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Sitfubi

Soured milk thickened with cooked maize meal, eaten with a spoon

Eswatini Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

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Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

A traditional Swazi way of stretching milk with maize; it is served cold and treated as both drink and meal.

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What is Sitfubi?

Sitfubi is a cheese & dairy from Eswatini: soured milk thickened with cooked maize meal, eaten with a spoon. A traditional Swazi way of stretching milk with maize; it is served cold and treated as both drink and meal.

Made with

milkmaize

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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