Why Kenya’s forgotten indigenous vegetables are proving a culinary hit

Basillioh Rukanga

BBC News, Nairobi

AFP/Getty Images The hands of a chef pluck green mrenda (jute mallow) leaves from stalks and lets them fall into a white bowl underneath.AFP/Getty Images

Mrenda, being prepared here by a chef in Nairobi, has many more micronutrients than cabbage

Once dismissed as wild weeds and a “poor man’s food”, indigenous leafy vegetables in Kenya are now…

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