By Nnamdi Bonny
It has become accepted like every other myth that garden egg fruits are of no nutritional value but that the nutrients are limited to their leaves. This myth may have thriven owing to the seemingly tasteless savour of the fruit and the scantiness of researches in the past. However, recent researches have yielded impressive results rebuffing this widely spread myth and giving a beacon of hope to the relegated status of garden eggs, scientifically referred to as Solanum specie, grown predominantly in tropical Africa has proven to possess reasonably high level of water which play key roles in the maintenance of body moisture. It also possesses a major phytochemical (plant chemical) known as flavonoid, which functions essentially as a free-radical scavenger, in other words an anti-ageing nutrient.
Most remarkable about the garden egg fruit is its fibre content which though in small amount accounts for the easing of constipation, i.e lightening the bowel.
In conclusion, it is therefore, imperative that the campaign for a rather valueless garden egg be relinquished as the newly discovered nutritive quality of the fruit exonerates it. PF
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