Dried cassava chips

Cassava Chips are non fermented cylindrically shaped products of about 3-5mm in diameter obtained from freshly harvested Cassava roots. They are now gaining prominence in Nigeria and all over the world as viable ingredient for compounding animal feeds for pigs, dairy cattle, poultry, fish etc. They are accepted because cassava is just like feed grains which consist almost entirely of starch and easy to digest. Many feeding experiments have shown that cassava provides good quality carbohydrates which may be substituted for maize or barley. It can not be used as sole feed stuff because of its deficiency in protein and vitamins; it must therefore be supplemented by other feeds that are rich in these elements. Cassava chips are also widely used for the production of ethanol which is gaining much currency as bio-fuel because of its safer and more ecological friendly qualities.