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REMARKABLE BENEFITS OF CASSAVA

Cassava Tubers Over the years, plants have remained an indispensable part of our lives. Yes, you can bet me on this because without plants, life will not be complete. Plants play essential role in the cycle of nature because life depends greatly on them, for example, plants provide us food, medicine, shelter, fragrance, clothing, flavours and fresh air. Being an integral source of food, photosyn

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Garri || How To Process Garri From Cassava Tubers (yucca)

Garri is classified as a starchy or carbohydrate food obtained from processing raw cassava or yucca. Here is a detailed post on how you can easily process garri from the comfort of your kitchen.

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Abacha Salad

Abacha salad is an African distinctive dish prepared basically from cassava tubers. This special salad is so irresistible due to their delicious, mouthwatering and aromatic taste. If you are in quest of a new type of dish or food recipe, then this salad is just a perfect dish for you.

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COCOYAM FLOUR || HOW TO MAKE COCOYAM FLOUR

Do you eat cocoyam? Do you make your own cocoyam flour or do you buy from the market? If you have some fresh cocoyam tubers, do you know how to process them into cocoyam flour? The truth is that you can produce your own cocoyam flour if you are willing to do so. Simply follow the detailed steps shown in this post or watch the video of how to make cocoyam flour included in this post.

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IMPORTANT THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YAM

From time immemorial, human beings have been reliant on several plants, roots and tubers mainly as a source of food and herbal remedy for tackling diseases. This has drawn them towards differentiating between the poisonous and the non-poisonous ones in other to identify the edible or non-edible ones. Moreover, roots and tubers are the major food crops especially in the tropical and subtropical reg

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HERE'S WHY YOU NEED TO EAT MORE TIGER NUTS

Presently, there has been some new developments and advancements towards the use of nutritious foods in alleviating the difficulties of malnutrition and short food supply, especially in the underdeveloped countries. Apart from the widely available food products, much attention has also been drawn towards underutilised crops as a means of boosting food supply, improving nutritional value and human

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YAM PORRIDGE

Yam porridge garnished with vegetables is a very palatable delicacy.

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BENEFITS OF PEANUTS (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA)

Peanuts botanically known as Arachis hypogaea belongs to the species of legume of the Fabaceae family (Feng et., al 2012). It is an annual plant growing approximately 30 to 50 cm tall which originated from Paraguay. They are known with other names such as ground nuts, monkey nuts or pygmy nuts.According to the Peanut Institute, peanuts are rich sources of vitamin E, niacin, copper, phosphorus magn

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YAY! UNBOXING CANON EOS 6D

 [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO9PNYEgs1U[/embed]I can now confidently say that I am amazingly excited that I will henceforth be using Canon EOS 6D for my food photography. I just unboxed the Canon EOS 6D Camera and I am ecstatic.Ooh la la I am mmmmmm................. as in seriously dancing!Ask me why?Well, because I am finally unboxing my Canon EOS 6d. Yes, Yes, Yes!Sorry that I a

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BENEFITS OF COCOYAM (TARO|COLOCASIA ESCULENTA)

Cocoyam possesses high nutritional values when compared with others like cassava and yam, with substantial vitamin, mineral and proteinous contents. As a relatively well-known staple crop in the underdeveloped and developing countries, it can serve as a weaning food and its leaves are sometimes used as vegetables for cooking.Cocoyam belongs to the family of Araceae and some species include Xanthos

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15 EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS OF MAIZE OR CORN

Due to the increasing awareness that is drawn towards the consumption of phytochemical compounds, the intake of maize has recently gained attention for studies. Maize is considered a healthy food because of its high constituent of phytochemicals and essential nutrients. Resistant starch from maize or high-amylose maize exhibits several health beneficial effects. Due to the numerous health benefits of maize, its inclusion in our daily diets is highly recommended. Moreover, the increasing population continues to increase the demand for more food production. Apart from satisfying the incessant demand for food, maize has been proven to meet up with both our nutritional, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, economic, medical and industrial demands.

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YAM PORRIDGE RECIPE

This yam porridge is definitely a winner yam porridge! It is very colourful, yummy and super-easy-to-prepare. Wow your tastebuds with some bites and you won't regret doing so.

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5-A-DAY AND ITS BENEFITS

How often do you eat fruit and vegetables? On a scale of 1 to 10, rate yourself.If your score is 10/10, then I wholeheartedly render a very big kudos to you.If your score is between 5 to 9, then you have done so well.If you score beneath 5, then you definitely need to wake up from your slumber right away.Yes, this serves as a clarion call to us all!!!It is still not late for you to start acknowled

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ROASTED YAM AND PALM OIL SAUCE || HOW TO ROAST YAM WITH CHARCOAL

Do you eat yam? If yes, what is your favourite yam recipe? Have you tried roasted yam and palm oil sauce? The Igbos highly revere a special festival known as the "Iri-ji festival" simply to commemorate "eating yam" especially the roasted yam. The aroma from the palm oil sauce complements the roasted yam so well that they both make a perfect pair for each other. Enjoy!

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OGIRI OKPEI (CASTOR SEED) - AN AROMATIC SEASONING TO SPICE-UP YOUR MEALS

Hi friends,Where do I just start from? Well, let me start by asking if you've ever eaten any tasteless meal? Yes I've had some unlucky occasions when I ate some tasteless meals and I have no doubts you too must have experienced such. Food tastelessness can be as a result of using the wrong ingredients or possibly using the right ingredients but with the wrong cooking methods. Whichever one still l

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LOW-CARB DIET.

Low carb diet is an eating plan which greatly minimises the consumption of high amount of carbohydrates to reduce the onset of obesity especially with overweight individuals. Within this plan, foods such as pasta, rice, white bread, yam and sugar are replaced with foods rich in protein contents such as fish, meat, egg, cheese etc.The area of research supporting low-carb diets has tremendously grow

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11 POWERFUL BENEFITS OF MUNG BEANS

Mung Beans Even though legumes are such a popular staple food, yet most of us are oblivious of the tremendous benefits this food class can offer to us. Besides, notwithstanding the increasing awareness to make this class of food a part of our daily diet, yet several people are still ignorant of what they stand to gain by simply eating legumes. It is very heartbreaking that certain individuals, e

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CHEESY BAKED POTATO CAKES

Eat some cheesy baked potato cakes to wow your taste-bud. Very easy-to-prepare, energy-packed, healthy and above all super delicious. Give it a try for a change!

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BENEFITS OF SWEET POTATOES (IPOMOEA BATATAS)

When you think of one of the major popular staple crops that is being consumed in almost every part of the world, then think of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). This is an important vegetable crop that plays distinctive role in both developing and developed countries due to its richness in nutrients, low input requirements and popularity. Sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the C

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15 ASTONISHING BENEFITS OF GARDEN CRESS (HALIM SEEDS)

You may have eaten garden cress in the past or you may not have even come across this small-but-mighty herb. Well, whichever category you fall into, just relax and read through the entire article as some top astonishing benefits of garden cress are unravelled. We oftentimes fail to understand the full composition of the everyday food we eat but in the actual sense, this shouldn't be the case. Unde

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