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Tiger Nut

Tiger nut is a small edible tuber eaten as a snack and used to make sweet plant-based drinks.

Tiger Nut — illustrative ingredient image

About Tiger Nut

Tiger nut is a small, wrinkled edible tuber produced by a grass-like plant, not a conventional tree nut. It has a brown exterior, a mildly sweet, earthy flavour, and a firm or chewy texture when dried. It is commonly sold whole in dried form.

Whole tiger nuts are eaten as a snack or soaked to soften them. Soaking changes their firmness and water content, making the tubers less rigid and altering their texture without changing the basic whole form.

Tiger nuts may also be ground and strained, or otherwise processed, to make a sweet drink. Milling leaves a fibrous solids portion that may be separated from the liquid, so whole, soaked, ground, and strained products differ in appearance and edible form.

Ingredient type
whole food

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English

Tiger Nut

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Tiger Nut nutrition & diet

Tiger Nut nutritional value

Reference: Tigernuts

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
403kcal
Protein
4.3g
Carbs
45.7g
Fat
23.8g

Official national food-composition reference. The displayed food form is part of the estimate; cultivar, recipe, brand, processing and preparation can change values.

Portions & preparation

Establish that the ingredient is the edible tiger nut tuber and specify whole, sliced, dried, soaked, ground, or milled form. Preparation changes texture and serving presentation. Separate plain tuber from sweetened drinks, flour mixtures, snacks, or coatings, which may add sugar, oil, dairy, cereal ingredients, or other components.

Compare the right form: Match edible tiger nut tubers in the identified whole, dried, soaked, ground, or drink form and its preparation details.

Diet considerations

Tiger nut is a plant-derived tuber, not a botanical tree nut by the catalogue description, but the exact product and formulation should still be established. Sweet drinks and snacks may contain sugar, dairy, cereal ingredients, oils, or coatings. Compatibility and carbohydrate pattern therefore depend on processing, recipe, and portion rather than the plain tuber alone.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Composition of foods integrated dataset (CoFID), 2021 — 14-848 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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