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Ogiri-igbo / ogiri-isi (fermented castor seed, Nigeria)ogiri igbo
Ogiri-igbo is a pungent soup seasoning from the Igbo of south-east Nigeria, made from castor-oil seeds. The dehulled seeds are boiled for hours, left wrapped in banana leaves for days, then ground with palm-bunch ash and wrapped in small portions. Raw castor seed holds ricin, a toxin that can kill. This page records the practice the sources describe and is not a recipe to follow.
Fully documentedOther4.3 days – 6.3 days
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedNo recipe is given here, because no source read shows a tested safe method. One phytochemical study used 1 kg of market-bought seed; no source read gives the ash amount, and the method is not standardised.
Dehulled castor seeds
Toxic raw; no source read gives a ricin result for the finished paste[ezekwe2020]
Total time across the recorded steps: 4.3 days – 6.3 days
Start
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What changes:The hulls are taken off the castor seeds
Step 1 of 5
Dehull the seeds
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Bacillus
Castor seeds are dehulled before cooking. Output: dehulled castor seeds.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Ogiri-igbo is a pungent soup seasoning from the Igbo of south-east Nigeria, made from castor-oil seeds. The dehulled seeds are boiled for hours, left wrapped in banana leaves for days, then ground with palm-bunch ash and wrapped in small portions. Raw castor seed holds ricin, a toxin that can kill. This page records the practice the sources describe and is not a recipe to follow. Made in 5 steps over 4.3 days – 6.3 days. The longest step, ferment the seeds still wrapped in the leaves, takes 4–6 days (Achi O.K. 2005) and runs at 30 °C (Achi O.K. 2005). Bacillus spp. does most of the fermenting.
Ogiri-igbo is made from castor seed, which is toxic raw, and the accounts boil it for 6-8 hours before the fermentation. Melon-seed ogiri is boiled only 2-3 hours.
Ogiri-egusiMade from melon seed, boiled 2-3 h, ground, and mixed with palm-bunch ash.
Ogiri-uguMade from fluted-pumpkin seed; 5 days at 30 °C in the review table.
Safety
Not for home practice. Raw castor seed holds ricin, a highly toxic lectin, and other toxic constituents. Reported poisonings, mostly accidental and some fatal, involved anything from a single seed to 30 seeds (Worbs 2011). The seeds are boiled for 6-8 hours and fermentation is used to reduce the toxic components, but no source read gives a ricin level for the finished condiment. In one small test, rats fed bought ogiri for 10 days had normal kidney and liver tissue, unlike rats fed raw seed (Adebayo 2019). That test did not measure ricin and does not show that a batch made this way is safe for people. Do not eat raw or lightly cooked castor seed.
Hazards the sources name: Ricin, a highly toxic lectin in castor seed, and the alkaloid ricinine (plant toxins, not microbes).
Ogiri is the name the Igbo of south-eastern Nigeria use for these condiments (Achi 2005). Ezekwe and colleagues (2020) call fermentation an age-long traditional way of making toxic foods edible, and describe ogiri-igbo as the fermented form of castor seed.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.