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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

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

Nope...

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

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.

We ust to hit it on the wall in our classroom b4 we eat..very sweet Gee

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.

No

E wan dey like ogbono fruit 🍓

I've never seen it in my entire life let alone eat it.

How come it's hardly found in the south?

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

Popular in North East

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? 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 . 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".

Yes,

So palatable

Nigeria is blessed just cursed with bad people

Ask Hausa people

What are the health benefits

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.

We de call am kwakwan bri.. for north. Ie coconut of monkey or baboon

I thought this was an over-riped African Star Apple Fruit (Agbalumo) at first!

Between... Never tasted or eaten it.

Be like we that didn't stay in the north should keep off. Never saw this in lagos btw

I am not too sure that l have eaten it

YES BUT IN THE DREAM 😁

Wetin be this laa

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

Yes, back then as a child in Katsina state.

Goruba

Ds are kinda fruit that made schooling in the north fun and lovely back den, before APC just come and scatter everything for Nigerians..

This must be kwa kwa mbiri... lol...hard nut to crack...Jtown dat year
#nostalgic

..i think say na agbalumo at first, until i see the name

I don't even know what it is

Doum palm, I currently have it. I use it to make herbal tea.