Nut
Tiger nuts
Tiger nuts is a nut with no alcohol in it, used in 1 drink on this site.
Also calledChufa (Spain)
Tiger nuts 1.jpg by Adimora chidinma
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A large pile of dried tiger nut tubers, small wrinkled golden-brown nubs
Composition
Strengthnone
Densitynot carried
Sugarnot carried
Acid—
Energynot carried
Animal originNone
Allergensnone listed
FoodData Central carries no record for tiger nuts (Cyperus esculentus). Published analyses of the tuber disagree with each other by a wide margin (carbohydrate content alone is reported anywhere from about 46% to 64% across studies), too wide a spread to state a single figure as fact, so none is claimed here rather than picking a point in that range. The soaked, blended tubers are strained out and the sugar a finished horchata de chufa carries comes almost entirely from the sugar added at the end, which is on its own ingredient line.