Vegetables Tubers & Starchy 🇬🇧 CoFID 2021 · 13-279
✦ Starchy energy ✦ Potassium source ✦ Vitamin B6 ✦ Low fat

Matoki are East African cooking bananas (matoke), starchy and treated like a vegetable. They provide carbohydrate energy, potassium, vitamin B6, and small amounts of vitamin C and fibre.

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Preparation note

Always cook before eating; raw matoki are unpalatably starchy and high in resistant starch.

Sources: CoFID 2021

Macronutrients per 100g

385
kJ
Energy
1.20
g
Protein
22.3
g
Carbs
1.50
g
Fibre
0.20
g
Fat
0.90
g
Sugars
0.10
g
Saturates
0.01
g
Salt

Vitamins & Minerals

Nutrient Per 100g % Daily Value* Level
Potassium 400 mg 20%
Folate 73.0 µg 37%
Chloride 61.0 mg 8%
Phosphorus 35.0 mg 5%
Magnesium 33.0 mg 9%
Vitamin C 14.0 mg 18%
Calcium 5.00 mg 1%
Vitamin A (RAE) 2.50 µg 0%
Selenium 1.00 µg 2%
Manganese 0.500 mg 25%
Niacin (B3) 0.400 mg 3%
Vitamin B6 0.370 mg 26%
Iron 0.300 mg 2%
Zinc 0.200 mg 2%
Copper 0.130 mg 13%
Riboflavin (B2) 0.100 mg 7%
Thiamin (B1) 0.080 mg 7%
Vitamin B12 0.000 µg 0%
Vitamin D 0.000 µg 0%
Polyunsaturated fat (PUFA) 0.100 g —
Sucrose 0.700 g —
Glucose (dextrose) 0.100 g —
Fructose 0.100 g —
Cholesterol 0.000 mg —
Beta-carotene 30.0 µg —
Retinol (vitamin A) 0.000 µg 0%

* % Daily Value based on EU Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs). — indicates no EU NRV established.

Primary data source for this entry: McCance & Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID 2021), Public Health England. Source record tag: CoFID 2021. All values are per 100g fresh weight unless stated. % Daily Values based on EU Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) per Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011. Nutriofia is a research and information resource — nothing on this page constitutes medical advice. Page generated from Nutriofia database · Argarth Collective Ltd · Company No. 16864945.