Health-Tips: Eating Healthy- Important Reasons Why You Should Eat Pepper Soup

There are different type of food (dishes) all over the world, among these foods is the “Pepper Soup” that is popularly eaten by the southern in Nigeria. While it is true that other places have their own type of pepper soup (or a pepper related food), in Nigeria there are different types of pepper soup but we shall focus on the type that is cooked by the Calabar tribe of Nigeria. As the name implies Pepper soup has Pepper as its main ingredient but most people that eat and enjoy this soup have little or no idea about its nutritious benefits. Please note that this post is not about how to prepare this type of soup but to let you know the nutritious benefit of eating this soup.

The Calabar tribe in Nigeria are well known for eating Dogs, so if you are thinking about eating a Calabar Pepper soup you might as well just keep it in mind that it’s definitely going to be a “Dog Pepper Soup”. Meat is known to have proteins and Dog meat is no exception and it has fats that the body needs. Below is overview of what is used to prepare a typical Calabar Pepper Soup.

Things you need to prepare Pepper Soup (Calabar)

 ·         Pepper: Without this it won’t be a pepper soup, so the importance of pepper cannot be over emphasized when planning to prepare a pepper soup (Calabar pepper soup inclusive).

·         Dog Meat: Practically, dog meat is like the official meat of the Calabar tribe. This means that a typical Calabar pepper soup has dog meat to go with it else it is not a typical Calabar pepper soup.

·         Water: It is obvious that pepper cannot mix with dog meat alone then you expect soup, so you definitely need water and this is true not only for the Calabar pepper soup but for any type of pepper soup.

·         Seasoning: For the sake of this article we are going to group the other ingredients under seasoning. The ingredients are: oil (in little quantity), salt, spices (varies from place to place) etc.

General Nutritious Benefits of Eating the Pepper Soup

•    Antioxidant Effect: Pepper has an ingredient known as the Capsaicin, this ingredient has many therapeutic uses such as its antioxidant effects that can help to prevent cancer.

•  Anti-Inflammatory: Another usefulness of Antioxidant Effect above is that, it can serve as Anti-Inflammatory that may help to reduce the pain of arthritis.

• Vitamins: Food nutritionist have confirm the presence of essential vitamins in Pepper (Hot Pepper precisely). Hot Peppers have the following important Vitamins: Vitamins A, Vitamins, and Vitamins B-6. (Note that Hot Pepper is also known to have side effects on health, so it’s advisable you talk to your health practitioner for advice before using hot pepper).

• Source of Good Protein: Pepper soup are mostly cooked with meats, cow meat, goat meat, dog meat etc. what is important is that these meats are good source of natural protein and the human body needs the protein, for continuous growth.