Welcome to our first article of the year as we take you through the latest fruit in town……… Popularly known as Agbalumo is a tasty local cherry with its succulent fleshy pulp and sweet seeds is a fruit most liked by many. You do not want to eat this fruit when it is…
Description Of Drill Monkey The drill monkey is also referred to as the old world monkey which is related to the baboon and more closely to the mandrills. The old world monkey is a English name given to the family of primates (A group that contains all species commonly related to Lemurs, Monkeys &…
I remember back then in school when a bowl of rice cannot be empty without dicing my bananas on it. Then I never knew the usefulness of what I consumed, all I knew was that it tastes nice and I needed to be full to keep me going for the day. Today we…
I’m pretty sure when seeing cows a lot of people would group them as both males and females. A common mistake which is usually overlooked most of the time. The name “cow” are termed to be females while a male cow is called a ox, bull, stieer under the family name “Cattle” and of…
I think one of the unanswered questions I had from childhood would be either ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ Or “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?’. The morning call you hear on the farm every morning is actually the rooster crowing “cock-a-doodle-doo”. The female is called a hen and she…
No doubt, Some of us who go into restaurants and tell the waitress ‘I want pounded yam with vegetable soup that has plenty assorted snail’. Yep I see you. Well today we are looking into snails. The animals remarkable for their impeccable speed WINK. Snail is a common name for gastropod molluscs that…
SOYBEAN We all must have heard the term soy sauce somewhere before Soybeans. Well today we are diving into the world of soybean. Soybean which goes by the scientific name Glycine max is a leguminous vegetable that grows in tropical and temperate climate. Soybean has been cultivated in China for thousands of years, and…
5 years ago my mother made a heart breaking decision to stop our processed sugar intake and replace it by honey. Well it might not sound like much to you but look at it from the aspect of people who had only been taking processed sugar up till that point, then you would understand…
Nigeria, West Africa is well blessed with varieties of food crops and carrots are no exception, carrot is largely cultivated in the Northern Nigeria. Major producing states are Plateau, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Jos. This crunchy delight is made up of 88% water, 4.7% sugar, 2.8% dietary fiber, 1% ash, 0.9% protein and 0.2% fat.…
I’m pretty sure everyone reading this article has had a taste of chocolate and if you haven’t I urge you to go get one right now! You may ask why? Well chocolates are super nice especially when you have low sugar count. If you want to know where all its deliciousness comes from or…
Did you know? Wrapping sliced fruits with rubber prevent brown coloration….. I bet you don’t know this. We are going to be diving into the world of elasticity and no way better than to use the the importance of “Rubber”. When people talk about “rubber”, they don’t usually specify what kind. There are…
Did you know that the kernel of corn comes in various colours? We eat corn at least once a year and haven’t asked ourselves what are the health benefit? or What makes it so special?. Well brace yourselves cause you are about to find out what this juicy grain has to offer. Maize commonly…
Pigs Feed Pigs are omnivores. This means they eat all kinds of things. To produce a well-balanced diet, a range of other ingredients should be included e.g (vegetables, fruit,meat meal, fishmeal, soybean meal, blood meal, tallow, minerals, vitamins, salt, limestone and vegetables). Farmers have to know a lot about pigs to make a healthy…
What is Papaya? Papaya, (Carica papaya), also called papaw or pawpaw, succulent fruit of a large plant of the family Caricaceae. Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico and neighboring Central America. Papaya is a small, bushy tree with a hollow trunk, large palmate leaves, and oblong smooth-skinned fruits…
Sometime ago, few friends came visiting on a Saturday evening, so we decided to hang out to cool off after a stressful week. As we discussed all along, a friend said “Apparently raw, cut onions absorbs bacteria, so should never slice an onion and eat it later because it’s chock full of bacteria that…
Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit. Mangoes have been named the most widely consumed fruit in the world. … While the skin color of mangoes can vary from green to red, yellow, or orange, the…
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