- NUTOGURT is a new frozen yogurt product made from a blend of low-fat yogurt and a milky extract of tigernut tubers. It is designed to be a low-fat alternative to ice cream while providing probiotic benefits.
- Tigernuts are a sedge family crop that are high in energy, minerals, vitamins and fiber. They are commonly used to make a milky beverage in Spain and Nigeria.
- NUTOGURT targets many customer groups due to its expected health benefits such as balancing stress levels, soft skin, improved digestion, reduced risk of colon cancer and heart disease, and being suitable for diabetics, the health conscious, and those with dairy
5. • Blend of fermented low fat yogurt and a milky
extract of tigernut tubers
• Based on a research carried out in Nigeria.
• “Preparation of kunnu from unexploited rich food
source: Cyperus esculentus”
Product Design
6.
7. • chufa sedge, tiger nut sedge, or earth almond
• Sedge family crop
• widespread much of the world
• Tubers: tigernuts
• Flavor- milky, nutty.
Cyperus esculentus
9. Tigernuts' sorting
Tigernuts's washing
Tigernuts' grinding
Tigernuts' sieving
Liquid content heating
Content Sweetening
Content bottling
Cooling/Pasteurization
Addition of extract
into yoghurt
Method of Kunno Preparation
10. • Low fat/fat free alternative to ice cream.
• Similar method of preparation as ice cream.
• Unique: Streptococcus
thermophilous and Lactobacillus bulgaricus
• Only 1% bacterial strains.
Frozen Yogurt
11. • Low fat yogurt
• Milky extract
• Active cultures of probiotics.
• Outcome: high nutritional Frozen Yogurt.
Nutogurt
12. • Balances the CNS and aids body in adaptation to stress.
• Vitamin E- softness and elasticity of skin, promotes fertility.
• Probiotics culture improves the digestion, minimizes allergic
reactions.
• Prevents constipation and minimizes the risk of colon cancer.
• Calcium intake reduces the risk of heart diseases. Also, lowers
the risk of hypertension.
Health Benefits
The grass produces a crop similar to peanuts that you can harvest from the roots tubers that store the plants nutrients which can be dried (right picture). Tigernuts have long been recognised for their health benefits as they are high in fibre, proteins, and natural sugars. They have a high content of soluble glucose and oleic acid. Along with a high energy content (starch, fats, sugars and proteins), they are rich in minerals such as phosphorous and potassium and in vitamins E and C. It is believed that they help to prevent heart attacks, thrombosis and cancer especially of the colon. Typically, 100g (0.27 lbs) tigernuts are 386 cal with 7% proteins, 26% fats (oils), 31% starch, 21% glucose. They contain 26% fibre of which 14% is non-soluble and 12% soluble and are naturally sweet.
It contains a huge quantity of vitamin B1 which balances the CNS and aids body in adaptation to stress.
The presence of Vitamin E enhances the softness and elasticity of skin, vanishes wrinkles and acne by delaying the process of cell aging. Vitamin E is necessary for both men and women.
The presence of probiotics culture improves the digestion, minimizes allergic reactions. Reduction in symptoms of imflammatory bowel disease have also been reported
Calcium is an important mineral of body, significantly present in nutogurt. It has been reported that the regular calcium intake reduces the risk of heart diseases. Also, lowers the risk of hypertension.