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===Cuisine=== {{main|Cuisine of Burkina Faso}} [[File:Fufu.jpg|thumb|A plate of [[fufu]] (right) accompanied with [[peanut soup]]]] Typical of West African cuisine, Burkina Faso's cuisine is based on [[staple food]]s of [[sorghum]], [[millet]], rice, maize, peanuts, potatoes, [[bean]]s, [[yam (vegetable)|yam]]s and [[okra]].<ref name="ox">{{cite web|title=Oxfam's Cool Planet – Food in Burkina Faso|publisher=[[Oxfam]]|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/burkina/food.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517115414/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/burkina/food.htm|archive-date=17 May 2012|access-date=21 May 2008}}</ref> The most common sources of animal protein are chicken, chicken eggs and freshwater fish. A typical Burkinabè beverage is Banji or Palm Wine, which is fermented [[Palm wine|palm sap]]; and Zoom-kom, or "grain water" purportedly the national drink of Burkina Faso. Zoom-kom is milky-looking and whitish, having a water and cereal base, best drunk with ice cubes. In the more rural regions, in the outskirts of Burkina, you would find Dolo, which is drink made from fermented millet.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://sinotables.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1217:lhumeur-de-dom-zoom-kom-la-boisson-star-des-burkinabes&catid=48:encontinu-secondtwo-droite| title = article in French on Burkinabe Zoom-kom| access-date = 5 May 2015| archive-date = 31 December 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151231203019/http://sinotables.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1217:lhumeur-de-dom-zoom-kom-la-boisson-star-des-burkinabes&catid=48:encontinu-secondtwo-droite| url-status = dead}}</ref> In times of crisis, one legume native to Burkina, ''Zamnè,'' can be served as a main dish or in a sauce.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Drabo |first1=Moustapha Soungalo |last2=Shumoy |first2=Habtu |last3=Cissé |first3=Hama |last4=Parkouda |first4=Charles |last5=Nikiéma |first5=Fulbert |last6=Odetokun |first6=Ismail |last7=Traoré |first7=Yves |last8=Savadogo |first8=Aly |last9=Raes |first9=Katleen |date=December 2020 |title=Mapping the variability in physical, cooking, and nutritional properties of Zamnè, a wild food in Burkina Faso |journal=[[Food Research International]] |language=en |publication-date=2020 |volume=138 |issue=B |pages=109810 |doi=10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109810 |pmc=7575534 |pmid=33288185 }}</ref>
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