Garri
is a good food and even has more nutritional benefits than eating rice. Soups
made with palm oils and vegetables are the best to use with garri. Soaking and
drinking garri may not give you the balanced diet that you require, so
therefore, it is not advisable to drink gari alone. Soaking of gari in water is
not a sufficient meal and too much of this can have a health effect on your
vision.
Garri
is best taken in the busy hour of the day like in the afternoon to replenish
lost energy and to allow burning more energy. Diabetes sufferers should avoid
taking garri because it is a rich source of sugar for the body, but if they
still want to, they should just reduce the quantity of garri they consume.
Drinking gari during pregnancy is also frowned upon. Below are the health
effects of garri:
In
West Africa, most especially Nigeria, one very indispensable food is garri. The
food which is derived from cassava tubers is locally called “Garri” by many
Nigerian tribes and is pronounced as ‘garry’. Other names that it is called are
‘African or cassava flakes, gari, garry, or gali’. There are many health
benefits of cassava garri, and there are also effects of garri on health. The
English name of garri is always referred to as “Cassava flakes.”
Importance
of Garri
Because
of its affordability, garri is enjoyed by all. The rich and the poor all
consume garri. It is used to make “Eba” after mixing with hot water and taken
with soups. And because of its flaky nature when soaked in cold water, it is
popularly taken as a food drink in many households.
Though
drinking of garri is common among poor and average families (because the rich
could easily afford well-processed flakes made from corn), it is taken with
milk, sugar, suya (roasted meat), groundnut, kulikuli (snacks made from
groundnut), coconut, fried meat, fish (raw, cooked or fried), among others.
Garrihas plentiful benefits as and african food it increases vitality in its consumers. However,
taking too much of garri can have some serious health effects on health and
vision. Before discussing the effects of garri on health, take a look at the
many benefits.
Its
Benefits:
As
mentioned earlier, garri is a staple food, and mostly eaten in all of West
Africa. It is a food that every common man craves for, and it is locally
produced.
Garriis a grain-like food substance that is derived from drying and processing of starchyplant tuber, cassava. The major nutritional content of garri is carbohydrate.
It is a cheap and indigenous source of energy. Unlike rice and other expensive
food commodities that are eaten occasionally due to its price and availability,
garri is easily produced in small quantities for home consumption by families
most of whom engage in subsistence farming, or in larger quantities for sale.
Cassava
is used to produce two popular local food types called Garri and Akpu (or
Fufu). Akpu is a white food substance that has been prepared from cassava after
allowing for fermentation and later boiled for eating with soup. For Garri,
cassava is soaked and fermentation is allowed. Then it grounded, fried and
dried for storage purposes. Garri can be in yellow or white colour depending on
what type of palm oil was used to fry it. Yellow garri is said to be more
nutritious than white garri, since it is fried with palm oil which contains
vitamins like A and C.
Garri
can be taken on its own by soaking in water and drinking, but it could also be
mixed with hot water, and be eaten with soup to give a balanced diet, since it
is mostly an energy giving food and can help give energy to farm workers, busy
professionals, people recovering from malaria, and even used for recovery from
alcohol hangover.
Its
Effects:
1.
Eye Defects: Garri is made from cassava which is known to contain hydrocyanic
acid. Cyanide in garri, if contained in large quantity can lead to serious eye
defects. However, proper, safe, and thorough processing of the garri should
reduce the concentration of the acid to a considerate level.
2.
Where in excess, another drastic effect of Cyanide which is an organic acid in
nature is that it can lead to intestinal issues, and can worsen the situation
of an ulcer patient.
3.
Cassava which is the crop from which garri is derived from is rich in
carbohydrate. A cup of garri contains about 360 calories, out of which 99 per
cent is carbohydrate. Hence, consuming too much of garri can lead to excess
storage of carbs in the body and this can lead to unnecessary weight gain. So,
you know, garri is not good for weight loss.
With
these stated side effects of garri, you may be having a second thought on
consuming it. The major key here is the need to take caution so as to prevent
any negative health effects. As stated above, proper processing of the garri
can dramatically reduce the level of cyanide.
Hence,
it is advisable that you purchase your garri from trusted. Now that you know
the calories in drinking garri, moderate your overall consumption of garri.
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