Gari is a fine to coarse granular flour of varying texture made from cassava tubers.  It can be eaten as a snack in cold water on a very hot day, or cooked in hot water to make a dough-like meal called eba or gari to eat any of the African vegetable soups.

Cassave is a versatile root vegetable and can be transformed to produce varieties of food of which gari is just one. It is a major source of calories and carbs.it is also rich in fiber, thiamine, phosphorus, calcium and riboflavin.