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Mariangeles(f): 3:04pm On Aug 16, 2024
I saw these on a Nigerian food blogger's page, and it caught my attention. I had never seen them before.
She called them goruba, so I got curious, and had to go check it out on Google.

Have you ever seen/eaten these?
If you have, what do you call them in your local dialect?


Picture credit: Google

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Manigie: 3:15pm On Aug 16, 2024
I ate this thing as a kid in Kaduna.... You eat the flesh but can't eat the big seed in it ..... this fleshy part covers the big round seed in it ....
I was filled with nostalgia when I saw it in Keffi this year, had to rush it just to think of old times

Omo, your teeth must be strong to bite some of the goruba because it's strong....

It's mostly common in the Northern part of the country

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Sonnobax15(m): 3:23pm On Aug 16, 2024
lipsrsealed
Nope...

How come I didn't see this fruit all through my stay in the north ? angry

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We4all: 3:40pm On Aug 16, 2024
I have never tasted it, and had concluded it was a wild fruit. But futher research proved me otherwise, and I just realized it's "gingerbread or doum fruit" which is quite popular.

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davis51(m): 3:48pm On Aug 16, 2024
We ust to hit it on the wall in our classroom b4 we eat..very sweet Gee

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elpochas: 4:02pm On Aug 16, 2024
I Ate it in 90s when I was in Primary School in Zaria.u eat the back and Throwaway the seed.The seed is as hard as a Stone.

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Michael547(m): 4:10pm On Aug 16, 2024
No

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Ejiakusmith(m): 4:10pm On Aug 16, 2024
E wan dey like ogbono fruit 🍓

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Nazgul: 4:11pm On Aug 16, 2024
I've never seen it in my entire life let alone eat it.

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Mariangeles(f): 4:11pm On Aug 16, 2024
How come it's hardly found in the south? undecided
noble2faith(m): 4:11pm On Aug 16, 2024
cheesy

I ate it when I was in the north. This thing is the best way to literally describe "hard nut to crack"

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Typing: 4:11pm On Aug 16, 2024
Popular in North East

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Softmirror: 4:11pm On Aug 16, 2024
Reminds me of a joke about two friends who are lorry drivers. Both had set out on a journey.

Along their way, the friend who left earlier was crossed by armed robbers who asked him what he was carrying? grin He answered "Sugar cane". To their dismay, they robbers decided to punish him. He was told to start eating the sugar cane in his lorry grin. That he would be made to eat them all.
He then bursted into laughter. Lol 😂😂😂😂.
The robbers asked him, "why are you laughing". He responded "my friend is on his way with a lorry loaded with Goruba". grin

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MoneyTools: 4:12pm On Aug 16, 2024
Yes,

So palatable
KingOfTheDamned: 4:12pm On Aug 16, 2024
Nigeria is blessed just cursed with bad people

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Ustec: 4:13pm On Aug 16, 2024
lipsrsealed
Ladiesdoctor(m): 4:13pm On Aug 16, 2024
Ask Hausa people

What are the health benefits
Hemanwel(m): 4:13pm On Aug 16, 2024
Nigeria is blessed with wonderful resources, walahi! Safe for clueless and directionless leaders, we would have been shoulder high among the comity of nations. Bad leadership is a plaque in this country.

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piagetskinner(m): 4:13pm On Aug 16, 2024
We de call am kwakwan bri.. for north. Ie coconut of monkey or baboon

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CAPITALBEE: 4:13pm On Aug 16, 2024
I thought this was an over-riped African Star Apple Fruit (Agbalumo) at first!

Between... Never tasted or eaten it.
Switinthemiddle(m): 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
Be like we that didn't stay in the north should keep off. Never saw this in lagos btw

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AngelicBeing: 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
I am not too sure that l have eaten it cheesy

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Tayorshd87(m): 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
YES BUT IN THE DREAM 😁
YeyeGbami: 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
Wetin be this laa
Austema(m): 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
Yes, in Igala it's called Ojé uchu, meaning Pounded yam, because of the similarities between the fruit and pounded yam in texture and in colour.

This is the season

Through back friday

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ObiaboAdoka(m): 4:14pm On Aug 16, 2024
Yes, back then as a child in Katsina state.

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Gotocourt: 4:15pm On Aug 16, 2024
Goruba tongue

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kennyz247(m): 4:16pm On Aug 16, 2024
Ds are kinda fruit that made schooling in the north fun and lovely back den, before APC just come and scatter everything for Nigerians..

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Skanas(m): 4:16pm On Aug 16, 2024
This must be kwa kwa mbiri... smiley lol...hard nut to crack...Jtown dat year
#nostalgic

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Reelmii: 4:18pm On Aug 16, 2024
..i think say na agbalumo at first, until i see the name

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AfeezShomorin(m): 4:18pm On Aug 16, 2024
I don't even know what it is

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Kutunban: 4:19pm On Aug 16, 2024
Doum palm, I currently have it. I use it to make herbal tea.

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