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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>WHEN you have a sore throat, maybe due to common cold, you allow these candies to melt in your mouth. They are not just sweet, they are also soothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s because we\u2019ve got measured amounts of wild mint, honey and lemon in there,\u201d said Joalane Mohale who produces these sweets at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Innovation Hub.<\/p>\n

With these sweets, you clear your sore throat, fever and a cough. The story starts in 2019 \u2014 in fact it starts earlier than that. \u201cThat\u2019s when my teammates and I were busy making and selling packaged teas out of various medicinal plants,\u201d Mohale said.<\/p>\n

Business was good. People just loved their teas. It is not surprising because the tea itself came in all kinds of versions. The ingredients ranged from corn silk, to olives and mint, from Artemisia (lengana), to eucalyptus (boleikomo) and numerous other plants.<\/p>\n

So people would come from all walks of life to tell them how the catalogue of teas they took to the markets was helping them. One would say they assist with a headache, another would cite period pains, another would mention fever, flu, sore throats, all kinds of ailments.<\/p>\n

It was something worth celebrating, with one exception. These people were almost always adults. There were simply no youths and children in the audience. It dawned on Mohale that perhaps their products were not reaching the broader market.<\/p>\n

What would they do?
\n\u201cWhen we sat down and thought hard about it, we came to a conclusion that the way we delivered these soothing plants were simply not in the interest of the young.
\nYou hardly ever see young people sitting down and enjoying a cup of tea. But we all know that they delight in munching sweets of all kinds.<\/p>\n

So what if they used the same stuff they were putting in tea in the sweets?
\nIt could be a brilliant idea. So she started. That was back in 2019. The making of sweets might sound easy.<\/p>\n

After all sweets are sweets, isn\u2019t it?
\nShe would soon learn what other seasoned manufacturers of anything have learned before her. That manufacturing, no matter what it is you are manufacturing, is hard.<\/p>\n

One experienced manufacturer likes to say \u201cwhat people don\u2019t seem to understand is that manufacturing is not so much about the product as it is about the process of making that product\u201d.<\/p>\n

The process, that\u2019s the hard part. But she tried it any way. \u201cI kept failing until I decided it was time to consult someone who was already in the business.
\nThe person consulted was ready to assist. She opened up about what sweets really were. She talked about different kinds of sweets and how each kind differed from another.<\/p>\n

She told her that only certain kinds of sweets would be suitable for the kind of stuff she wanted to do. She got back encouraged to try. \u201cYou won\u2019t believe it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with all that information, it would take another four months for me to be able to nail the sweets to my satisfaction.<\/p>\n

\u201d
\nIn the beginning, the sweets just collapsed a few days after being put together.<\/p>\n

When she fixed that, then came another problem. The sweets just went bad every two weeks or so. She kept her experiments alive until she was able to solve the problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I realised was the importance of accuracy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be extremely accurate with measurements.<\/p>\n

\u201d
\nYou get a small thing wrong, the whole system collapses. Among the ingredients in the sweets is a wild mint. Basotho are known to have depended on wild mint to fight cold since time immemorial.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany would put it in their nostrils in times of flu or other stuff and it was celebrated for its effectiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201d
\nScientists have noted that mints can soothe upset stomach and ease colds, flu, fever, headaches, and sinus congestion. Another candidate is honey\u2014that magic food.<\/p>\n

A CNN report says \u201cresearchers said honey was (found to be) more effective in relieving the symptoms of cold and flu-like illnesses than the usual commercial remedies\u201d.<\/p>\n

As if that was not enough already, she added lemon. Listen to what some scientists have to say about lemon: \u201cLemons are rich in vitamin C and flavonoids that work together against flu and cold infections\u201d. Well, with the three in one, you are ready to munch your way out of most annoying flus and colds.<\/p>\n

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