Tiger Nuts

[buckeye6976 0]

Has anyone ever eaten Tiger Nuts? What do they taste like? In fact any information about them. I was told that they are very healthy to eat and make a delicious drink???

[Jenn! 918]

Aren't tigers endangered?

[Shpat_Argjira 0]

You know what ####### tastes like?

Batteries and Sprite

[Ban Hammer 14,059]

You know what ####### tastes like?

Batteries and Sprite

Aren't tigers endangered?

and now you know why, someone is eating all their nuts!

[SMOKE 1,426]

i have a general rule on this...i'm not eating the testicles of any animal.

[Marilyn. 340]

Tiger nut, chufa, earth almond

Tiger nuts are fruits from a perennial which, like the potato plant, sends out underground runners. It is shunned as a weed in the majority of warm countries because of its creeping, rapidly expanding roots. It was the Arabs who brought this Cyprus grass plant from Africa to Southern Europe. It is now cultivated on only a small scale in North Africa and Spain, where it is esteemed for its nutritional content, as well as its nutty almond-like taste. These rhizomes are acorn-sized and chestnut brown to blackish-brown, with a wrinkled skin.

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Tiger Nuts

The tubers are edible, with a slightly sweet, nutty flavour, compared to the more bitter tasting tuber of the related Cyperus rotundus (Purple Nutsedge). They are quite hard and are generally soaked in water before they can be eaten. They have various uses; in particular, they are used in Spain to make horchata. They are sometimes known by their Spanish name, "chufa".

Tigernuts have excellent nutritional qualities with a fat composition similar to olives and a rich mineral content, especially phosphorus and potassium. Tigernuts are also gluten- and cholesterol-free, and have a very low sodium content. The oil of the tuber was found to contain 18% saturated (palmitic acid and stearic acid) and 82% unsaturated (oleic acid and linoleic acid) fatty acids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus

Edited August 14, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[almaty 19]

whoa..denutting the Tigers...terrible....i know that they should be doing better in the standings

[Marilyn. 340]

they don't look very appetizing

[Imua 0]

Tiger nut, chufa, earth almond

Tiger nuts are fruits from a perennial which, like the potato plant, sends out underground runners. It is shunned as a weed in the majority of warm countries because of its creeping, rapidly expanding roots. It was the Arabs who brought this Cyprus grass plant from Africa to Southern Europe. It is now cultivated on only a small scale in North Africa and Spain, where it is esteemed for its nutritional content, as well as its nutty almond-like taste. These rhizomes are acorn-sized and chestnut brown to blackish-brown, with a wrinkled skin.

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Tiger Nuts

The tubers are edible, with a slightly sweet, nutty flavour, compared to the more bitter tasting tuber of the related Cyperus rotundus (Purple Nutsedge). They are quite hard and are generally soaked in water before they can be eaten. They have various uses; in particular, they are used in Spain to make horchata. They are sometimes known by their Spanish name, "chufa".

Tigernuts have excellent nutritional qualities with a fat composition similar to olives and a rich mineral content, especially phosphorus and potassium. Tigernuts are also gluten- and cholesterol-free, and have a very low sodium content. The oil of the tuber was found to contain 18% saturated (palmitic acid and stearic acid) and 82% unsaturated (oleic acid and linoleic acid) fatty acids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus

whew, ok....

[almaty 19]

hmmm. i would have thought tigers would have had bigger nuts...

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Aren't tigers endangered?

on all except 3 (Java, Bali, Caspian--all extinct) subspecies

[Ban Hammer 14,059]

hmmm. i would have thought tigers would have had bigger nuts...

[eric&gen 0]

I have my nuts the size of elephants.

[buckeye6976 0]

I guess that I can understand the concern for the tiger testicles but why not the same concern for all of the Lobster balls being consumed????

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I guess that I can understand the concern for the tiger testicles but why not the same concern for all of the Lobster balls being consumed????

AFAIK, lobster's don't have IUCN status ranging between "critically endangered" (Siberian, Indian, Sumatran) and "endangered" (Corbett's, Malayan)