Egusi Soup — Calories & Nutrition Facts

Ground melon seeds cooked with palm oil, peppers and leafy vegetables, usually with assorted meat and fish. The seeds thicken the soup and give it its grainy texture. Eaten with any swallow, most often pounded yam or eba. Also known as egusi.

A 150g ladle of Egusi Soup has about 323 calories, with 12g protein, 18g carbs and 24g fat. Most of its energy comes from fat — 64% fat, 21% carbs, 14% protein.