You can use flour and water, or cornstarch and water.

Often, it's mixed with cassava flour (farofa).

It's caused by fast processing of toxic cassava root in famine situation.

The plant could also turn that glucose into starch, a large molecule that stores energy for the plant.

And they started listening to the marketplace, and they came back with ideas for cassava chips, and banana chips, and sorghum bread, and before you knew it, we had cornered the Kigali market, and the women were earning three to four times the national average.

If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.

Other types of plastids are the amyloplasts, specialized for starch storage, elaioplasts specialized for fat storage, and chromoplasts specialized for synthesis and storage of pigments.

Fried potatoes, fried cassava, fried banana, fried meat and fried cheese are very often eaten in lunch and served in most typical restaurants.

Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).

Bread has migrated to tropical countries, where the middle classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava.

Through several major grants, IFAD has played a significant part in developing a regional technical capacity for the successful control of the cassava mealy bug in Africa.

This is one of the best agronomists in Malawi, Junatambe Kumbira, and he's discussing what sort of cassava they will plant the best converter of sunshine to food that man has found.

Maize production is estimated at 527,000 tons, or 1 per cent below last year, and cassava production at 3,295,000 tons, or 6 per cent below last year.

And they started listening to the marketplace, and they came back with ideas for cassava chips, and banana chips, and sorghum bread, and before you knew it, we had cornered the Kigali market, and the women were earning three to four times the national average.

In 1992, a second research grant was approved to finance Foreign Exploration of Natural Enemies of the Cassava Green Spider Mite in Africa by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

To meet these requirements, imports of 182,000 tons of cereal are recommended for emergency relief assistance, along with an additional 313,000 tons of cereal to be imported for commercial marketing. The remainder of food requirements should be covered by local production, mainly of cassava.

The total area cultivated under different crops are 3,576 acres of rice, 1,500 acres of groundnuts, 512 acres of maize, 67 acres of cassava, 553 acres of vegetables and 19 acres of sweet potatoes.