“…Pascual et al (2000), after describing its cultivation in Spain (Pascual et al, 1997), affirmed that these under-exploited products could enhance interest in this crop. More recent studies have reported increasing interest in chufa cultivation, mostly for food technology and biodiesel production, in Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Hungary, the Republic of Korea, Poland, Turkey, and the USA (Abdel-Nabey, 2001; Coskuner et al, 2002;Djomdi et al, 2007, Matos et al, 2008.…”