Table 4.
Description of some foods unique to Zimbabwe
| Food | Description |
| Bread, cereal and starches | |
| Sadza | Stiff porridge (prepared from meal of maize, millet, sorghum or rice) and contain a small amount of fibre. The meal of maize is the staple food in Zimbabwe |
| Samp (Mashakada*) | Boiled maize grain (previously dried), sometimes its degerminated broken grain, pounded and boiled |
| Mealie Porridge | Ground corn, boiled not too thick, if more is added becomes sadza, other foods can be added like peanut butter (sometimes margarine), sugar (amounts depends on quantity), milk, some people even add bread |
| Pumpkin Porridge African bread | Mash prepared from cattle melon or pumpkin ingredients: corn flour, egg, sugar and water |
| Fruits | |
| Baobab | Adansonia digitata |
| Paw Paw | Carica Papaya, Papaya |
| Naartjie | Citrus aurantium, Tangerine |
| Shakata | Parinari Curatellifolia, Mobola Plum |
| Vegetables | |
| Gourd (dende*) | Lagenaria siceraria, Containe of groundnut butter |
| Taro | Colacasia antiquorum, Yam |
| Mowa | Decumbent perennial weed; Amaranthus thunbergii& graecizans (leaves cooked as spinach) |
| Meat | |
| Caterpillar | Edible caterpillar (dark, with white fur, found on musasa trees. Eaten fried or sun-dried |
| Matemba, Kapenta Mouse | Small fish caught mostly from lake Kariba Wild mice (not rats or house mice), these are trapped in the wild or fields. Eaten cooked with soup or dried. |
| Milk and dairy product | |
| Lacto | Commercially produced fermented milk and taste sour |
* Name of food in Shona