Mbika Egusi

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Egusi, also known as melon seed is widely used in the preparation of a number of african food dishes, including egusi soup, egusi pepper soup, okra and egusi vegetable soup, egusi fried vegetable. A very rich, but expensive vegetable oil is also produced from this seed. Egusi has very high nutritional value, it is rich in protein, fat and vitamins a, b1, b2 and c, It is made up of 30 – 40 % protein and about the same proportion of oil. The oil is cholesterol free. In terms of vitamins, it contains alpha-tocopherol, a component of vitamin e. It also contains palmitic, stearic, linoleic and oleic acids and very small amount of carbohydrate and calcium

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