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• The concentrated juice of the bitter cassava, under the name of cassareep, forms the basis of the West India dish, "pepper pot. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• Very starchy foods such as cassava contain virtually nothing but carbohydrates and water.
• -- This euphorbiaceous plant yields cassava or mandiocca meal. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
• Cassava is grown for its starchy tubers, which are most often used to prepare farina or flour, and it is the primary source of carbohydrates in sub-Saharan Africa.
• With that aid, they're building wells, increasing chicken and goat production, reforesting their land with fruit-bearing trees and cassava, and planting maize, beans and sweet potatoes.
• In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
• The cassava - based fuel ethanol is a potentially significant green fuel for automobile.
• · Appropriate starters have been developed that can produce amylase and linamarase enzymes necessary for starch breakdown and cyanogenic glucoside hydrolysis; two major biochemical processes needed in cassava processing. 12 Cassava Processing in Africa
• Tapioca: A superfine grind of the starch from cassava tubers, and is used to thicken puddings, soups and pie fillings as well as functioning as an egg replacer in certain vegan mixtures. Archive 2009-07-01
• Throughout the southern part of Brazil, large fields of cassava are grown for flour and starch in a manner similar to the way we grow crops in the United States.