GARRI is a Nigerian food made out of cassava flour.The fermented cassava is subjected to sun-drying and milled in order to have 'lafun' flour. the Cassava is peeled, sliced, cleaned, dried and then blended into a flour, also called elubo. Lafun is a Fibrous powdery form of cassava similar to fufu in Nigeria.Elubo-Lafun is from Western Africa and eaten mostly by the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It could be served with a variety of ọbẹ (soups), such as ẹfọ, ilá, ewédú, ogbono or gbegiri (black-eyed beans soup).
Cassava flour contains resistant starches ranging from . 19-2.21% – with similar properties to that of soluble fiber.
Cassava flour has resistant starches positively benefit the health of the digestive tract, feed good bacteria, reduce inflammation and bloating