It is a popular everyday food in West Africa. Its outstanding feature is that it can absorb a significant amount of water and swell several times.
This gluten-free ground meal of a special nature has many advantages: it has a high nutritional value, rich in minerals and dietary fibers. It also contains resistant starch. Resistant starch has similar physiological effects to dietary fiber, has a prebiotic effect, and most of it passes through the small intestine unchanged, is not absorbed, and thus does not raise blood sugar levels.