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HOW TO CREATE A NIGERIAN FOODSTUFF LIST FOR YOUR FOODSHOPPING

Nigerian foodstuff list

Here is the simple but detailed list of nigerian foodstuff to help you with your foodshopping. The list has been broken down into different categories. This food items are also available for sale on the Themarketfoodshop website. We hope this list makes your food shopping easier and faster.

GRAINS

  • White Rice ( Long grain / short grain / basmati )
  • Oloyin beans ( honey beans)
  • Olotu beans
  • White beans
  • Ofada rice
  • Wheat
  • Millet
  • Brown rice
  • Guinea corn
  • Maize
  • Quinoa
  • Peeled Beans ( dry)

FLOURS ( for swallow and baking)

  • Garri ( yellow, white and ijebu garri)
  • Yam flour ( elubo)
  • Cassava flour ( lafun)
  • Wheat flour
  • Plantain flour
  • Oat flour
  • Semolina / semovita
  • Rice flour
  • Poundo yam flour ( ayoola , ola ola …..)
  • Millet flour
  • Baking flour
  • Fufu flour

SOUP CONDIMENTS AND SPICES

  • Egusi
  • Ogbono
  • Crayfish
  • Stockfish
  • Cameroon pepper
  • Dry pepper
  • Iru / ogiri / dadawa
  • Achi
  • Banga spice
  • Curry
  • Thyme
  • Peppersoup spice
  • Suya spice
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Fish powder
  • Turmeric
  • Cinnamon
  • Cocoyam Powder
  • Ugba
  • Abacha

TUBERS

  • Irish potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Yams
  • Water yam
  • Plantain

SMOKED FISH

  • Smoked titus
  • Smoked catfish
  • Mangala fish
  • Smoked eja osan ( also known as asa fish)
  • Smoked eja kika ( also known a s smoked panla fish)
  • Smoked eja abo
  • Smoked eja apo
  • Shawa fish
  • Bonga fish
  • Red crayfish (oporo)

PROTEINS

  • Cow meat
  • Croaker fish
  • Tilapia fish
  • Titus fish
  • Hake fish
  • Frozen chicken
  • Frozen turkey ( fresh / roasted)
  • Cow kidney
  • Turkey gizzard
  • Ponmo ( Fresh and dry )
  • Cowleg
  • Cowtail
  • Live chicken ( old layers / broiler)
  • Goatmeat
  • Snails
  • Guinea fowl ( fresh / roasted)
  • Shaki
  • Abodi
  • Roundabout
  • Fuku

FRESH PEPPERS AND VEGETABLES

  • Tomatoes
  • Rodo
  • Tatashe
  • Bawa
  • Shombo
  • Ewedu
  • Okro
  • Tete ( green vegetable for efo riro)
  • Carrots
  • Sweet bell peppers
  • Green peas
  • Cabbage
  • Moi moi leaves
  • Spring onions
  • Onions ( red or dry )
  • Ugu leaves ( fresh / dry)
  • Waterleaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Scentleaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Bitterleaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Uziza leaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Utazi leaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Okazi or Afang leaf ( fresh/ dry)
  • Kale
  • Spinach
  • Celery
  • Mint
  • Parsley

Oils

  • Palm Oil
  • Coconut Oil
  • Groundnut Oil
  • Soya Oil

Snacks

  • Chin Chin
  • Groundnut
  • Plaintain Chips
  • Potato Chips
  • Gurundi
  • Kilishi
  • Kuli Kuli

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