Benefits Of Okra Essay

Okra is a rich vegetable ideal for weight loss and it’s mainly use in making soup especially in Nigeria and it is eaten along with pudding food (food made from flour and doesn’t involve chewing but instant swallow and is traditionally eaten with fingers). Okra soup varies in texture depending on how you cook it and the type I have experience is thick and gummy which I believe inspirationally give rise to it alias name “lady finger”.

This nutritious vegetable pod when ripen for consumption is green, tender and immature. The African okra soup where the vegetable originated from is prepared by cutting into smaller pieces and it looks sticky while the American type is prepared in its whole form.

Okra soup is a healthy choice if you want to lose weight and be

Add the pepper, onions, and salt.

4. Boil for about 15 minutes.

5. Add the okra and stir well until well blended.

6. Add Maggi, crayfish, thyme, palm oil, stir and allow boiling for about 10 minutes.

7. Thus, it will be ready for serve.

You can eat okra soup with pudding food such as pounded yam (linked). Remember to apply portion control which involves your fist size. Others are amala (yam flour), eba (cassava flour), cabbage flour, millet and un-ripe plantain flour.

For weight loss, all the pudding foods above are an ideal choice only if you can eat your fist size and have it as lunch. It’s better you opt for low calorie and low glycemic score food such as un-ripe plantain flour, cabbage and millet flour if you can get them in the market or source for them whichever way. But in case you can’t, you can opt for other option such as the pounded yam and eat it with plenty of okra soup of about 2 to 3 ladles [linked].

This is how okra soup can be eaten as a weight loss food if you strictly follow the instruction. Thus, include okra soup in your already healthy meal plan or start creating one if you have. If you want to lose weight fast and better, enroll for this coaching program for flat belly and weight