FOUR UTURIANS FOOD THAT MAKE THEM STRONG IN EVERYTHING

 

FOUR UTURIANS FOOD THAT MAKE THEM STRONG IN EVERYTHING

In Uturu land today, food is also a major challenge for the people.  Nevertheless, from the beginning of their origin they are created strong or rather I would say, they inherited strength from their forefathers.

Uturians today believe that the type of food one eat contributed alot to the kind of strength he or she has. If you must work hard for survival, make sure you are eating strong food that can last in the body because strength of the body is also the strength of the mind.

Below are the four powerful food Uturu people don't play with:

1. FUFU (AKPU) 

Uturu people like fufu so much. Why like fufu? Because it is a strong food that last longer than any other food during performing hard works either farm work or building work. Such hard works include; mixing of concrete, clearing bushes for cultivation, tilling of hips and others unmentioned.

Fufu is gotten from cassava roots and one needs to pill it, washed it and put it into big bucket or butter for it preparation. After three to four days it becomes eatable once cooked.

To cook fufu as food, the preparation depends on individual method. It has many methods. Fufu can get damaged but there are also a way of preserving it from decaying.

In the time of making choices, out of hundred, nitty eight percent would choose fufu out of gari its substitute. This is not all about fufu. Fufu is relevant to several people in the world today. It can be preserved if cooked for weeks if not month. If eaten with nice soup, you can be as strong as stone.

2. YAM (JI)

Yam is another strong food in Uturu land. Yam due to its relevant is being celebrated as Uturu New Yam festival every year as a big ceremony around August to September down to October. As history tells, Uturians don't use to eat yam until they tested it with faithful Christians who lived at Onuzo community.

Yam can be prepared with beans and in many methods as food. You can prepare yam as; roosting, boiling, pounding it to form fufu kind of food and preparing it as pourage yam. It has its associate such as water yam, Coco yam, and unna as in my native language but non can be compared as yam itself.

Yam is as important as fufu in the body system and the cultivation start around February till  May. People also plant yam around June and July as late planting. If you plant late, you don't expect big harvest. 

Almost every tribe in Nigeria are cultivating yam in large quantities though the quantity depends on capital. Much capital investment, more harvest. Yam can be preserved up to a year without decaying. Though alots of it in the yam bane may decay.

3. PLANTAIN (UKAM)

Plantain is also a strong food in Uturu. But it a kind of food that one must mixed it with another type of food before it can become a strong food. The combination of plantain and beans as in pourage, the roosting combination with yam and other nutrition ingredients, the boiling plantain and it can be fried like yam and be eaten with pap or fried plantain with jellyoff rice.

So, plantain is a strong food for Uturu people. Though, you can't compare it with fufu or yam. Many people would choose fufu or yam out of plantain if presented as choice food.

It has been said that plantain has  more nutrition but I think it depends mostly on the ingredients one use in preparing it. Plantain can be eaten either when ripped or unripped.

4. BREADFRUIT (UKWA)

Ukwa is usually inherited as a planted tree from forefathers. Unlike other types of food I have mentioned above, they are all planted with season and time but, ukwa has been there as an inherited food. And it is very sweet if prepared very well.

To tell you how important is ukwa, it is only in a big man occasion can one see prepared ukwa served. Few individuals don't like it because they have not inherited it and know not about the food. While many more are falling in love with its taste.

Ukwa is very scarce to get because of its value in the chain of Uturu food distribution. There's no season for its to bear seed. This ukwa normally  grow as huge tree and can last on the soil more than four hundred years. It can only be cut down when a higher need arises. You can fry it and eat it with coconut. 

Sometimes, the choices of food depends solely on the individual. But as for me, I prefer the food I have listed above to be my best selected food in Uturu because they make me strong any time I eat any of them.

Published by:

Batholomew Obienyi

A Creative Writer and Motivational Speaker

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