Market Snack · Ngali Nut

Ngali Nut

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Solomon Islanders have been eating ngali nuts for thousands of years — long before rice, tinned fish, or any other imported staple reached the islands.

Ngali nuts, the local name for canarium almonds, are cracked from a hard shell and dry-roasted between leaves in a motu oven or smoked over an open fire, then sold in small paper twists at Honiara Central Market.

Why it's made this way: Native canarium trees have been cultivated across the Solomons for generations, and the oily, rich kernel remains one of the country's most traditional snack foods and a minor cash crop for rural growers.

Roughly what's in it

210kcal

5gprotein

6gcarbs

19gfat

Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.

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