Coca flour is made from whole ground dried coca leaves harvested from the coca plant,[1] Erythroxylum coca or Erythroxylum novogranatense. Coca flour is commercially produced and sold in stores in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
Coca flour is primarily used regionally as a nutritional additive in breads, cakes, candy, juices and cereals. In the Andes it is widely accepted as a natural medicine, and used as a remedy for gastritis, colic, rheumatism, arthritis, dry cough, cholesterol and diabetes.[2].
Coca flour is also used as a capsulized food supplement as it contains all natural properties of the whole coca leaf including the essential minerals (calcium, potassium, phosphorus), vitamins (B1, B2, C, and E) and nutrients such as protein and fiber.[3]
References [link]
- ^ Plowman T. "Botanical Perspectives on Coca." Journal of Psychedelic Drugs. 1979. 11(1-2): 103-117.
- ^ "They must fight the demand and stop stigmatizing the coca countries." ABI (Agencia Boliviana de Informacion) 26 April 2012.
- ^ James, A., Aulick, D., Plowman, T., 1975 “Nutritional Value of Coca”, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 24 (6): 113-119.
External links [link]
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Flour
Flour is a powder made by grinding uncooked cereal grains or other seeds or roots (like cassava). It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history. Wheat flour is one of the most important ingredients in Oceanic, European, South American, North American, Middle Eastern, Indian and North African cultures, and is the defining ingredient in their styles of breads and pastries.
While wheat is the most common base for flour, maize flour has been important in Mesoamerican cuisine since ancient times and remains a staple in the Americas. Rye flour is a constituent of bread in central Europe.
Etymology
The English word for "flour" is originally a variant of the word "flower". Both derive from the Old French fleur or flour, which had the literal meaning "blossom", and a figurative meaning "the finest". The phrase "fleur de farine" meant "the finest part of the meal", since flour resulted from the elimination of coarse and unwanted matter from the grain during milling.
Flour (disambiguation)
Flour is a common food ingredient made from wheat, rice, or other starchy sources.
Flour may also refer to:
See also
Flour (band)
Flour is an American band. Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured ex-Big Black guitarist Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac. Flour's solo recordings feature the drum machine sound characteristic of Big Black and toyed with by many other independent rock bands in the Midwest during that time period. Flour's third solo album Machinery Hill was described by Allmusic's Richard Foss as "an oddball masterpiece of grinding guitar, fluid bass, hammering drums, and very creative ideas".
In the mid-1990s, Conway was part of an all-bass trio, called Brits Out of America, along with Dana Cochrane of Mickey Finn, Amy Larson of Strumpet, and Ben Ivascu of Polica, STNNNG, Marijuana Deathsquads, etc.
Coca
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to Southwest America.
The plant is grown as a cash crop in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, even in areas where its cultivation is unlawful. It also plays a role in many traditional Andean cultures as well as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (see Traditional uses). Coca is known throughout the world for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. The alkaloid content of coca leaves is low, between 0.25% and 0.77%. This means that chewing the leaves or drinking coca tea does not produce the high (euphoria, megalomania, depression) people experience with cocaine. Coca leaf extract had been used in Coca-Cola products since 1885, with cocaine being completely eliminated from the products in or around 1929. Extraction of cocaine from coca requires several solvents and a chemical process known as an acid/base extraction, which can fairly easily extract the alkaloids from the plant.
Description
The coca plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft). The branches are straight, and the leaves are thin, opaque, oval, and taper at the extremities. A marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by two longitudinal curved lines, one line on each side of the midrib, and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf.
Coca (disambiguation)
Coca may also refer to:
- Eugen Coca, Moldovian composer and violinist
- Imogene Coca (1908–2001), comic actress
- Fat Joe, who uses Coca as a nickname
- Coca de Alba, a town in Salamanca, Spain
- Coca, Segovia, a town in Segovia, Spain
- Pizzo Coca, the highest point of Bergamo Alps, Italy
- Coca, a village in Călineşti-Oaş Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania
- Coca River, a river in Ecuador
- Coca, an alternative name for the city of Puerto Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador
Coca (pastry)
The coca (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkokə], Western Catalan: [ˈkokɛ]) is a pastry typically made and consumed in territories of Catalan culture.
The coca is just one way of preparing a dish traditionally made all around the Mediterranean.
Etymology
The Catalan word coca—plural coques—comes from Dutch during the Carolingian Empire, and shares the same roots as the English "cake" and the German "kuchen".
Similarities
There are many diverse cocas, with four main varieties: sweet, savoury, closed and open. All of them use dough as the main ingredient, which is then decorated. This dough can be sweet or savoury. If it is sweet, eggs and sugar are added, and if it is savoury, yeast and salt. As regards the topping or filling, fish and vegetables are usual at the coast whilst inland they prefer fruit, nuts, cheese and meat. Some cocas can be both sweet and savoury (typically mixing meat and fruit).
Types of coca
Coca is almost any kind of bread-based product. Its size can vary from 5 cm up to 1 metre. There are various presentations:
