Renamy Sesame Nigeria supplies natural white, brown, Sortex-cleaned and hulled sesame seeds in full container loads — machine-cleaned to contract purity, laboratory-tested for every shipment, graded by the Federal Produce Inspection Service and shipped from Lagos with complete export documentation.
Renamy Sesame Nigeria connects the farming communities of Nigeria's sesame belt with food processors, oil crushers and traders who need dependable quality, container after container.
We manage the stages that decide whether a sesame shipment performs: buying properly dried seed from known farmer groups and aggregators, cleaning and colour-sorting it to the purity in your contract, sampling every lot for laboratory analysis, bagging in new PP bags, and preparing the documentation that FPIS, quarantine, customs, your bank and your border authority require. Our customers deal with one accountable team from enquiry to bill of lading.
Four ways to buy Nigerian sesame — matched to the needs of bakery and tahini manufacturers, oil crushers, premium Asian importers and ingredient distributors.
Food Grade
Nigeria's flagship food-grade sesame: naturally whitish-cream seeds from the Benue–Nasarawa belt, machine-cleaned to high purity and low moisture for bakery toppings, confectionery, tahini and direct food use.
Oil Crushing
High-oil brown and mixed-colour sesame from Nigeria's northern belt — Kano, Jigawa, Katsina and Gombe — supplied in volume to oil crushers, refiners and traders who buy on oil content and price rather than colour.
Premium
Our top specification: natural white sesame passed through gravity separation and optical colour sorting to 99.5% purity or better, with uniform colour and virtually no foreign matter — prepared for Japanese, Korean, EU and premium Middle Eastern buyers.
Processed
Dehulled Nigerian white sesame — the outer hull removed to give a pearl-white, mild-tasting seed with very low bitterness and oxalate — for bakery toppings, tahini, hummus and ready-to-eat applications where appearance and flavour matter most.
Nigeria is one of the world's largest sesame origins. The difference between a good shipment and a rejected container is in how the seed is dried, cleaned, tested and documented.
Whitish food-grade seed from the Benue–Nasarawa belt and high-oil brown seed from Jigawa, Kano and the far north — each sourced where it grows best.
Screens, de-stoners, gravity separators and optical colour sorters bring seed to the purity in your contract — 98%, 99%, 99.5% or hulled 99.9%.
Seed dried to export moisture and tested by an accredited laboratory for aflatoxin, Salmonella and pesticide residues to your market's limits.
New 25 kg or 50 kg PP bags, food-grade liners for premium grades, kraft-lined containers with desiccant — or bulk flexi-liners for crushers.
FPIS grading certificate, laboratory analysis, phytosanitary, fumigation and health certificates, certificate of origin, NXP and bank documents prepared and shared for approval before sailing.
A single point of contact who knows your contract, your specification and your schedule — with loading photographs and status updates at every stage.
Sesame quality is decided on the drying floor and the cleaning line. We check what matters at each stage and pack to protect the seed through weeks at sea.
A clear, repeatable sequence from your first enquiry to a sealed container leaving Lagos.
Share grade, specification, tonnage, packing and destination. Receive a written FOB/CIF offer.
Test our samples in your lab, agree specification and terms, confirm with pro-forma invoice.
Seed aggregated, cleaned and colour-sorted to purity, sampled for the laboratory and bagged.
Lab certificate, FPIS grading, phytosanitary and fumigation, optional third-party inspection.
Lined container stuffed, photographed, sealed and shipped; documents released.
From Lagos, Nigerian sesame reaches Turkey and Europe in two to four weeks and the major Asian buyers in four to seven, with regular sailings to the Gulf and beyond.
China, Japan and South Korea — the world's largest sesame importers, from high-volume crushing to premium colour-sorted food grade.
Turkey, Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon — tahini, halva and bakery industries buying whitish food-grade seed.
Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Greece and the UK — bakery ingredient suppliers and processors requiring full food-safety compliance.
India, Vietnam and Singapore — crushers, hullers and traders re-exporting processed sesame.
A look at the product and the process behind every shipment.
Clean natural white Nigerian sesame seeds with dried pods
Sesame field in Nigeria's northern savanna at capsule stage
Harvested sesame stooked upright to dry before threshing
Vibrating screens and optical sorting on the cleaning line
Natural white sesame — food grade, machine-cleaned
Sortex-cleaned premium seed at 99.5%+ purity
50 kg PP bags stacked on pallets in the export warehouse
Stuffing a kraft-lined 20' container at Lagos port
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Read articleStraight answers on grades, specifications, quantities, pricing, testing and paperwork. Need something specific? Our export team replies within one business day.
All FAQsWe export Nigerian sesame in four offerings: natural white (whitish) food-grade sesame from the Benue–Nasarawa belt; brown and mixed-colour sesame for oil crushing from the northern states; Sortex colour-sorted premium white sesame at 99.5% purity or better; and hulled (dehulled) white sesame processed to order. All are machine-cleaned, dried to export moisture, laboratory-tested and graded by the Federal Produce Inspection Service.
Typical contract specifications for Nigerian sesame are purity 98–99.5% (99.5%+ for Sortex grade), admixture 0.5–2% max, moisture 6–8% max, oil content 48–52% min and free fatty acid 2% max, with aflatoxin, Salmonella and pesticide-residue limits set to the destination market. We agree the exact figures in writing per contract and confirm them by laboratory analysis before shipment. [Confirm the specification you can guarantee for each grade.]
Our standard minimum is one full 20' container, approximately 19–20 tonnes of sesame in 50 kg bags. [Confirm your MOQ — e.g. 1 × 20' FCL / 19 MT] Smaller sample lots are available by courier for evaluation.
Sesame has no futures market; prices are set by origin supply, destination demand (China, Japan, Turkey and India drive the market), grade, purity and season. Nigerian prices are usually quoted in USD per metric tonne FOB Lagos, or CFR/CIF your port, for a stated grade and specification. We do not publish a list price because it changes week to week; request a quotation and you will receive a written offer within two business days.
Sesame is dense, so containers reach weight limits before they fill. A 20' container typically carries 19–20 tonnes in 50 kg PP bags (380–400 bags), or 21–22 tonnes loose in a flexi-liner. 40' containers are rarely used because road and port weight limits restrict them to roughly the same payload. Exact bag count and tonnage are confirmed on the pro-forma invoice.
Sesame is planted with the rains between May and July and harvested from around October to December. New-crop exports begin in November and run strongly through to March or April; stocks are available from exporters' warehouses year-round but become tighter and more expensive from May until the new crop arrives.
Tell us your grade, tonnage, packing and destination port. Our export team will prepare a detailed FOB or CIF quotation and a sample plan.
