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Corn with Cassava, Best Combo Ever

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Cut Cost With Homemade Semolina……. By Adetutu Adetule Semolina is a grainy powder that is milled from hard wheat (as durum wheat) and is often used to make pasta Durum wheat can be ground into semolina flour, which can be used to make bread, pasta, and porridge. Semolina flour may have Continue Reading

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Why You Need Mangoes, The ‘Love Fruit’

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By Olaitan Oye-Adeitan Succulent, flavorful, exotic, fleshy, nutritious, bright, oddly shaped, and tender are words that best describe a popular fruit found in many countries of the world including South-East Asia, East Africa, West Africa, and South America. When it’s ripe,  the flesh tastes so fresh, and sweet and emits an inviting fragrance. It Continue Reading

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Start Your Day by Refueling

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By Adetutu Adetule Breakfast, also called brunch, early meal and morning meal, the food prepared for a breakfast, is the first meal of the day, taken in the morning. Being the first meal of the day, the fast metabolism rate means your body will effortlessly break down food to release energy and utilize that energy […]Continue Reading

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Cinnamon: Life Saver or Harmful to Health?

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By Adebukola Aluko Do you know that high consumption of cinnamon is very dangerous to health?Cinnamon is a popular spice derived from the bark of several species of cinnamon trees including cinnamomum verum or ceylon cinnamon and cinnamomum aromaticum or cassia cinnamon. It has a warm, subtly spicy flavor and is commonly added to baked […]Continue Reading

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Relishing Nutrients of Eggplant

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By Titilayo Kupoliyi The eggplant is a nightshade vegetable, like potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. This versatile vegetable comes in a variety of colours and shapes, oval, long and slim, and melon-shaped eggplants with white, green, pink, orange, and even striped skin. It originally comes from India and Asia, where it still grows wild and Eggplants […]Continue Reading

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How Does Water Enter the Coconut?

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By Adebukola Aluko The Coconut tree is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term “coconut” or (archaic “cocoanut”) can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut. The name comes from the […]Continue Reading

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Managing Cholesterol Levels through Lifestyle (Cholesterol 2, Concluding Part)

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By Adebukola Aluko This is the concluding part of our discussion on cholesterol levels in the body, Harmful or beneficial? ( for Part 1, click here). Considering the factors responsible for a high lipid level, it is however important to sit down and think of what and what to do to address the problem. Before […]Continue Reading

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Boost That Mood With Food

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By Adebukola AlukoYour mood is the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you are in a good mood, you feel cheerful, however if you are in a bad mood, you feel angry and impatient. Your Productivity or how you relate with people is however dependent on your mood. Nevertheless, it is important […]Continue Reading

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Cholesterol: Harmful or Beneficial? (Part 1 )

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By Adebukola Aluko Knowing ones status is very vital in determining a healthy lifestyle; a regular or routine check will help address some inadequacies or excesses in our body. During a recent visit to the clinic, a young lady was asked to carry some test including her “Lipid Profile” and was told it was relatively […]Continue Reading

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What Meal of Escargot Fetches You                                  

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By Titilayo Kupoliyi Snail goes by the scientific name Gastropoda, a derivative from two Greek words meaning “stomach” and “foot”, a reference to the position of the foot below the gut. Gastropods belong to the Phylum of Mollusca, and in terms of the number of species, they are the largest class within the phylum. They […]Continue Reading

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Exploring Benefits of Locust Beans

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By Titilayo Kupoliyi Locust beans, an aromatic local seasoning widely used in preparing soups and stews across West Africa is scientifically known as Parkia biglobosa. It is called ‘iru‘ by Yoruba, ‘ogiri‘ by Igbo, and ‘dawa dawa’ by Hausa. It is also known as Irú or Eware among the Edo people of Nigeria. Locust beans is […]Continue Reading

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Relishing Nutrients Potato Leaf Offers

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By Titilayo Kupoliyi Potato leaf is one of the two major types of leaves that tomato plants exhibit. It has a smooth edge when compared with the serrated edge of the regular leaf. The shape is oval and may feature notches separating large lobes. It has a dark green colour. Examples of Potato leaf tomatoes […]Continue Reading

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Tapping Health Values of Soursop

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 By Adebukola Aluko When you see an oval green fruit with spikes on the outside, and a soft, white pulp on the inside, what comes to mind is the soursop fruit. Soursop is a member of the Annonaceae family, the fruits, which grow on trees, are large and oval-shaped. The green exterior, which has spines on […]Continue Reading

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Is Plantain Swallow Healthy?

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By Adetutu Adetule Spicy and Trendy Plantain is one of the good carbs you can eat and get away with. Not only is it a good source of energy and starch, but it also aids bowel movement. Plantain has lots of minerals and it is a good source of vitamins A, C, B6, etc. Yes, […]Continue Reading

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What Makes Avocado a Super Fruit?

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Spicy & Trendy By Taiwo Akinola The avocado, or Persea Americana, is a fruit that belongs to the family of Lauraceae; a group that also includes members such as cinnamon and laurel. There are dozens of varieties of avocado, ranging in size, colour and texture. All are native to tropical climates and, when harvested, the […]Continue Reading

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Yummy Way to Enjoy Yoghurt

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summer is upon us! Just like we are getting our summer body ready, we also love to prepare our snack. Let me introduce to you a yummy way to go enjoy Yoghurt. Today we would be making frozen yogurt bark which is the perfect summer treat. It can be topped with fresh berries, fresh fruits, […]Continue Reading

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What to Eat In This Hot Weather

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By Adebukola Aluko Welcome to this week’s edition of Nutrition Desk. A flashback to the last topic we were told to plan our meals and snacks to include nutrient-dense foods. Today we are going to discuss “Eating and Staying Healthy” during the dry/hot season. The dry season is generally attributed to a scorching hot day, warm or even […]Continue Reading

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Nutrition: Key to Health and Wealth

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By Adebukola Aluko Nutrition is the study of how foods and drinks affect our bodies with special regard to the essential nutrients necessary to support human health. It looks at the physiological and biochemical processes involved in nourishment and how substances in food provide energy or are converted into body tissues. An important part of […]Continue Reading