Garri Recipe: Garri Choco-Balls As A Functional Food .

 Garri a staple food for a lot of people in the world.   Echbee Foods produces nutritious meals and snacks from yellow garri. The recipe today is the Echbee Garri Choco-Balls.

This nutritious recipe is a healthy substitute to sugar -packed cereals. The choco-balls made from yellow garri,cocoa powder and other ingredients show cases the functional status of garri.

What is a functional food? Functional foods are referred to as power / super foods based on the health benefits they provide and wellness they promote.Functional foods help fight diseases/ prevent diseases and boost immunity utilizing different methods depending on the nutrients it contain. 

   Benefits of functional foods.

  1) promotes gut health and enhance immune system. Garri as a functional food promotes gut health because of its fiber content, which also helps it absorb toxins from the digestive tract. Garri is a prebiotic, the fiber resists digestion but goes to the lower digestive tract and acts as food for probiotics thus promoting gut health. read more

Yellow garri is a functional food because aside from providing the essential nutrients for growth ,provides Vitamin A  as well  as fiber for health and wellness. The addition of cocoa powder increases the benefits making the garri choco-balls a super food.

Look at few benefits of cocoa powder: its rich in theobromine that helps reduce inflammation, protects from diseases such as diabetes,cancer and heart disease. Cocoa  is rich in phytonutrients but low in fat and sugar. Cocoa powder contains rich natural antioxidant, mopping up free radicals from the system.

Garri Choco-Balls. Can be eaten as a snack

Garri Choco-Balls. Can be eaten as a cereal.