bitter cassava การใช้

• Bammy is made from bitter cassava ( also called yuca and manioc in other American cultures ).
• Konzo ( also called mantakassa ) is a paralytic disease associated with several weeks of almost exclusive consumption of insufficiently processed bitter cassava.
• A number of studies implicate the combination of high cyanide intake from bitter cassava and low intake of sulfur amino acids as the etiological factors.
• Outbreaks typically occur in the dry season in households living in absolute poverty that have sustained themselves for weeks or months on insufficiently processed bitter cassava.
• Once harvested, bitter cassava must be treated and prepared properly prior to human or animal consumption, while sweet cassava can be used after simple boiling.
• The disease onset is associated with high intake of cyanide from a monotonous diet of bitter cassava which is low in protein, particularly sulfur amino acids.
• The processing requires harvesting the cassava, and soaking the cassava for four days, while the women return to their farm to harvest fresh bitter cassava.
• Bammy cakes are used to serve fried fish at roadside stands ( similar to taco shells, although the flavor is nothing like corn or flour taco shells . ) These cakes are made from grated bitter cassava ( Manihot utilissima Pohl ) root which has been carefully processed to remove toxic compounds.
• The dose-response relationship between konzo incidence and cyanide intake, together with the prevention of konzo in many villages by reducing cyanide intake from cassava ( see below ) and the importance of sulfur amino acids in prevention of konzo, shows that konzo is very likely due to high cyanide / low sulfur amino acid intake in a diet of bitter cassava.