Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, comm. name” (the name of the informant). Quechuas, Yanomami and other peoples used Materials of the collected species were them for food, fiber, ceremonies, medicine deposited in Latin American herbaria: and ornamental plants (Bennett, 2000; Pierce Peruvian species were deposited in USM 2000; Rondón, 2003), just as they are still (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, used in the present day. Since their tissues Lima, Peru), Chilean species in HDCV and accumulate water and nutrients, plants in this some duplicates in SGO (Museo Nacional family have long been consumed by both de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile). humans and animals. In Venezuela, vouchers were deposited in MERC (Universidad de Los Andes, Bromeliads have been studied from various Ciencias, Mérida, Venezuela), and in Mexico points of view since they have always been the material from Hidalgo was deposited in very important to ecosystems, due to their HGOM (Universidad Autónoma del Estado biological interactions and as food resources de Hidalgo, Centro de Investigaciones for animals. The aim of this study was to Biológicas, Mexico). Vouchers from USM, compile information on human consumption US (Smithsonian Institution, USA), F (Field of bromeliads, because this a less well known Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA) use of the family. We compiled data from and VEN (Fundación Instituto Botánico de personal observations, open interviews with Venezuela, Caracas), with emphasis on Puya, local people from various countries, and a were also reviewed, and only cases with literature review. This study is focused on the ethnobiological information from herbarium use of bromeliads as food, principally from specimen labels are mentioned in this study. an anthropocentric point of view. Vouchers from herbariums reviewed are cited as “collector #, collector, herbarium!.” The study summarizes an updated review of The exclamation point before the herbarium recent and local literature. It also includes acronym indicates that the voucher was open interviews with local people as well reviewed in the stated herbarium as referred as personal observations carried out in the to in taxonomical studies. 220 Hornung-Leoni, C.T.: Bromeliads: Traditional plant food in Latin America since prehispanic times RESULTS AND DISCUSSION American fruit known in Europe since the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus, Anthropocentric uses when it was named “pineapple” because of its resemblance to the pine cone (Benzing, Even though the better-known bromeliad 2000; Betancur, 2001). In the Amazonian uses are not gastronomic, as these plants Tupí-Guaraní language, spoken over a region are used principally as ornamentals and as a that includes several countries (Argentina, fiber resource (Hornung-Leoni, unpublished Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, data), the goal of this paper is to show the Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela), importance of the family as food in different Ananas is a word in which A means “fruit” cultures. Bromeliads are an important and nanas “exquisite” (Oliva-Esteva and source of protein in several ways; as fresh Steyermark, 1987). fruit, beverages, or vegetables. It is known that various people from different parts of In the New World, bromeliads had been Latin America eat parts of these plants; for consumed by Latin American natives from example the Pima of Mexico occasionally different countries. In Venezuela indigenous eat T. erubescens and T. recurvata flowers, coastal tribes ate the berry of Bromelia apparently attracted by the high sugar content chrysantha Jacq. known as “maya”, a sour- (Laferriere et al., 1991); and the shoot apices tasting fruit with a sweet smell resembling of T. maxima and T. rubella are consumed pineapple, as a fruit or in beverages in Argentina and Bolivia (Benzing 1980). It (fermented drinks used during ceremonies) is known that bromeliads have proteins and (Hornung 1998; Oliva-Esteva 1987). In the enzymes (e.g. bromelin, balansain), that Orinoco River region in Venezuela, both the could have medicinal uses (Benzing 2000; wild fruits of Ananas sativus, a succulent Pardo et al., 2000). pineapple consumed since the eighteenth century and B. chrysantha, a type of berry Traditional alimentary uses have been have been eaten fresh or roasted (Perera reported from several different countries of 2006). In Colombia it is documented that the Latin America for 19 species of six genera wild fruit of B. chrysantha and B. pinguin are (Table 1). These results include plants in used as food (Rangel et al., 1977). which only the fruit is consumed directly (11 species), some in which a vegetative The fruits of Bromelia karatas L. are red part is used (10 species) and others used to outside and white inside and are eaten or prepare beverages (five species) (Fig. 1). It is made into a soft drink in Venezuela (Pittier, worth noting that a single use is reported for 1978; Oliva-Esteva, 1987; Comité de 68.4% of the species and two different uses Bromeliología, 2006) or a sweet conserve for 26.3%, while only one species (Bromelia (Pittier, 1978). This fruit is also eaten pinguin) has three different uses. abundantly in Chiapas, Mexico (Guess and Guess, 2001) and in Hidalgo, Mexico Bromeliads have been consumed by humans (Villavicencio and Pérez, 2005). In Hidalgo since pre-Hispanic times. One of the first the fruit known as “timbiriche” is found in plants from this family to be identified was popular markets in the form of “agua de the pineapple (Ananas comosus L.), a South sabor,” a sweetened, diluted juice made 221 Núm. 32: 219-229 Agosto 2011 Table 1. Traditional plant uses in Latin America. None of the species listed here appear in The IUCN Red List (reviewed in II/2011). Species name Reported in Uses categories In as vegetable (or Fresh Fruit beverage vegetative part) 1.
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