What is it?
Roasted Black Sesame Powder is made by roasting black sesame seeds and grinding them into a fine powder. Roasting gives the sesame a deeper, richer nutty aroma and flavour, while grinding makes it convenient to add to drinks, breakfast foods, and desserts.
Product Benefits
- Plant-based protein - contributes protein to everyday meals.
- Contains dietary fibre - supports normal digestive health and helps promote fullness.
- Rich in unsaturated fats - sesame seeds naturally contain mainly unsaturated fats.
- Provides important minerals - including calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, and manganese, although amounts vary by product.
- Contains antioxidants - including naturally occurring sesame lignans such as sesamin and sesamolin.
- Nutrient-dense - provides fats, protein, and minerals in a relatively small serving.
- Naturally plant-based - pure black sesame powder is suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets.
- Rich roasted flavour - adds a fragrant, nutty taste to both drinks and foods.
- Easy to use - can be mixed into oats, milk, yogurt, smoothies, desserts, and baked goods.
Ways to consume
- Mix with milk: Stir into warm or cold milk, soy milk, oat milk, or almond milk for a nutty drink.
- Add to overnight oats: Mix with oats, milk, chia seeds, and fruit for an easy breakfast.
- Mix into porridge: Add to oatmeal, rice porridge, or multigrain porridge.
- Blend into smoothies: Combine with banana, berries, yogurt, milk, or plant-based milk.
- Add to yogurt: Sprinkle or stir into plain or Greek yogurt.
- Spread on toast: Mix with honey, nut butter, or a little milk to create a black sesame spread.
- Pancakes & waffles: Mix into the batter for a rich, roasted sesame flavour.
- Baking: Add to bread, muffins, cookies, cakes, or buns.
- Desserts: Use in puddings, mochi, tang yuan, ice cream, or other Asian-style desserts.
- Dessert topping: Sprinkle over ice cream, yogurt bowls, or shaved ice.
- Sauces & dressings: Combine with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, or other ingredients for a savoury dressing.
Suitable for?
- 🌱 Vegetarians & vegans - naturally plant-based and provides plant protein, healthy fats, and minerals.
- 💪 Active individuals - a nutrient-dense addition to smoothies, oats, and breakfast meals.
- 🦴 People looking to increase mineral-rich foods - sesame naturally contains calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, and manganese.
- ❤️ People seeking healthy fats - black sesame seeds are naturally rich in unsaturated fats.
- 🌾 People wanting more fibre - provides dietary fibre that supports normal digestive health.
- 🛡️ People interested in antioxidant-rich foods - contains natural sesame lignans such as sesamin and sesamolin.
- 👩💼 Busy individuals - convenient to mix into milk, yogurt, smoothies, or overnight oats.
- 👨👩👧👦 Families - versatile for drinks, breakfast, baking, and desserts.
- 🍽️ People looking for greater food variety - adds a distinctive roasted, nutty flavour to both sweet and savoury foods.
- 🥣 Older adults - can be an easy-to-consume addition to soft foods such as porridge, yogurt, and drinks.