Angola's Best Typical Dishes - Sustainable Eating

 Roasted peanuts, roasted plantain and roasted cassava in both main meals and desserts, it is above all a favorite snack in Angolan communities, especially on the streets.

Grilled Bombó (grilled cassava)

Bombó is the root of cassava, dried and fermented. It is mainly used to make funge (cassava porridge). Bombó can be grilled or fried and is often sold as a snack on the street, but is also an accompaniment to main meals. Furthermore, Cassava is the main source of carbohydrates in the country.

Cassava and peanuts sustain women's businesses on the streets of Luanda

Women know how to grow and produce cassava, which is why they are the real protagonists of the value chain. Thanks to their perseverance and determination, they are able to put their products on sale”. In addition, women sell and buy cassava to eat because it increases breast milk.

Cassava and peanut sellers on the streets of Luanda

Poverty and hunger

Due to extreme poverty few very vulnerable people look for food in the garbage and this harms the health of thousands of children.

If we look in more detail at the analysis carried out on food in Angola, we see that the factors that negatively influence the ranking are diverse: poor access to clean water, poor nutritional diversity, high food costs and high volatility in food prices.