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UDA Seeds.

Also known as Negro or Ethiopian pepper (Botanical Name-Xylopia Aethiopica) known as Uda in the Igbo language or Eeru Alamo in the Yoruba language or Chimba in the Hausa language.

✔Let me know what you call it in your native dialect.

Uda is originally from Africa, South America and Brazil where it is categorized among the top lists of aromatic spices. Even though the Negro peppers are often confused with grains of paradise spice yet they are distinguished by their pungent peppery musky flavor. Every parts of

the Negro pepper plant such as the bark, seeds, stem, fruit, leaves are of great importance in folk medicine for therapeutic purposes. Furthermore, some parts of X. aethiopica can be combined with other plant parts for tackling many ailments and diseases. Researchers reveal that

the Negro pepper contains anti-oxidizing, calmative, laxative and antimicrobial properties.

Health Benefits 💯
1. Culinary purpose: it can be used to prepare pepper soup, yam porridge etc, (the tasteee 😮).
2. It can be used to treat coughs, flu and cold 😷.

3. It can serve as a Postpartum Herbal Tonic, It can be used in cooking soups for newborn mothers immediately after childbirth.This with other spices help to boost the healing and recovery process of wounds after delivery.
4. The essential oils of the Negro pepper can be used fo

r producing cosmetics such as creams, soaps, foaming liquid, perfumes and repellents.
5.Negro pepper is an excellent source of antioxidants, which are substances capable of removing free radicals and oxidizing agents in a living being. Due to the anti-oxidizing properties of

this spice, it can be used for preventing and destroying cancerous tumors.

What delicacies do you use uda seed to prepare?
Let me know in the comment section 😀.
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