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Nigerian food has a great variety as there exists a great number of ethnic groups in Nigeria. However with time, lot more new types food are becoming popular, making fast food is an important part of the food in Nigeria. The unity among the people in Nigeria influence them to have their meals together.
Food of Nigeria includes meat, vegetables, fruits as well as the carbohydrates. Meats consumed by the Nigerians are beef, chicken, mutton, lamb, turkey, geese, pigeon, fish, guinea fowls, crab, shrimp and other sea food. Fruits include bananas, oranges, tangerines, pineapples, carrots, guavas, watermelons, melons, grapes, limes, mangoes, apples, tomatoes, peas and a lot more.
As Nigeria culture is a combination of the cultural influences of many tribes, there comes the variation in the recipes. However, palm oil is the common factor in almost all the dishes. A few common Nigerian food are isu, which is basically spiced boiled yams, dodo, which is fried plantains, efo, which is green stew, iyan, which is pounded yams and jollof rice, Nigerian stew and Chinchin. Rice is the staple carbohydrate in the Nigerian food.
Other common Nigerian food are lentil, maze beens and cassava. The most important thing to note is that, the production of food items in Nigeria is so high that food items, which include vegetables, fruits and other processed food are exported to other countries.
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