Popular food consumed by Nigerians

Popular food consumed by Nigerians

Nigeria eat lots of carbohydrates, I mean lots of it. An average Nigerian consumed at least 80% of carbohydrates daily. Below I have put together the most popular food by consumption in Nigeria.

1.  Rice: This is the most popular food eaten by most Nigerian. No household goes without this food in a day, at least 80 percent of Nigerians eat rice once a day and 30 percent twice a day. Rice can be prepared in various form but the most common are white rice and jollof rice. White rice is usually taken with stew, other forms of rice include fried rice, coconut rice, tuwo, etc

2.  Garri/Cassava flakes: As a Nigerian you can never escape this food, some people call it poor man’s food but I tell you rich people can’t get enough of it. There is this saying that the difference between poor and rice man garri is that the former soak and wait for the garri to swell up before taking while the latter take the garri with milk, sugar, coconut and some other fancy stuff without waiting for it to swell up.

Garri as a food is a blessed to Nigeria and has been saving poor man since inception. Not only is it cheap (you can get it for as low as N10 per cup) but also easy to prepare; just add water and food is ready, no need to waste money on gas.

3.  Bread: This is another popular Nigerian food made from flour; it’s also cheap and can be eaten along with so many things. Beverages, butter, groundnut, fried fish, moi moi, beans cake, etc are some of the things you can take bread with.

4.  Amala/Eba/Akpu/pounded yam: This food are categorically called swallow. It’s called swallow because you don’t chew it, you swallow just like when you take medicine. This type of food is eaten with fingers (some called it fingers food) and is usually taken with soup such as okra, egusi, vegetables, ewedu, etc

5.  Yam: yam is also popular in Nigeria; the most common type is fried yam. It’s common because you can buy it on the street and eat to your satisfaction. Other forms of yam are boiled yam and pounded yam. Boiled yam can be eaten alone or taken with fried egg.

6. Beans: We all hate this food while growing up because we believe it makes us purge and fart, well it’s not far from the truth. Many adult like me still don’t like the food, what we love is its derivatives such as beans cake and moi-moi which can be taken with bread and pap. Beans can be taken with bread, rice, corn, plantain, etc

7.  Noodles/Spaghetti: I know some of you will say these are baby food but it will surprise you that adult also consume this food. It is popular and very easy to cook. It can be taken with egg, meat and chicken.

Which of the above food is your favorite and can’t get enough?

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