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'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Melagros(op): 2:18pm On Nov 24, 2025
COMRADES, Today I went to NIMC office to do something, while still waiting for the officials to come and address us under a mango tree, this is what I captured this zobo/kunu seller doing
Is this Practice hygiene?

Melagros:
It is not a stage, this is NIMC PHC, I am the one in blue jeans, and that dust bin was right in front of me. The woman didn't know that I was capturing her
The boy in white by the left was together with his father and they bought the zobo drink, after drinking it, they dumped the bottles inside the dust bin; but in our very eyes the woman went and re picked the bottles
adamma24:
I believe you....in okokomaiko area of lagos state...people mostly those aboki guys pic plastic from dustbin both en and dirty ones then sell it to those women selling the kuni and zoo who on turn just rinse the plastic with just water and put the product s in those plastic for unsuspecting buyers....this is have seen and still saw it this morning....

Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by eepeepook(f): 2:22pm On Nov 24, 2025
Staged pictures. Mscheew.

Melagros:
COMRADES, Today I went to NIMC office to do something, while still waiting for the officials to come and address us under a mango tree, this is what I captured this zobo/kunu seller doing
Is this Practice hygiene?
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Nobody: 2:53pm On Nov 24, 2025
I didn’t see any sign of her selling kunu or Zobo undecided
It might as well be used for liquid soap and kerosine. She might also be a recycler.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Melagros(op): 3:37pm On Nov 24, 2025
eepeepook:
Staged pictures. Mscheew.
It is not a stage, this is NIMC PHC, I am the one in blue jeans, and that dust bin was right in front of me. The woman didn't know that I was capturing her
The boy in white by the left was together with his father and they bought the zobo drink, after drinking it, they dumped the bottles inside the dust bin; but in our very eyes the woman went and re picked the bottles
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by meobizy(f): 3:58pm On Nov 24, 2025
Fake story. Just another day on Nairaland.

Melagros:
It is not a stage, this is NIMC PHC, I am the one in blue jeans, and that dust bin was right in front of me. The woman didn't know that I was capturing her
The boy in white by the left was together with his father and they bought the zobo drink, after drinking it, they dumped the bottles inside the dust bin; but in our very eyes the woman went and re picked the bottles
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by yarimo(m): 10:31pm On Nov 24, 2025
Show us pictures of where she was selling zobo/kunu
Melagros:
COMRADES, Today I went to NIMC office to do something, while still waiting for the officials to come and address us under a mango tree, this is what I captured this zobo/kunu seller doing
Is this Practice hygiene?
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by CJStarz: 10:53pm On Nov 24, 2025
eepeepook:
Staged pictures. Mscheew.
Ur grammar sef no 'hygiene', sorry, HYGIENIC
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by adamma24: 7:27am On Nov 25, 2025
Melagros:
It is not a stage, this is NIMC PHC, I am the one in blue jeans, and that dust bin was right in front of me. The woman didn't know that I was capturing her
The boy in white by the left was together with his father and they bought the zobo drink, after drinking it, they dumped the bottles inside the dust bin; but in our very eyes the woman went and re picked the bottles
I believe you....in okokomaiko area of lagos state...people mostly those aboki guys pic plastic from dustbin both en and dirty ones then sell it to those women selling the kuni and zoo who on turn just rinse the plastic with just water and put the product s in those plastic for unsuspecting buyers....this is have seen and still saw it this morning....
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by SlavaUkraini:
Very Very Unhealthy...

it has turned the whole Zobo and Kunu drinking experience into a Mad Man Adventure..

Where you pick my next Zobo container from the waste bin as if I am a Mad Man ..

Me I nor Kolo ooo.... So I nor dey drink again.

Pootle:
something will kill a man.

na make you no suffer too much before you kpai important passs
Yes Bros .... Something must kill a man

But I nor go allow someone's madness and lack of packaging kill me
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Pootle: 6:11pm On Nov 25, 2025
something will kill a man.

na make you no suffer too much before you kpai important passs
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by SixSeven: 6:11pm On Nov 25, 2025
Sometimes, they don't know any better. Other times, this is the result of poverty or weak law enforcement. Poverty not just for money but because the brain is weak and can only make money no matter the means. It's just like going to the market and buying corn from a woman with a child. I have seen a woman in a buka wash her child's bum and did not wash that hand. She continued her cooking. All of una wey de chop for buka, I salute you 🫡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WchlbqNc5YU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GxmpiScgs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FcVwoYEjA
Weak enforcement because anything that is related to food is highly regulated because if a disease emerges, it becomes a public health concern if government cannot trace the source or prevent it. I am sure you have heard of people dying after eating amala or one soup. This topic is all about hygiene. If you love your health and life, be careful what gets into your body ❤️‍🩹

this young lady in the pic talks about it on her IG
They will serve you in dirty plates that look clean🤮🤢

Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by PulaPower:
This is not how Zobo/kunu sellers does there things..
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by ARISHEM:
I have been buying zobo for a long time and nothing do me. But as at now I have been personally preparing my zobo for safety reasons
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Checkwell: 6:16pm On Nov 25, 2025
Don't come here and talk rubbish. If you want to help her make her business better, you should approach her and offer the help.

You should keep this your childish reasoning aside. I really don't understand why some youths are so senseless.

