Pure Pounded Yam Flour (Iyan) – 5 × 2 lb Bundle

Why five separate 2 lb bags instead of one big one

The bundle is ten pounds of pounded yam flour packed as five sealed 2 lb bags. You open one, and the other four stay closed until you need them. That is the whole appeal: you buy in quantity, yet the flour you are not using never meets kitchen air or steam. Each bag holds 900 g, roughly 7 cups, and about 7 servings if you allow 1 cup (around 125 g) per person, which makes about 36 servings across the bundle.

The flour is identical to the single 2 lb bag and the 10 lb bag: yam only, from Benue, with no preservatives. The 1pFoods name is on the label, and as with any brand, the name belongs to its owner.

How the free shipping threshold works

Orders below the equivalent of five 2 lb bags pay a flat shipping rate; from five up, shipping is free. A single 2 lb bag counts as one. The bundle counts as five, so it qualifies by itself, and so does the 10 lb bag. Delivery covers the lower 48 states and DC only. Your order ships within 24 to 48 hours and normally arrives within 2 to 5 business days, with no sales tax added.

That threshold is where a bundle earns its keep. If you have been ordering one or two bags at a time, add up the shipping across a few small orders and compare it with a single bundle order.

Reading a yam flour label: what is, and is not, in each bag

Yam flours are easy to confuse. Pounded yam flour comes from yam that is parboiled before it is dried and milled, which is why it turns into a pale, stretchy dough. Elubo, the flour for amala, gets gentler treatment, with little or no cooking before the yam is dried. The cut yam darkens as it sits and dries, so amala is brown and less stretchy than iyan, and the two flours are not substitutes.

Instant swallow flours sold as poundo vary. Some are all yam, and some add other starches such as potato or cassava, which is why the ingredient line matters more than the name on the front of the bag. In these bags it reads yam, and nothing else.

A sealed-bag rotation that keeps the flour fresh

Store the sealed bags together somewhere cool and dry, out of direct sun and not above the stove. Open one at a time, starting with the earliest best-before date, which is printed on every bag. Once a bag is open, squeeze the air out and close it after each use, and always scoop with a dry cup. Writing the opening date on the bag helps you remember which one is in use.

Because a bag is only about 7 cups, an opened bag is usually finished within a few dinners, so it spends far less time exposed to the kitchen than a big bag that takes months. If a bag has sat open for a long while, check for damp clumps, a musty smell or insects before you cook.

How long five bags last

At about 1 cup of flour per person per meal, 36 servings last as long as your table dictates.

Bigger appetites shorten these numbers. The best-before dates on the bags set the real limit, so if a household of two is looking at 18 weeks, cook the earliest-dated bag first and consider passing a bag or two to someone else.

Sharing or gifting a bundle

Five sealed bags divide cleanly. Two households can split it two and three, or three cooks can take a bag or two each, and every bag stays sealed until its owner opens it. Hand over the basics with the flour: roughly a cup of flour per person, boiling water at 1.25 to 1.5 times that volume, flour added gradually and folded into the dough, and the pack directions first. It is a useful present for a relative who has never made iyan from flour. The bundle arrives as one order, to an address in the lower 48 states or DC.

A soup rotation for the weeks ahead

Five bags invite variety. Start with egusi, the soup of ground melon seeds. Follow with efo riro, a Yoruba pot of leafy greens, peppers and palm oil, then okra soup. Oha soup, made with oha leaf, and ogbono, the draw soup from ground bush mango seed, come next. Ogbono is not in stock yet, so its page offers a Notify me form instead. Southern Nigerian kitchens also pair pounded yam with edikang ikong, cooked with waterleaf and ugu (fluted pumpkin) leaves. The swallow stays the same and the soup changes each week.

Bundle, 10 lb bag or a single bag?

The bundle and the 10 lb bag hold the same 4.5 kg and both ship free, so choose on how you store and share. Take the bundle for sealed bags, easy splitting and a slower pace. Take the 10 lb bag if you cook for crowds and want one scoop-and-go bag. The 2 lb bag remains the right first order for a cautious cook, and all three sit together in the pounded yam flour range. Subscribe and save on the product page is a reminder every 4 weeks with no automatic charge, so skipping one while the shelf is full costs nothing. For questions, email hello@afrifoodsbasket.com or use WhatsApp at (734) 219-0258.