page_title: East African Highland bananas
hierarchical_section_title: East African Highland bananas
caption_attribution_description: English: Matoke (or matooke; i.e., plaintain bananas) in Kampala, Uganda. Matoke is the main staple food of the country.
context_page_description: East African Highland bananas are triploid banana cultivars originating from the African Great Lakes region. They are a staple food crop in Uganda, Tanzania and other Great Lakes countries, and are used to make matoke.
  East African Highland bananas are also known as the Mutika/Lujugira subgroup.
  Matoke locally also known as matooke, amatooke, ekitookye in south western Uganda, ekitooke in western Uganda, ebitooke in north western Tanzania and igitoki in Rwanda, is a starchy variety of banana. The fruit is harvested green, carefully peeled and then cooked and often mashed or pounded into a meal. In Uganda and Rwanda, the fruit is steam-cooked, and the mashed meal is considered a national dish in both countries.
  The medium-sized green fruits, which are of a specific group of banana, the East African Highland bananas, are known in the Bantu languages of Uganda as matoke.
  Cooking bananas have long been and still are a common staple crop around the Lake Victoria area of Uganda, and in the West and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania.
context_section_description: East African Highland bananas (EAHB) are triploid banana cultivars originating from the African Great Lakes region. They are a staple food crop in Uganda, Tanzania and other Great Lakes countries, and are used to make matoke.
  East African Highland bananas are also known as the Mutika/Lujugira subgroup.
  Matoke locally also known as matooke, amatooke, ekitookye in south western Uganda, ekitooke in western Uganda, ebitooke in north western Tanzania and igitoki in Rwanda, is a starchy variety of banana. The fruit is harvested green, carefully peeled and then cooked and often mashed or pounded into a meal. In Uganda and Rwanda, the fruit is steam-cooked, and the mashed meal is considered a national dish in both countries. 
  The medium-sized green fruits, which are of a specific group of banana, the East African Highland bananas (Musa AAA-EA), are known in the Bantu languages of Uganda as matoke.
  Cooking bananas have long been and still are a common staple crop around the Lake Victoria area of Uganda, and in the West and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania.
caption: Matoke market in Kampala, Uganda
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