How My Wife Developed Frequent Headaches After Switching to Fresh Orange Juice, Yemi Osinbajo

Yemi Osinbajo said his wife, Dolapo, began suffering from unusual headaches after she made freshly squeezed orange juice part of her daily routine.

She had stopped drinking Coke, Fanta and other carbonated drinks years earlier, and considered a daily glass of fresh juice a healthier choice. When the headaches began, the family initially dismissed the juice as a possible cause because they viewed it as healthy.

After checking other foods and drinks, Dolapo sent a batch of the juice to a laboratory. Osinbajo said the results showed that the freshly squeezed juice was “not fit for human consumption.” He did not say what the laboratory found.

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not fit for human consumption

The former vice-president recounted the experience at the Open Day for Gardeners’ Seminar in Lagos on August 28. The event, themed “Leaving the Earth Better Than We Found It”, formed part of the fifth Open Day for Gardeners at the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Victoria Island. A video of his remarks later appeared on his YouTube channel.

Osinbajo also raised concerns about the treatment of fruit and vegetables. He said farmers use dangerous pesticides, while some sellers use chemicals to ripen or preserve produce. He specifically mentioned calcium carbide, which he said is frequently used to make bananas, mangoes, pawpaws and tomatoes change colour and appear ripe more quickly.

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Calcium carbide is used very frequently to force fruits, such as bananas, mangoes, pawpaws and tomatoes, to change colour very quickly, to look ripe very quickly