ChiTola Farms rolls out Tiger Nut Flour as healthy sugar alternative

As Nigerians become more health conscious, especially with what they consume, ChiTola Farms on Thursday announced the entrance of its new classic and premium product, “Tiger Nut Flour’’.

The Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Ms Chioma Tolani Roberts, popularly known as Chi Tola, told the newsmen in Lagos that the product, ChiTi Tiger Nut Flour, was gluten free and healthy.

Roberts said that as it had become necessary to make agribusiness to thrive and become the mainstay of the country’s economy and a major foreign earner, value addition in agricultural produce was the only way to achieve that.

According to Roberts, for anyone who wishes to stay healthy, Tiger Nut flour was a sure way to do so because of its natural sugars that can also service the pastries and confectioneries sub-sector adequately.

“ChiTi Tiger Nuts Flour is made from carefully selected, proudly Nigerian grown Tiger Nuts, organically dried, milled and sieved into this premium product.

“Nigeria and entrepreneurs in Nigeria are blessed too. All we need to do is ‘think’ like entrepreneurs and on this new entrant; the Tiger Nut flour has an unequaled sweet taste, which we discovered is ideal for different uses.

“We believe in the benefits of this Tiger Nut Powder/Flour for health reasons, through various analyses from renowned researchers and institutions globally, it has been confirmed to be an alternative dietetics and it’s gluten free.

“And as a matter of fact, a positive alternative within the use of any type of flour,” she said.

She urged Nigerians to start considering the tiger nuts flour as source of fibre, it serves as good alternative to wheat flour and good for people who could not take gluten in their diets.

Roberts added that tiger-nut flour when mixed with other flour like maize could become very tasty and it is considered good flour and it does not lose any of its nutritional properties after the milling process.

She commended the President Buhari administration for supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the agriculture sector, noting: “So far, there are more and more youths daring to venture into agriculture and their creativity is beyond imagination.

“However, let me encouraged the Federal Government and tertiary institutions to do more in promoting agriculture that will give the youth the experience they need to propel themselves to be creative and consider agriculture as a choice of business,” she said.

ChiTola also told this media that the agriculture sector was a major employer of labour, hence, the needed support from government to drive value addition across all its sections.

A 150g pack of Chi Ti Tiger Nut Flour will be sold at N500; while the 1kg pack goes for N4,500.

Chi Tola is also into Mushroom cultivation and farm set up consultancy for those interested in venturing into mushroom cultivation and processing of other kinds of vegetables.