Cocoyam also known as taro is a root vegetable cultivated for their corms as food. The leaves and petioles also serve as food. There are different species of cocoyam, the light purple corms, the white and the yellow corms. The most abundant is the light purple corm and the white corm. The yellow corm is …
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Cocoyam flour is used as a thickener in soups replacing the conventional method of preparing cocoyam for soup. The preparation of fresh cocoyam for soup can take some time Here is a brief run down of the process With cocoyam flour all these steps mentioned above is no longer needed and all you need to …
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a starchy root and plant tuber and not the same as sweet potato. It’s small, spherical with thin skin, the flesh is white or yellow. It is a vegetable. It belongs to the Solanaceae family the same as tomato, pepper and garden egg. Potatoes are a staple of many dishes across …
Turmeric is a herb that has been in use for various purposes for a long time. We are much more familiar with ginger than turmeric, They both belong to the same family Zingiberaceae, Later in this article we would be looking at the similarities and differences between turmeric and ginger. The botanical name of turmeric …
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Watermelon is a large fruit with a spherical shape. They are a special type of botanical berry referred to as Pepo. Its botanical or scientific name is Citrullus lanatus, they belong to the Citrullus genus and to the Cucurbitaceae family of plants, all watermelons belong to the same family and genus of plants. It’s related …
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Tiger nut flour is one of the products we get from tiger nuts other products are (tiger nut milk, tiger nut oil) Although it’s not a popular flour in recent times people are beginning to get aware about it. Description Unpeeled Tiger nut flour is brown in colour, while peeled flour is white or a …
A good alternative to dairy milk is plant-based milk, There are a good number of plant-based milk options; We have almond milk, rice milk, oat milk, tiger nut milk, coconut milk to mention a few. I want to talk about tiger nut milk in this article, one of the many alternatives. In Nigeria tiger nuts …
One of the wonderful products you can get from tiger nut tubers is tiger nut oil. Yes oil! Tiger nuts have a high level of oil that makes it possible to extract oil from it. And the good news is that the oil from tiger nut is healthy, it’s considered a good substitute for olive, …
I look like a nut but am actually a tuber what am I? TIGER NUT We begin a new series looking at tiger nuts In this series we’ll cover: I admonish you follow through the whole series, If you have anything on the subject you would like us to write about do share on the …
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In the previous article we looked at the Ugu leaf. Now in this article we’ll be looking at the Ugu seed, Ugu seed called Mkpuru Ugu and the pod called Ogbo Ugu in igbo, At the start of the growing process of the Ugu plant, The seed is nowhere in the picture aside the one …
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