Is raw cassava black to eat?

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Cassava is a kind of root tuber growing in tropical areas. It is different from sweet potato. Although it is also a food material, it can't be eaten raw, because cassava is a kind of food material with toxic skin, and it contains a lot of heat. If you don't know how to eat cassava, it is easy to cause poisoning. Can you eat raw cassava when it turns black? Let's talk about it

Is raw cassava black to eat?

People seldom eat cassava in daily life, but cassava is a kind of food with very high protein. What we can see in daily life is cassava powder. Cassava is usually used to extract starch for food. In addition, it can also be made into feed for livestock and poultry, but no matter how it is eaten, It must be noted that it must be detoxified before it can be used for processing and eating.

Although cassava is poisonous, it has high starch content and a small amount of vitamins. If you eat it, you must first soak it in water, then remove the cassava skin. At the same time, you should cut the cassava into slices, boil it in boiling water, cool it and dry it. You can eat it safely. You can stir fry it, or grind it into powder, and eat it as miscellaneous grains.

Although cassava is toxic, it can prevent the occurrence of poisoning symptoms as long as it is handled properly before eating. Before eating cassava, you need to remove its skin, and then soak it in clean water to dissolve the cyanogen glycosides it contains. Most cassava can remove more than 80% of the toxin after soaking for six days, and then eat it again, The chance of poisoning will be much less.

matters needing attention

If you eat cassava, you must pay attention to detoxification. Therefore, as a food material, cassava must know the correct way to eat so as not to be poisoned and not to cause harm to human body. I believe that knowing the correct way to eat cassava, we can deal with it calmly when we encounter cassava again.