The first East African Food Festival was quite informal, and the dishes were very ordinary, with almost no innovation. However, the East African government's goal was more to promote awareness of food safety through this food festival.
This can be seen from the ingredients provided by the East African government, most of which were very common in East Africa.
At the same time, there were so-called "nutrition" experts educating the East African public, just like how Western capitalists "hyped" desserts. In East Africa, this led to experts saying that sugar intake must be moderate, and excessive sugar consumption might lead to a long list of diseases.
This went against the 19th-century worldwide media and interest groups' blind pursuit of sugar. In fact, the sugar crop industry in East Africa is not exaggerated compared to other countries at the same latitude, though it is foreseeable that East African sugar production could reach quite an exaggerated level in the future.
