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Maize, sorghum or millet grains are steeped for one to three days, wet-milled and sieved to remove bran, hulls and germ. The starch milk settles and sours for two to three days into a white sour cake, which is cooked into a thin porridge (pap) or a firm gel (eko, agidi). Made in 5 steps over 3 days – 6 days. The longest step, steep the whole grain, takes 24 h – 3 days (Haard N.F 1999) and runs at 25–29 °C (Omemu A.M 2018). Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, the main lactic acid producer and Yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida mycoderma, which add flavour; Rhodotorula do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceLaboratory batch of 1000 g maize steeped in water at 1:2 (w/v), from a 2018 Nigerian study that followed the traditional method. Households and micro-enterprises use no fixed amounts.
Total time across the recorded steps: 3 days – 6 days
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What changes:Whole maize steeps in water and starts to sour
Step 1 of 5
Steep the whole grain
Time
24 h – 3 days
Reported
Temperature
25–29 °C
Measured
Salt
None given
Acidity
pH 6.5 → 5.34
Measured
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Yeasts
Output: softened, slightly sour grain; the steep water is thrown away.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Ogi is a wet-sieved starch ferment. Unlike kenkey or mawè, which ferment the whole milled dough, ogi throws away the bran, hulls and germ and sours only the settled starch, which makes it very white and fine but loses protein.
Cold steepingGrain steeped in cold water for 3 days, with the water changed every day.
Fon method (Benin)Maize steeped in water at 85 °C for 24 h.
Goun method (Benin)Grain boiled about 10 min, then steeped 12–48 h at ambient temperature. It gives a very white, fine slurry and about 40 % protein loss.
Soy-ogiOgi enriched with 10 % soya flour, developed at FIIRO, Lagos.
DogikAn ogi product developed in Nigeria for its reported ability to help control diarrhoea in infants (Olukoya et al. 1994).
Safety
The sour pH keeps Enterobacteriaceae out of well-fermented ogi; none were found in Beninese commercial ogi at pH 3.3–3.7. Raw ogi can still carry a high microbial load, so it is boiled or mixed with boiling water before it is eaten, especially as a weaning food.
Hazards the sources name: Klebsiella oxytoca and Aspergillus flavus, isolated during maize–pigeon pea ogi fermentation.
Akinrele described ogi's microbes in 1970 and Odunfa showed in 1985 that L. plantarum leads the souring. In Benin, ogi is made mostly by micro-enterprises and eaten as agidi, koko porridge or akpan.