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Ma

Breadfruit or banana fermented in a pit; sour paste baked with coconut cream.

Tonga Fermented & pickled Vegetarian One for the adventurous

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Tongan chiefly households kept ma pits as famine insurance, some maintained across generations and opened after hurricanes.

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What is Ma?

Ma is a fermented & pickled from Tonga: breadfruit or banana fermented in a pit; sour paste baked with coconut cream. Tongan chiefly households kept ma pits as famine insurance, some maintained across generations and opened after hurricanes.

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fruitbanana

Cooked

fermentedbaked

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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