name: Nance

flavor_db_name_variants: nance

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Nance

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name_scientific: Byrsonima crassifolia

description: Nance (also called craboo, kraabu, Savanna Serrette and Golden Spoon) is a species native to tropical America. It is valued for its small, sweet, yellow fruit, which are strongly scented. The fruits are eaten raw or cooked as dessert. In rural Panama, the dessert prepared with the addition of sugar and flour, known as pesada de nance, is quite popular. The fruits are also made into dulce de nance, a candy prepared with the fruit cooked in sugar and water. In Nicaragua (where the fruit is called nancite), it is a popular ingredient for several desserts, including raspados (mixed with ice). The fruits are often used to prepare carbonated beverages, flavor mezcal-based liqueurs, or make an oily, acidic, fermented beverage known as chicha, the standard term applied to assorted beer-like drinks made of fruits or maize. Nance is used to distill a rum-like liquor called crema de nance in Costa Rica. Mexico produces a licor de nanche. [Wikipedia]

itis_id: 29263

wikipedia_id: Byrsonima_crassifolia

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picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 111137

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:26.000Z

legacy_id: null

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Tropical fruits

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-12-19T21:44:22.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:32.000Z

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updater_id: 2

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 4270

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public_id: FOOD00788