‘Everybody buys food. So if there's a problem with food prices then it becomes a major driver of food insecurity.’
For the past five years, Laudina Mills has been selling rice meals and a popular dish of boiled beans and fried plantain known as gorbe to a mixture of businessmen and students near Accra Technical University, but the skyrocketing costs of ingredients is costing he... read more
Food fraud is a challenge for many countries globally, and the African continent is not spared either. But in Ghana, researchers at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), are developing novel user-friendly ways of curbing it. Truly, it has become evident that from the least expensive products like salt to the most expensive commodity as saffron are likely to go through some form of food... read more
Foodborne diseases resulting from adulteration, contamination, mishandling and poor conditions under which food is prepared and served remains a public health threat in many countries and Ghana is no exception. Especially in an era where young Ghanaians aged between 15-45 years depend on street foods with males and single women dominating fast food sales points in u... read more
Ghanaians are crazy about waakye, a local dish prepared by cooking rice and beans with red sorghum leaves. The leaves add flavour and give waakye (pronounced waa-che) its distinctive reddish-brown colour. The leaves are also rich in antioxidants, which in turn can be good for human health.
But the health benefits of eating waakye are poorly... read more
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