Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of Native African ethnic groups that comprises Nigeria.
[1][2] Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs with palm oil or groundnut oil to create deeply flavored sauces and soups.
[3] Nigerian feasts can be colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are in abundance and varied.
The brush-tailed porcupine and cane rats are the most popular bushmeat species in Nigeria.
[4][5][6][7] Tropical fruits such as watermelon, pineapple, coconut, banana, orange and mango are mostly consumed in Nigeria.