What are the uses of cassava in Nigeria?

In Nigeria, almost all the cassava produced is used for human food consumption, and less than 5% is used in industries. The main food products of considerable domestic importance are garri and cassava flour. Cassava flour is a gluten-free flour made from the tuber cassava. It has a neutral taste, white color, and smooth texture, and can be used to prepare numerous dishes. It’s a great substitute for wheat and other flours. Garri is produced in powder form with fine granules, which made from processed cassava tuber. Garri can make for quite excellent and healthy dishes because it is rich in starch and has high fiber content, proteins and vitamins.

Garri and cassava flour processed from cassava tubers

With the improvement of people's requirements for food quality, modern automatic processing machines gradually replace manual production. Next you might ask, how do I use machine to produce garri and cassava flour? How to choose suitable cassava processing machine? This article will answer your questions in details.

How to process garri from cassava with machines?

Generally speaking, complete garri processing line mainly includes dry sieve, paddle washer, cassava peeler, cassava grater, hydraulic pressure, hammer crusher, garri fryer vibration sieve and packing machine. Of course, if you want to start a small-scale garri processing plant first, you can choose some of the above machines and replace the others with manual labor. [Recommended reading: What is the price of garri processing machine in Nigeria?]

In addition, you need to know the steps of processing garri from cassava tubers.

1.Cleaning and washing the cassava tubers

2. Cassava peeling

3. Grating cassava into mash/pulp

4. Put the cassava mash into bags or tanks for fermentation

5. Press to dewatering to get cassava mash cake

6. Breaking up the cakes and frying to get garri products

7. Garri sieving to get uniform fineness

8. Packing for sale

Compared with the traditional manual processing of garri, the modern garri processing line is expected to reduce the burden of the manual labor associated with making dry edible granules and increase productivity.

High efficiency garri processing machine from Henan Jinrui

How to process cassava flour from cassava with machines?

Cassava flour can be produced by using traditional dry processing method and wet processing method. For wet process cassava flour production line, it solves the disadvantages of low quality, high power consumption. [See also: Modified cassava flour processing machine]

Take an example of HENAN JINRUI’S cassava flour production line, it adopts the following processing sequence:

Cassava tubers-cleaning-washing-crushing-desanding-dewatering-drying-sieving-packaging.

According to the process, main cassava flour processing machine applied are dry sieve, paddle washer, cutting machine, rasper, desander, filter press, flash dryer, vibration sieve and automatic packaging machine.

New design cassava flour processing machine

How to choose suitable cassava processing machine?

There are many kinds of cassava processing machine in the market, but the quality varies. If you want to buy high quality cassava processing machine to ensure the economic benefits, then Henan Jinrui Food Engineering Co.,Ltd is the best choice for you. Here are the reasons why Henan Jinrui is your best choice!

Firstly, Henan Jinrui is a professional manufacturer and direct supply who has been engaged in cassava processing for 10+ years. Each cassava processing machine is carefully designed in combination with the latest technology, and is put into production after many trials to ensure the interests of customers.

Secondly, Henan Jinrui provides a series of considerate services. Firstly the preliminary proposal will be provided for your reference. And then based on your financial budget and technical request, adjustment will be made accordingly. The sales service scope of Henan Jinrui includes early stage design, equipment manufacturing, transportation arrangement, on-site installation guidance, commissioning and training and other after-sales service.

The above is a brief introduction to the uses of cassava, I hope it will help you. If you want to venture into a cassava processing business to process garri or cassava flour, Henan Jinrui is willing to serve you any time.