Uses

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• An important food and carbohydrate source (65% for human consumption, 20% for animal feed, 15% for starch).
• Eaten raw after peeling.
• Sliced and dried, stored for several months.
• Paste (fufu) produced by pounding and cutting up boiled roots.
• Farinha, grated dried roots (Brazilian sawdust).
• Sundried strips ground into flour.
• Latex and extracted juice may be concentrated by boiling to produce "cassureep", the ingredient of West Indian pepper pot.
• Meal is fermented in West Africa to form garri.
• Leaves eaten as potherb.
• Tuber fermented with Rhizopus or Penicillium to produce a sweet banana-like product called tepi.
• Alcohol production: A beer is made from the juice of bitter cassava.
• Starch, produced by grating or grinding washed peeled tubers.
• Washing out starch with repeated changes of water and then gently heating washed starch causes it to agglutinate into round pellets called tapioca.
• The starch is used for food, manufacture of adhesives, cosmetics, sizing textiles, laundering, paper making.
• Note: it does not contain gluten so does not rise to make ordinary bread but is used for a type of biscuit that melts in the mouth.
• Tapioca is used to make puddings and confectionery: produced from the fine starch which settles when juice is squeezed.

พงษ์ศักดิ์ อยู่หุ่น PhD
คณะเกษตรศาสตร์ทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม
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