Toxic Sauce: Inside Nigerian Markets Where Vendors Mix Pepper With Red Dyes
Toxic Sauce: The Shocking Truth About What Nigerian Market Vendors Are Mixing Into Your Pepper, Tomatoes And Stew — And What It Is Doing To Your Body By Hotgist9ja Health Desk Think about the last time you ate jollof rice. Or pepper soup. Or that beautiful red stew your mother made on Sunday. Think about the deep, rich, vibrant red colour of the pepper and tomatoes — the colour that makes Nigerian food so appetising, so inviting, so unmistakably Nigerian. Now ask yourself this question: what if that colour is not natural? What if the beautiful red you have been eating — in your stew, your soup, your sauce — is not just pepper and tomatoes? What if it has been artificially enhanced with toxic industrial dyes that have no business being anywhere near your food? That is exactly what a disturbing investigation by Saturday Punch has uncovered — and the findings have sent shockwaves through Nigerian households, food safety circles and social media. Because this is not happe...