Levantamento e caracterização das plantas alimentícias não convencionais (PANC) utilizados por moradores da comunidade Boa Esperança Itacoatiara - AM

Abstract

Little known food plants, but which have one or more parts of food importance, are currently being called Unconventional Food Plants (PANC). These PANCs, in most cases grow spontaneously in unwanted places and are commonly and unfairly considered as "weeds", or "invasives". Aiming at introducing them in into the human diet, expanding and diversifying food, the presente study aimed to survey the use of Unconventional food plants in the Boa Esperança rural community in Itacoatiara, state of Amazonas. The research technique used is known as “Snowball”, in which a respondente who i salso a PANC commentator, and so the process is repeated until the number of species is stagnant; through this technique, semi-structured interviews were carried out to carry out the ethnobotanical survey with 17 families. Were identified 20 species, belonghing to 20 genera and 17 botaniacal families. With regard to the habit of plant growth, the sub-shrub was predominantly in descending order, followed by arboreal, climbing, shrub, herbaceous and palm trees. The species come from capoeiras, forest fragments, backyards, rocks and floodplains. They are consumed in natura or of varied forms (sauces, drinks and sweets). Among the most consumed vegetable parts, the fruit was the most cited form (50%) followed by the leaves (40%), tuber (5%) and bark (5%). Some species have more than one adible part. The index of relative importance of Marrubium vulgare L. (hortelã-grande), Portulaca oleraceae L. (carirú / beldroega) and Physalis angulata (Aubl) Willd (camapú) was the highest, being cited by 33% of informants each. The data obtained indicated that the population of this community has a strong relationship with PANC.