Category: Fruits
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Exploring Okro: Benefits, Meal Ideas, and Okra Water
What was your first introduction to Okra? Mine dates back to the childhood years, long before I knew that different meal options offered different health benefits. Back then, we assessed meals based on how they looked and tasted. Onions were a turnoff because the smell stuck to your tongue long after you ate it. Plantains…
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How to Eat Avocados and Why They’re Good For You
Avocados get a drumload of online hate, trumpeted by celebs and civilians alike. Hop on Reddit, the internet’s biggest forum, and you’d find entire threads dedicated to calling out avocados and people who eat them. This avocado name-calling often pivots on three wheels: one, that avocados are quick to spoil; two, that avocados carry a…
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Five Ways to Add Lettuce to Your Meals
Lettuce looks boring — you’d agree if you belong to the 90% of residents in Nigeria who don’t observe a healthy daily diet pattern that includes vegetables. And it’s not that you don’t like fruits and vegetables. After all, you grab a slice of pineapple or watermelon every other day. It’s that you, like many…
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What’s The Rave About Smoked Fish?
Smoked fishes are everywhere. They’re in all major markets across your favorite Nigerian cities — from the ever-bubbly Ketu and Mile 12 markets to the enchanting Sabon Gari market of Kano, to Anambra’s Main Market. They’re also in your community markets, sitting in piles on steel trays and weaved baskets, their earth-brown skin glimmering, inviting…
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Easy Homemade Smoothies for Nourished Health
Nutritionists recommend that you should eat at least two servings of fruits per day, whether as salads, snacks, or homemade smoothies. It’s not just for aesthetics. Frequent consumption of fruits (and vegetables) lowers your risk of numerous diseases. Fruits have high vitamins and mineral content, including vitamin C, folate, potassium, and sodium, all of which…
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How to Make Tasty Plantain Chips at Home
If you have friends over for a visit, set a plastic jar of plantain chips on the dining table, and the jar hasn’t been emptied by the time they’re ready to leave, then you know the plantain chips are subpar. Quality plantain chips don’t stay too long in the jar. The simple litmus test for…
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PricePally Impact Summit: A Defining Event for Nigeria’s Food Ecosystem
PricePally is excited to announce the PricePally Impact Summit, a game-changing event designed to enable actionable solutions to food accessibility challenges across the country. The two-day event themed “From Farm to Table: The Future of Fresh Foods – Sustainable, Affordable, and Accessible,” will gather policymakers, agritech leaders, farmers, food distributors, and other stakeholders in Nigeria’s…
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The Value of Bitter Leaf Soup in Nigerian Homes
If you rinse a handful of bitter leaves, say 100g of farm-fresh, mature bitter leaves, and squeeze out the liquid into a bowl, you’re extracting an estimated 11g of carbohydrates, 5g of proteins, 6g of fibres. The juice also contains essential components including vitamins A, C, folate, calcium, iron, potassium, alkaloids, and flavonoids. However, if…
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Five Things to Know About Eating Mangoes
Mangoes are in season. Shortly after the first rain of the year hit many Nigerian cities, baskets of mangoes started making their way into markets, supermarts, and your favorite online grocery stores like PricePally, to the delight of consumers. The anticipation of mangoes is a yearly affair in Nigeria because mangoes, like many other fruits,…
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Cost-saving Strategies for Bulk Grocery Shopping: A Guide for HoReCas
Food business owners in Nigeria face a varied list of challenges that affect business operations. The costs of bulk grocery shopping sits high on that list. But this isn’t a challenge peculiar to Nigerian entrepreneurs; research showed that more than half of food businesses (with over 10 employees) in the UK reported increased costs of…