Ndunduma (Diplotaxodon spp.)
Ndunduma is the Malawian name for small deep-water cichlids of the genus Diplotaxodon, caught in Lake Malawi and dried with usipa and utaka. The species in a given lot is often not recorded.
Ingredients
1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.
Fruit, vegetables and seaweedsFruit, vegetables, roots, alliums, seaweeds and algae.
Grains, legumes and nutsGrains, flours, malts, starches, beans, pulses, nuts, seeds and the coffee, cocoa and tea crops.
Mushrooms and fungiCultivated and wild mushrooms, truffles and other edible fungi, and lichens.
Meat and fishMeat, offal, fat, casings, fish, shellfish and insects.
Dairy and eggsMilk by animal, cream, butter, milk powders, rennets, dairy additives and eggs.
Sugars and sweetenersRefined and unrefined sugars, honeys, syrups, molasses and malt sugars.
Herbs and spicesHerbs, seed and bark spices, peppercorns, chillies, aromatic roots, brewing botanicals and resins.
Fish
Utaka (Copadichromis spp.)
Utaka is a small cichlid of Lake Malawi, from the genus Copadichromis, sold dried in Malawi. It is one of the small fish that solar tents were tested on alongside usipa and ndunduma.
Tilapia
Tilapia is a common market name for several African freshwater cichlids, not one species. It is eaten fresh, farmed and preserved in distinct regional forms, including Ghanaian koobi and Botswana salt-dried fish.
Fish trim
Fish trim is a variable food-processing material, from fillet offcuts to recovered flesh. Species, source tissues, bone and skin content, and handling history determine what a particular lot contains.
Fish
Fish is a broad raw ingredient whose species, cut and condition shape its texture, fat content and use. It can become a meal’s main portion or the raw material for distinct salted, dried and fermented preparations.
Small fish used in fish sauces
Anchovies, scad, and small cyprinids appear in documented regional fish sauces. Species selection and handling matter because fish hazards vary by species and process.
Cyprinid fish
Freshwater fish substrate in a Vietnamese fish-sauce account, which particularly names Mekong cá dánh (*Puntioplites falcifer*) as a prized household sauce fish.
Amberstripe scad
A marine scad named in a Vietnamese fish-sauce account as a whole-fish substrate; the account gives a 4:1 fish-to-salt example but no species-level voucher.
Anchovies
Anchovies are small schooling sea fish of the family Engraulidae, eaten fresh or dried and above all salted: as fillets in oil, whole salted fish or fish sauce.