Ouch, I could've made a better title than that...
But anyway, I think most of you get what this post's about. Healthy Foods, in Nigeria. And here's where I throw the curve ball; even though we're in a country which you would expect for the foods to be healthy, a lot of them aren't. Let me clear that up: many of the vegetables in the market look like they're fresh from the farm and all that, and technically they are. BUT. The farmers had injected a whole bunch of crappy chemicals into them, inorganic pesticides and all that. The scary part is that most of the time, we don't really know what we're eating when we have a carrot. And a lot of Nigerians still wonder why there are strange outbreaks of cancer and other related diseases here. Now that's more than a little scary. Also, the foods that are imported from outside, like yogurt and things like that are usually full of things that are definitely not supposed to be ingested. Ewww. So, healthy foods in Nigeria is complicated, just like in...oh what's that place...oh yeah. America. But, don't get me wrong; there are still way more fruits and naturally growing vegetables that are eaten here than in most "Western countries." Like for example, we have a coconut tree in our yard which is regularly harvested by us, and there's the guava trees, and mango trees...actually, if you want the whole list, look up the post that I did on it using the search bar at the bottom of the site. But, long story short, there are bad foods which should be healthy, allegedly healthy foods which should be bad, and bad foods that are just bad. Hope I cleared that up for you!
Signing off,
The Traveler
But anyway, I think most of you get what this post's about. Healthy Foods, in Nigeria. And here's where I throw the curve ball; even though we're in a country which you would expect for the foods to be healthy, a lot of them aren't. Let me clear that up: many of the vegetables in the market look like they're fresh from the farm and all that, and technically they are. BUT. The farmers had injected a whole bunch of crappy chemicals into them, inorganic pesticides and all that. The scary part is that most of the time, we don't really know what we're eating when we have a carrot. And a lot of Nigerians still wonder why there are strange outbreaks of cancer and other related diseases here. Now that's more than a little scary. Also, the foods that are imported from outside, like yogurt and things like that are usually full of things that are definitely not supposed to be ingested. Ewww. So, healthy foods in Nigeria is complicated, just like in...oh what's that place...oh yeah. America. But, don't get me wrong; there are still way more fruits and naturally growing vegetables that are eaten here than in most "Western countries." Like for example, we have a coconut tree in our yard which is regularly harvested by us, and there's the guava trees, and mango trees...actually, if you want the whole list, look up the post that I did on it using the search bar at the bottom of the site. But, long story short, there are bad foods which should be healthy, allegedly healthy foods which should be bad, and bad foods that are just bad. Hope I cleared that up for you!
Signing off,
The Traveler
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