Growing up I didn’t like seeing sliced onions in my meal, I had two options either to eat it like that or secretly select it and dispose but as I grew older, I started to blend it so I won’t have to see it but enjoy the flavour. I know some people can resonate with this. Onions as a spice has others ways which we can add to our meal, if you belong to my group that don’t like seeing it in meal, it could added be in form of dry Onions flakes or Onions powder.


I don’t think that you can cook any meal without spice except on health grounds. The spice industry in Nigeria in the last two decades to me has not changed much. This is an industry that an entrepreneur can think outside the box and bring a lot of innovation into play.
However, foreign products have taken over 70% to 80% of the our supermarket shelves. Some even buy without knowing the ingredients in some of the foreign products, do we blame them, no. We are not innovative with the indigenous spices that we have, in processing and packaging. As it is say that that “nature abhor a vacuum” and the foreign products are filling up the vacuum.


Have you ever been curious to take a critical look at the ingredients in some foreign spice., I did and I found out that some have sugar and starch . For starch I could understand because it could either be used as a binder, stabilizer or thickener although some could use it to increase the product quantity, but for sugar in these age where people are health conscious. Do you see why you should get into the game ? This is the ones I know they maybe other preservative that could be addictive.


To take part in this 17.75 billion market , you don’t need to think like Elon Musk, just a bit of innovation, take what we have already and blend for example, take a bit of dry pepper , a bit of crayfish powder and onions powder and boom a recipe has been created and a brand has been brith. Spice can come in any of this form;


1. Seasoning cubes
2. Sachet form ( dry , crushed )
3. Fresh
4. Puree
5. Blend into a product , for example take egusi blend and add powdered crayfish,pepper and dehydrated onions and a bit of salt and boom you have a product . A unique Package to stand out.


You don’t need to start big you can start from the comfort of your kitchen, show and sell to friends and relatives, use the social media to promote and sell. As you gain traction and scale then meet NAFDAC to enter your next phase of growth, if you are in Nigeria.

Beautiful spice picture collection

Thanks

Wonderful thread, looking forward to start one day

ABG2222:
Wonderful thread, looking forward to start one day

Nice , just start and be unique the opportunities are numerous.