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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">Traditional knowledge associated with <i>numsing, </i>an ethnic fish product prepared by <i>Mising</i> tribes of Upper Assam, India</span>
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9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt" lang="EN-US">The common method of preparation of numsing,
a traditional fish product developed by the Mising community of
Assam
and the traditional knowledge associated with it are discussed. Flame dried and
smoked small economic fish species (Puntius spp., Amblypharyngodon
sp., Lepidocephalus sp., Channa spp., Trichogaster
(Colisa) spp., Danio spp., Mastacembelus spp., Mystus
spp., Rasbora spp., etc.) and petioles of arum (Alocasia
macrorrhiza) are ground together, packed in bamboo container and fermented
for about 30 days to prepare the product. The complete process involves
11 distinct steps and the end product is preserved in the fermenting bamboo
container itself by keeping it suspended over a fire place. It is consumed
after steam cooking or after preparing some curry along with vegetables. Protein
rich fish is balanced with carbohydrate content in the product, probably
increasing the dietary fibre content as well, when it is supplemented with arum
petioles. In addition, the product is the outcome of a wonderful traditional
technology which combines three well established food processing techniques
–drying, smoking and fermentation and also a compatible means of preserving
fish for scares-fish seasons as a partial solution to protein malnutrition.
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