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26 Health benefits of ELEGEDE vegetables

 What is Elegede? 26 health benefits of Elegede (Efo Elegede), English Name for elegede It’s a fantastic rainy season, this cool weather,I haven’t been missing my afternoon nap. And on today’s session, we have this vegetable Tomato called SQUASH called elegede on Yoruba. Elegede vegetable is also used to make a special kind of delicious soup called Elegede soup. English Name for elegede – squash. Assignment: What is squash called in igbo language and Hausa language.. As it is our tradition let’s see it’s health benefits. 1. It helps reduce the risk of heart disease as it contains negligible fat and no cholesterol. 2. It Magnesium content makes it effective in the reduction of heart attack and stroke. 3. Elegede fruit helps prevent the build up of oxidized cholesterol in the walls of the blood vessels. It prevents artherosclerosis and heart diseases. 4. It’s folate content helps in removing unhealthy metabolism byproduct called Homocysteine. Elegede is very good in pregnancy and pre...