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Debby Paradize Foods

Name: Debby Paradize Foods
Address: Ait Road, Alagbado, Lagos, NG
Telephone: +2348035182865

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Fresh spices & healthy blends, prepared with care
Neatly packaged for homes & small businesses
Bulk & retail orders welcome
Nationwide delivery
Send a message to order 🤍Owner: Debby | Food Processor & Baker

30/10/2026

This week’s stock.

Spice blends
Jollof spice blend
Pepper soup spice blend
Multipurpose spice blend

Seeds and spice powders
Chia seeds
Flaxseeds
Black pepper (whole)
Turmeric powder
Garlic powder
Ginger powder
Coriander seeds
Rosemary
Fennel seeds

Flours
Unripe plantain flour
Tigernut powder
Yam flour

Dried proteins
Oven dried goat meat
Oven dried catfish

We deliver within Nigeria and ship abroad.
Send us a message with your location and what you need. We will confirm what is available and the price.

Debby Paradize Foods

28/10/2026

Why many cooks add black pepper when they cook with turmeric.

Turmeric has an active part called curcumin.
Black pepper has a compound called piperine.
Studies suggest piperine can help the body take in more curcumin.

So a small pinch of black pepper in a turmeric dish is a simple habit.
It also tastes good.

This is cooking information, not medical advice.

Ways to use them together:
In rice.
In stew.
In eggs.
In warm tea with ginger.

We have turmeric powder and whole black pepper. Send us a message to order.

Debby Paradize Foods

26/10/2026

Where you keep your spices matters more than you think.

Many people keep spices above or beside the stove.
It feels handy.
But heat and steam slowly take away the smell and taste.

Three simple habits help.

Keep them in a cool, dry cupboard away from the stove.

Close the pack or jar tightly after each use.

Use a dry spoon every time. Water in the pack spoils it.

Do this for one week and smell your spice again.

To order our spice blends, powders and seeds, send us a message. We deliver within Nigeria and ship abroad.

Debby Paradize Foods

10/10/2026

Most Nigerians are unknowingly eating less nutritious versions of their own traditional food. Here is why.

This is not about imported food versus Nigerian food.

This is about what has happened to Nigerian food itself.

Here is the specific problem.

Processing and preservation methods have changed.

Your grandmother's garlic powder was made from garlic.

The garlic powder in most Nigerian markets today often contains fillers, anti-caking agents and sometimes significant amounts of salt.

Same product name.

Completely different composition.

Your grandmother's dried fish was dried properly , low heat, long time, preserving the protein and omega-3 content.

Most commercially dried fish today is processed faster, at higher heat, which degrades the nutritional value significantly.

Your grandmother's spice blends were made from actual spices.

Most blended spice products today contain significant quantities of salt and monosodium glutamate with a smaller proportion of actual spice.

This is not a conspiracy.

It is commercial scaling.

But the result is that Nigerians are cooking with the names of traditional ingredients while actually using significantly diluted versions of them.

The nutritional benefit that your grandmother's cooking had , it was real.

The version many of us are cooking with today does not have it.

This is why sourcing matters.

This is why we check what is actually in the products we stock.

Real garlic powder.

Real turmeric.

Real spice blends without the padding.

Your food should taste like it is supposed to.

And nourish you the way it was always meant to.

DM us REAL to order spices that are actually what they say they are.

We ship within Nigeria and internationally. Debby Paradize Foods

07/10/2026

The reason your Nigerian food doesn't taste the way your mother's did has nothing to do with your cooking skill.

I am going to say this directly.

Most home cooks in Nigeria are genuinely skilled.

They know their recipes.

They cook with care.

They invest time in the kitchen.

But something always seems slightly off.

Not wrong.

Just not quite right.

And the reason , almost every single time , is the spice.

Specifically the freshness of it.

Here is what happens to a spice over time.

The volatile oils , the compounds responsible for the flavour, the aroma and most of the health benefits , begin degrading immediately after processing.

Heat exposure. Light. Air. Time.

All of these accelerate the degradation.

A spice blend that has been sitting in a supplier's warehouse for three months, then in a shop for two months, then in your kitchen for another month , has lost a significant portion of what made it powerful.

You are cooking correctly.

With the wrong ingredient.

Your mother's food tasted different because the spices she used were fresher.

Or she grew up in an era when food generally was.

This is not a skill problem.

It is a supply chain problem.

And it is why we are obsessive about freshness at Debby Paradize Foods.

Because your cooking skill deserves the right raw material.

DM us FRESH to see our current stock and order spices that actually smell the way they should. Debby Paradize Foods

05/10/2026

She told us our turmeric powder was the reason she finally believed Nigerian spices were worth buying online.

She had been sceptical.

She told us this honestly when she messaged.

She said she had ordered Nigerian spices online before.

From different sellers.

And they had arrived looking fine.

But when she opened them , flat.

No smell.

No vibrancy.

Just the vague shape of what they were supposed to be.

She had decided to try one more time.

She ordered our turmeric powder.

When it arrived she opened the seal.

She said the smell hit her before she had fully lifted the lid.

Vivid. Warm. Unmistakably real.

She cooked with it that evening.

She messaged us the next morning.

She said: "This is what turmeric is supposed to smell like. I forgot."

I forgot.

She had been using stale turmeric for so long that she had forgotten what fresh turmeric actually smelled like.

This is why we check every batch.

Why we don't stock months ahead.

Why we would rather delay an order than send something that has lost its power.

Your food deserves the real thing.

Not an approximation of it.

DM us TURMERIC to order. We ship within Nigeria and internationally.

