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Dangerous spices: How melted nylon additive keeps plantain chips crunchy

Dangerous spices: How melted nylon additive keeps plantain chips crunchy
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By Elizabet Adegbesan For some years, plantain chip has been one of Nigeria’s ultimate snacks which is affordable, accessible, and portable. But as inflation hovers at historic highs, a sinister economic survival tactic has crept into the informal food sector. Economy&Lifestyle discovered that to...

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