The Bono Regional Office of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has organised a food bazaar to promote the consumption of local and traditional diets.

The event, held at the Cocoa Guest House in Sunyani was to commemorate the heritage month and showcased varieties of local foods.

Staff of the COCOBOD prepared diets including “Fufu,” match with light soup and catfish, “Akple” with hot pepper and fish, “Eba” matched with okro stew, and “Eba” matched with pepper and fish, “Banku” prepared with millet and soup, “Etor,” “Apaprensa” and plantain chips and other local diets.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), on the side-lines of the food bazaar, Ms Abigail Ferkaa, a Senior Human Resource Manager at the COCOBOD, said the event was to help whet the appetite and inspired staff of the Board to taste for local food.

“The event also seeks to provide a unique opportunity for the staff who have little or no idea in the preparation of local diets to also appreciate the rich diversity of the Ghanaian cuisine,” she stated.

“Interestingly our service personnel showed keen interest in the local diets, and we expose the, tp those foods,” hoping that the staff would develop the taste, appreciate, and consume the local diets.

Ms Rebecca Nkrumah Dadzie, a staff of the Board also told the GNA that local food had high nutritional value and urged young people to incorporate local foods into their daily menus, pointing out that “preference and taste for junk food is contributing to various health problems”.

“Consuming local dishes can help tackle some of the health complications because those local foods are very nutritional,” she stated.

Source : GNA