Debby Paradize Foods

31/08/2026

We took a short break from posting. But we never stopped packing. Here is what happened while we were quiet.

If you noticed we were quieter than usual on this page recently , you were right.

We were heads down.

Packing orders.

Shipping to Lagos. To Abuja. To London.

The page was quiet.

The kitchen was not.

And we are back now , with fresh stock, fresh stories, and one thing we want to share before we get back into our regular posts.

A customer in Canada sent us a photo last week.

Her kitchen.

Our jollof spice blend open on the counter.

A pot of rice on the stove.

Steam rising.

She wrote three words underneath the photo.

"Still tastes right."

Still tastes right.

After the flight. After the customs check. After sitting in her kitchen in Canada.

Still right.

That is what we are here for.

Not just to ship products.

To ship the assurance that wherever your kitchen is , your food can still taste the way it is supposed to taste.

We are back.

Fresh stock is checked, packed and ready.

And we are very glad to be here.

DM us SHOP to see this week's full stock list and pricing. Nigeria delivery and international shipping available. Debby Paradize Foods

15/08/2026

We almost did not ship this week. Here is what happened , and why we are glad we pushed through.

It was a difficult week.

Without going into detail , some things happened behind the scenes that made the week feel heavy.

On Thursday morning I looked at the orders we needed to pack and for a moment I thought: maybe we delay by a day.

Then I thought about the customer in Atlanta who has been waiting for her pepper soup spice blend.

And the family in London who ordered oven dried goat meat for their father's birthday dinner this Sunday.

And the Lagos customer who asked us specifically to have her order ready by Saturday because she is cooking for her in-laws.

People are counting on us.

Not in a dramatic way.

Just in the quiet, ordinary way that people count on things they have come to rely on.

So we packed.

Carefully.

With the same attention we give every order.

Because the heavy weeks are not an excuse to give less.

If anything , they are a reminder of why we started.

This week's full fresh stock , packed with full attention:

🌶 Jollof spice blend
🍲 Pepper soup spice blend
🌿 Multipurpose spice blend
🫚 Ginger powder — fresh
🧡 Turmeric powder — pure
🧄 Garlic powder
⚫ Black pepper — whole
🌿 Coriander · Rosemary · Fennel
🌱 Chia seeds · Flaxseeds
🟡 Unripe plantain flour
🟤 Tigernut powder · Yam flour
🥩 Oven dried goat meat
🐟 Oven dried catfish

Nigeria delivery and international shipping available.

DM us SHOP or drop your order in the comments.

You can count on us.

Debby Paradize Foods

12/08/2026

Five Nigerian spices that doctors and nutritionists now recommend , that your grandmother was already using.

This is one of my favourite things to share.

Because it proves that Nigerian food wisdom has always been ahead of its time.

Here are five Nigerian spices that modern science has confirmed are genuinely powerful for your health.

ONE — TURMERIC
Contains curcumin , one of the most studied anti-inflammatory compounds in the world.

Reduces joint pain, supports brain health, improves mood. Your grandmother added it to rice and stew. She was right.

TWO — GINGER
Contains gingerols and shogaols. Supports digestion, reduces nausea, improves circulation, strengthens immunity.

Warm ginger water in the morning is not just a home remedy. It is medicine backed by decades of research.

THREE — BLACK PEPPER
Contains piperine — which on its own is mildly beneficial. But its most powerful role is increasing the absorption of other nutrients, especially curcumin, by up to 2,000 percent.

Adding black pepper to your turmeric dish is not just flavour. It is making the turmeric work harder inside your body.

FOUR — GARLIC
Contains allicin , a powerful antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory compound.

Supports heart health, reduces blood pressure, strengthens immunity. The fresher the garlic the more powerful the allicin.

FIVE — CORIANDER
Contains antioxidants that support liver function and help the body remove toxins.

Also shown to support blood sugar regulation. Widely used in Nigerian cooking with benefits most people do not know they are receiving.

All five are available at Debby Paradize Foods.

Your grandmother knew what she was doing.

Science just gave it a name.

Which of these five do you already use regularly?

Drop your answer in the comments. And DM us SPICES to order any of these fresh.

Debby Paradize Foods

10/08/2026

A customer called us last week and said something that stopped us completely. We want to share it.

She has been ordering from us for almost a year.

Jollof spice blend. Pepper soup spice. Turmeric. Ginger powder.

Regular orders. Dependable customer.

Last Tuesday she called , not to place an order , just to talk.

She said she had been meaning to call for a while.

She told us that her mother passed away eight months ago.

Her mother was a wonderful cook.

The family had been struggling since she passed , not just with the loss of her, but with the loss of her cooking.

The specific way things tasted in her kitchen.

The smell of her pepper soup on a Sunday evening.

The particular flavour of her jollof rice.

She said she had been trying to recreate her mother's recipes.

And that our spice blends were the first time anything had tasted close to right.

She said: "I made pepper soup last Sunday. My brother ate it and said , this tastes like Mummy's."

Then she said: "That was the best thing anyone has said to me in eight months."

We were quiet on the phone together for a moment.

We did not know what to say.

So we just said: "Thank you for telling us. We are so glad."

We carry this story with us every time we pack an order.

Because we never know which box is carrying more than just spices.

Some boxes are carrying someone home.

To everyone who uses our products to recreate the flavours of someone they love , we see you. DM us SHOP to order.

Every order matters to us. Debby Paradize Foods

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Ait Road, Alagbado
Lagos

Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00
Saturday	09:00 - 17:00

Telephone

+2348035182865

Website

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