With this comes fresh cream, fresh cheese, and fried plantains (or cooking plantain). Common ingredients include yams, sweet potato, cassava, onion, tomato, and plantain. Jackfruit, coconut, palm, areca and plantain trees were also known. Food staples include corn, rice, plantain, yams, beans and several meats. It is mainly made from boiled and mashed yam or plantain. Other crops grown for food include vegetables, melon, pineapples, mango, pepper, banana and plantain. It is used to kill unwanted weeds such as dandelions, plantain, clover, and chickweed. The most common foods include rice, plantain, beans, and varieties of cabbage and cheeses. Chicha made from sweet manioc, plantain, or banana is also common in the lowlands. In Nigeria, gizzard is either grilled or fried and served with stew and fried plantain. Plantago lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is accompanied with fried egg, cheese, and fried plantain or cooking plantain. Over 80% of rice harvest and all of banana, plantain, and manioc harvests were lost. Traditionally food is served on a plantain leaf or lotus leaf. It later added tree products such as plantain and banana.