Product Description

Yam is a popular starchy tuber enjoyed in most parts of the globe. It can be barbecued, roasted, fried, grilled boiled, grated or converted to flour for use in making yam dough meal locally known as “swallow“. Yam flour is the powdered starch made from the starchy tubers of the perennial herbaceous vines from the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae). It’s usually produced from any of the various cultivars of yam grown for consumption. There are many cultivars of yam although only six are important as staples in the tropics. The economically important species yam flour can be made from are Dioscorea rotundata (white yam), Dioscorea alata (yellow yam), Dioscorea bulbifera (aerial yam), Dioscorea esculenta (Chinese yam) and Dioscorea dumenterum (trifoliate yam). Once yam flour is made, it can be stored for a long period of time.