Some years back, the little town of Igbo Ora, Oyo state, Nigeria came into limelight after it was discovered to be the ‘twin capital of the world’. Hardly could one get to a household at Igbo Ora without seeing a set of twins.
And what is the secret of this phenomenon?
The natives revealed it is their diet! The indigenes believe that a kind of okra leaves, locally known as ewe ilasa, is capable of making women who use it give birth to twins.
Eating it regularly over a period of time may help you to conceive twins if that’s what you dream about.
According to a native of Igbo Ora:
“Delivering twin babies is our industry here. We are the ones producing more twins than any other towns in Nigeria, and that is what our study reveals because of the symbolic reason that we prepare okra leaves as soup more than any other soup,”
He noted further that: “There is no man or woman in this town who does not know how to eat okra soup. We cook the leaves called ewe ilasa (ilasa leaves) more of which we consume than any other soup”
So ladies, you can give it a try. Who knows, you may just be the next ‘Mama twins’.
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