Making cassava flour safe using the wetting method
Many people, particularly in Africa, suffer various conditions from eating bitter cassava which contains poisonous cyanogens. As well as poisoning, which sometimes causes death, these conditions include konzo, an irreversible paralysis of the legs, which affects mainly children and young women, impa...
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Main Authors: | J. Howard Bradbury (Author), Julie Cliff (Author), Jean P. Banea (Author) |
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Health and Social Sciences Research Institute - South Sudan (HSSRI-SS),
2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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