Tiger nuts are great for everyone who will make them a food to snack on.

Have you ever wondered why most persons from the northern part of Nigeria do not have trouble giving birth or having children?

If you have heard about Tiger Nuts, you may not have a knowledge of how much it contributes to making a person healthy enough to impregnate a woman. It is not fairy tales, but the health benefits contained here will help you understand.

What Are Tiger Nuts

Tiger nuts are one of the main foods planted by early humans, and it’s still a traditional food and source of nourishment till today. This nutrient-rich food grows just beneath the soil’s surface.

There are three categories of this nut. The brown tiger nut, yellow tiger nut, and the black tiger nut.

These three are always accessible in Nigeria but the brown tiger nuts are easily gotten outside Nigeria.

Amazingly, tiger nuts actually are not nuts in spite of having the word in the name; they fit into the class root vegetables called tubers.

In their natural state, they are crispy and solid, so most people usually leave them in water for some hours before eating.

Tiger Nuts Milk

A good way of adding the nut into your diet is by eating them as a healthy snack or by blending and extracting directly to make tiger nut milk. It serves as a healthy beverage or as a lactose-free alternative to dairy milk with a naturally sweet taste.

Where Do I find Tiger nuts?

You can easily see tiger nuts on the streets or local markets. You can also get them from online retailers. Some buy from Amazon and they have a great price.

What do Tiger Nuts Taste Like?

They have an exciting taste and texture. It has a nutty, sweet, gritty, and surprisingly familiar-taste like coconut. A bit hard to break down, so you must take your time to slowly savour their thick, creamy, nutty, simple flavour

5 Amazing Health Benefits of Eating Tiger Nuts

Rich in Fiber

Tiger nuts have an extremely rich supply of dietary fibre. More than 30% of a nut is made of fibre and that is more than oats, wheat and a good amount of vegetables.

We all need whole fibre to keep our digestive system in great working condition this, in turn, helps with the problem of constipation.

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Consuming this nuts regularly helps in weight loss particularly since the fibre found in tiger nuts is richer to those in other weight loss recommended foods such as whole grains.

Moreover, fibre increases satisfaction which makes a person eat less than they normally would.

Tiger Nut Milk Can Replace Cow Milk

Beneficial information for many people who are lactose intolerant, the milk gotten from tiger nuts is as pure as they come and can be substituted for cow milk without any of the adverse effects because it contains plenty of calcium and not lactose.

Tiger Nuts Are Rich In Vitamins And Minerals

They are high in minerals like potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, and magnesium, in addition to vitamins C and E.

Vitamin C is needed by the body to help with muscle and nerve function and for the proper functioning of the immune system while vitamin E is needed for a healthy glowing skin, to reduce wrinkles and early aging, it keeps the skin glowing and forever young. Magnesium in addition assists to control the heartbeat and normalise healthy blood pressure levels.

Protects Against Cardiovascular Disease

Tiger nuts contain oleic acid which is a rich source of omega-9 fatty acids, believed to give protection against cardiovascular disease by gradually increasing HDL (good cholesterol) and reducing LDL (bad cholesterol).

It Works As A Prebiotic

They are nut-free, soy-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, and grain-free!

Tiger nuts are also a great source of resistant starch prebiotics. Prebiotics functions by playing the role of an energy supplier for the positive gut bacteria that keep our entire digestive system running smoothly.

This can help to avoid any brief gas or bloating one could encounter otherwise. Consumed in right healthy doses, tiger nuts have also been known to alleviate suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal and diarrhoea, so one shouldn’t be too worried about brief bloating.

Summing up, Tiger nuts can be most beneficial for vegetarians and vegans, given their protein and iron properties.

Finding foods that contain both could be quite challenging, but tiger nuts provide sufficient protein as well as a high amount of dietary iron, including the vitamins that our body needs to absorb the iron efficiently.

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