Farina / Garri is pan fried cassava flakes which is very popular in West Africa. Garri is usually eaten in 3 ways, 1. Soaked Garri Team A: as a cold 'beverage' with ice cold water and sugar plus or minus roasted groundnuts.
Cassava is a root vegetable that can be used in many of the same ways as potatoes. On the surface, this starchy tuber looks like a sweet potato or yam but with thicker skin.
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy fruit, and palm kernel oil which comes from crushing the kernel, or the stone in the middle of the fruit.
Rice is a seed. It is taken from the part of the plant that could grow into a new plant before processing. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa or O. glaberrima4. As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food.
The watermelon is a large fruit of a more or less spherical shape. It is usually eaten raw as table dessert. It has a sweet reddish or yellowish flesh. It is a very refreshing food that supplies very few calories. It also provides some vitamins and minerals.
Beans are a great source of fiber. Fiber helps keep you regular and seems to protect against heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and digestive illness.
Rice is a seed. It is taken from the part of the plant that could grow into a new plant before processing. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa or O. glaberrima4. As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food.
Corn is a tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) that is widely grown for its large elongated ears of starchy seeds. The seeds, which are also known as corn, are used as food for humans and livestock and as a source of biofuel and can be processed into a wide range of useful chemicals.
Palm kernel oil is a vegetable oil widely used in neonatal settings for skin care. It is a good emollient with a beneficial effect in moisturizing the skin and preventing transdermal heat and water loss.
