Cocoyam

Xanthosoma sagittifoliumAlso called xanthosoma sagittifolium, Malanga, Malangas and Tannia

Cooks treat cocoyam as a vegetable. They use its corm and root.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Corm, root
Family: Araceae
Cooked most in: Africa, The Americas
Top country: Cameroon
Dishes: 4 in the catalogue

Photo: Dorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Around the world

Where cocoyam is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use cocoyam. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cocoyam among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with cocoyam

4 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Ofe Oha
Nigeria
Achu soup
Cameroon
Pom
Suriname
Fio Fio

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cocoyam.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: cocoyam in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Around the world

What cocoyam is called

Names in 72 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Cocoyam
French
Cocoyam
Italian
Cocoyam
Portuguese
Cocoyam
German
Cocoyam
Dutch
Cocoyam
Polish
Cocoyam
Japanese
ココヤム
Vietnamese
Cocoyam
Indonesian
Cocoyam
Malay
Cocoyam
Swahili
Cocoyam

Show all 72 languages

Afrikaans
Cocoyam
Akan
Mankani
Aragonese
Cocoyam
Arpitan
Cocoyam
Asturian
Cocoyam
Austrian German
Cocoyam
Basque
Cocoyam
Bavarian
Cocoyam
Brazilian Portuguese
Cocoyam
Breton
Cocoyam
Catalan
Cocoyam
Corsican
Cocoyam
Croatian
Cocoyam
Czech
Cocoyam
Danish
Cocoyam
Esperanto
Cocoyam
Estonian
Cocoyam
Finnish
Cocoyam
Frafra
Bankanɛ · Bankanɛ bii kanbunnyuure
Friulian
Cocoyam
Galician
Cocoyam
Icelandic
Cocoyam
Ido
Cocoyam
Igbo
ede · utara ede
Interlingua
Cocoyam
Interlingue
Cocoyam
Irish
Cocoyam
Kongo
Cocoyam
Ligurian
Cocoyam
Limburgish
Cocoyam
Low German
Cocoyam
Low Saxon
Cocoyam
Luxembourgish
Cocoyam
Malagasy
Cocoyam
Minangkabau
Cocoyam
Neapolitan
Cocoyam
Norwegian Bokmål
Cocoyam
Norwegian Nynorsk
Cocoyam
nrm
Cocoyam
Obolo
Ikpọ̀n̄
Occitan
Cocoyam
Picard
Cocoyam
Piedmontese
Cocoyam
Romanian
Cocoyam
Romansh
Cocoyam
Sardinian
Cocoyam
Scots
Cocoyam
Scottish Gaelic
Cocoyam
Serbian (Latin)
Cocoyam
Sicilian
Cocoyam
Slovak
Cocoyam
Slovenian
Cocoyam
Swedish
Cocoyam
Swiss German
Cocoyam
Swiss High German
Cocoyam
Tyap
A̱kamm
Ukrainian
Кокоям
Venetian
Cocoyam
Volapük
Cocoyam
Walloon
Cocoyam
Welsh
Cocoyam
West Flemish
Cocoyam
Wolof
Cocoyam
Zulu
Cocoyam

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q2149005

Photos