Why you should not put salt on Plantain

•Waste of salt

•Plantain is sweet without it

•Can raise your blood pressure

•Can harm your kidneys

And special mention to those who add the salt directly to the frying oil;

You are cultists.

Good morning. 

NEVER PUT SALT ON PLANTAIN TO FRY. Ripe plantain is sweet on its own already.

Frying a plantain to start with, rather than boiling it, gives you fats which can increase your blood pressure.

Now adding salt to the plantain and then frying it only worsens that risk to your heart. 

Ripe plantain is sweet on its own already.

Frying plantain gives you fats because of the oil used. These fats over time is bad for the heart and can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes.

Salt is known to also increase blood pressure.

I hope it makes sense now? 

So going on to fry plantain (rather than boil it) and then adding salt on top of that is quite risky and not advised.

Especially if it is a person who is already overweight, has high blood pressure problems or family members with it.

It’s not the best at all.

Cut out the salt. 

Especially when you consider that in many Nigerian foods we put a lot of salt and seasoning as additives,

As much as possible if there are unnecessary things we add in salt, it’s infinitely better from a medical point of view to just cut it out.

This is eventually good for you. 

I understand it’s tough and some of you are not used to it. But try it today. Make sure the plan