What is cassava

September 2, 2023
When I was a child to winter often eat potatoes, cassava, now the market potatoes often see, but it is difficult to have the shadow of cassava, slowly forget that no taste, perhaps many people still do not know cassava, cassava is what?

What is cassava

Cassava, also known as tree potatoes, cassava, South potato, is the tuberous root of the family Euphorbiaceae, cassava is rich in starch, can be done directly as food processing and consumption, can also be processed into starch, do all kinds of food raw materials, more as feed to feed animals.

Types of cassava

Cassava is originally a tropical American plant, now widely planted around the world, and cassava is very easy to mutate, so now there are more than 160 kinds of cassava, mainly divided into dwarf herbs, shrubs and small trees. Nowadays, cassava is grown, and there are sweet cassava and bitter cassava.

How to eat cassava

Directly eaten

China is now growing cassava sweet cassava and bitter cassava, can be eaten as a dish cooking, sweet cassava does not contain toxins, can be directly peeled into dishes can be eaten. Bitter cassava, on the other hand, contains toxins, need to peel and cut, with water and change the water soak two days to remove toxins, and then fried dishes, tasty as sweet cassava general.

Make starch for consumption

Cassava can also be processed into starch, in the processing of cassava, whether sweet cassava or bitter cassava, do not need to remove toxins, toxins will be destroyed in the processing process, the finished starch is no toxins. Starch can be made into buns, bread and other foods.

Cassava consumption contraindications

Cassava is not suitable for consumption with persimmons, while eating can make gastrointestinal bleeding or cause stomach ulcers. To prevent cassava poisoning, before eating cassava must do a good job of cassava detoxification, detoxification of complete cassava is the same as potatoes no matter what dietary contraindications.
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