| The main staple foods served with Ghanaian meals are rice, millet, corn, cassava, yams, and plantains. |
| Hit by stagnating prices, thousands of growers have cut down their banana trees and replaced them with plantains or arrowroot. |
| It is served with fried plantains, black beans, cornmeal pancakes called arepas, rice, and, sometimes, white cheese. |
| Fried green plantains, called tostones or mariquitas, and ripe plantains, or maduros, round out the meal. |
| Ripe fried plantains are called amarillas, green fried ones are patacon pisao, and they become tostones when fried and mashed. |
| In the southern areas, the major staples are root crops such as cassava and cocoyams, and plantains and in the arid north, sorghum and millet. |
