Palm wine is the sweet tasty sap gotten from wounded palm trees.
Anyone who has grown in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of
central and West Africa has come across palm wine. Palm wine is good for
our health, if only we drink pure palm wine. This is because
preservatives and sweeteners are added to it in order to extend its
shelf life, which makes it not good for our health.
When palm wine is tapped, it is fresh and sweet but in 24 hours, it
can become sharp and sour, and contain more alcohol than some of our
alcoholic drinks. This is because the palm wine undergoes fermentation.
Palm wine has benefits when consumed fresh or fermented, but the most
benefits are gotten when it is consumed fresh.
