Ọsàn — Orange
Category: Fruits
Orange, a popular citrus fruit sold peeled and ready to eat by street vendors.
Vendors typically peel away the outer skin but leave the pith, so it's eaten by biting and sucking the juice rather than segmenting it like a Western-peeled orange.
Street-vendor oranges are typically peeled a specific way — the outer coloured skin is cut away but the white pith underneath is left on — so the fruit is eaten by biting and sucking the juice rather than pulling it apart into segments.
Ọsàn is sold year-round by roadside vendors across Yorùbá towns and cities, often from large piles or carts, making it one of the most common grab-and-go snack fruits in everyday Nigerian street food culture.
Example: Oníṣòwò náà tà ọsàn tí wọ́n ti bó fún wa. — "The vendor sold us peeled oranges."
Related words:
- Èso — Fruit
- Oníṣòwò — Vendor/trader