Hand dey scratch you to snap and post. You can no longer use your brain and provide solutions.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 6:17pm On Nov 25, 2025
They actually wash those cans very well.
The likes of zobo, kunu, soya milk are in high demand especially to the low income earners because everyone cannot use 5h or 6h to buy Coca-Cola 60cl soft drinks products
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Deepspirituals: 6:19pm On Nov 25, 2025
CJStarz:
Ur grammar sef no 'hygiene', sorry, HYGIENIC
What is wrong with His Grammar?
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Nazgul: 6:19pm On Nov 25, 2025
I don’t drink those roadside drinks, cos I don’t trust how they’re made. The water they use is questionable, the bottles are usually picked from trash piles and road gutters, and many of them don’t even own refrigerators. They just buy ice blocks to keep everything cold temporarily.

So you can imagine what happens to the ones they don’t sell. Once the ice melts and there’s no refrigeration, that drink is already on its way to spoiling. No way I’m risking my health on that.

I honestly love zobo though. I used to have a babe back then who made it for me, and hers was the only one I trusted cos she makes it right in my kitchen. But ever since she and her family relocated to the East, I just stopped drinking zobo entirely.

As for kunu, I've never tasted it in my entire life.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by EmekaBlue(m): 6:19pm On Nov 25, 2025
Long i tasted original like young days rich kunu... Na water water dey everywhere now
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Wananonly: 6:20pm On Nov 25, 2025
If you ask her she would probably say 'relax bro, dirty no dey kill African man'
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by sonnie10: 6:21pm On Nov 25, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
They actually wash those cans very well.
The likes of zobo, kunu, soya milk are in high demand especially to the low income earners because everyone cannot use 5h or 6h to buy Coca-Cola 60cl soft drinks products
Those natural drinks are healthier, not just because of the money.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by TechBaron: 6:24pm On Nov 25, 2025
eepeepook:
Staged pictures. Mscheew.
Must you be a doubting Thomas in every conversation?
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by CJStarz: 6:26pm On Nov 25, 2025
Deepspirituals:
What is wrong with His Grammar?
Your own sef join, for capitalisation
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by safarifarms(m): 6:42pm On Nov 25, 2025
I see this a lot. Why say it's fake?
I watched a lady harvest some from the gutters. I've passed through a dump site and seen several young boys harvesting these bottles. They end up selling to those who sell palm oil, kunu/zobo etc. Over here I believe most people wash thoroughly, but I'm not sure its enough.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Emeka71(m): 6:50pm On Nov 25, 2025
eepeepook:
Staged pictures. Mscheew.
This is what we call recycling strategy.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by alklas(m): 6:56pm On Nov 25, 2025
She will recycle again for use nah cheesy
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by GenFunction: 7:03pm On Nov 25, 2025
This is why I don't consume road side zobo/kunu.
If I must do these drinks,I patronize sure plugs with content in a sealed bottle (na me go break the seal )
No be trust issues na hygiene.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by bixton(m): 7:20pm On Nov 25, 2025
Melagros:
COMRADES, Today I went to NIMC office to do something, while still waiting for the officials to come and address us under a mango tree, this is what I captured this zobo/kunu seller doing
Is this Practice hygiene?
Most people use plastic bottles picked from anywhere. Though one is not certain if they sterilize the reusable plastic bottles before usage again but then let your thoughts not bother you...
Many people soak those bottles in hot water, steam them and wash properly with liquid soap....

Some use a water mixture of salt and liquid soap to wash thorougly.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by chrisifeanyi: 7:27pm On Nov 25, 2025
I was in a hospital one day, a patient was using plastic bottle to pour spits instead of going to the toilet all the time. Later, one woman came to pack all the plastic bottles around including the one being use for spitting. She will probably use it to prepare zobo. I pity People that buy such unhealthy drinks.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Felaincarnated: 7:37pm On Nov 25, 2025
Calm down. Hot water dey do many tins
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Love800(m): 7:39pm On Nov 25, 2025
Christ!
I nearly vomited at the mention of the woman using her unwashed hands she use to wash bum(ass) to give customers food.
Hey, nawa.
SixSeven:
Sometimes, they don't know any better. Other times, this is the result of poverty or weak law enforcement. Poverty not just for money but because the brain is weak and can only make money no matter the means. It's just like going to the market and buying corn from a woman with a child. [b]I have seen a woman in a buka wash her child's bum and did not wash that hand. She continued her cooking. [/b]All of una wey de chop for buka, I salute you 🫡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WchlbqNc5YU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GxmpiScgs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FcVwoYEjA
Weak enforcement because anything that is related to food is highly regulated because if a disease emerges, it becomes a public health concern if government cannot trace the source or prevent it. I am sure you have heard of people dying after eating amala or one soup. This topic is all about hygiene. If you love your health and life, be careful what gets into your body ❤️‍🩹
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Love800(m): 7:49pm On Nov 25, 2025
So all those water-cans usually used in selling red-oil is gotten from gutter/dustbins!

Jesus! I will stop buying red-oil.
safarifarms:
I see this a lot. Why say it's fake?
I watched a lady harvest some from the gutters. I've passed through a dump site and seen several young boys harvesting these bottles. They end up selling to those who sell palm oil, kunu/zobo etc. Over here I believe most people wash thoroughly, but I'm not sure its enough.
Re: 'zobo/kunu' Drinkers; Is This Practice Healthy? (photos) by Love800(m): 7:51pm On Nov 25, 2025
My God!
Am dead!

What did i just read!
chrisifeanyi:
I was in a hospital one day, a patient was using plastic bottle to pour spits instead of going to the toilet all the time. Later, one woman came to pack all the plastic bottles around including the one being use for spitting. She will probably use it to prepare zobo. I pity People that buy such unhealthy drinks.
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