Gari or Tapioca or Rale, a roasted yellow or white granulated product found on market stalls
of sub‐Saharan African countries (SSA), is made from cassava through the successive steps …

Indigenous Fermented Foods for the Tropics provides insights on fermented foods of the
Tropics, particularly Africa, Asia and South America, highlighting key aspects and potential …

This chapter focuses on the fermented foods and beverages developed from tropical root
crops, microorganisms associated with fermentation processes and functional properties of …

Traditional roasting of cassava mash into gari continues to be an arduous and intricate unit
operation for processors. It is highly labor intensive, tedious, unhygienic, and productivity is …

Garri frying is the most critical unit operation in the processing of cassava into garri. The
quality of the final product is much dependent on this processing stage which is a …

This paper briefly discusses research and development activities in agricultural machinery
development in Nigeria placing emphasis on cassava tuber processing machines. Effort …

This paper highlights the design concept of a cassava mash roaster with the objectives of
obtaining minimal power requirement and optimum heat energy conservation. The designed …

ABSTRACT A continuous process power driven gari fryer was designed, fabricated and
tested at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi.(FIIRO), Lagos, to fry large …

Traditional frying of cassava mash into gari continues to be an onerous and complex unit
operation for food processors. It is highly labor intensive, tedious, unhygienic and low …

Roasting is one of the thermo-mechanical operation in cereals and oilseeds processing.
Low-capacity machine for mechanisation of roasting is necessary for small-scale …