Abstract:PREFACEThis Handbook is the result of a combined effort by several current and previous cassava researchers at CIAT to review and summarize the most important results of cassava research during the past 40 years. Most of the chapters are based on the various presentations during the Regional Cassava Training Course, held in Thailand from October 6 to 17, 2008. This course was organized upon the realization that many people that were actively involved with cassava research in the 1970s and 80s, both at CIAT and… Show more
“…Furthermore, good agronomical practices will increase the yield of these sweet cultivars [28] which have been shown to have minimal cyanide content and their cultivation encouraged. This would reduce the risk that is usually associated with high content of residual cyanide that remains during processing of the bitter cultivars especially during dry season (January-June) when water scarcity could lead to inadequate processing of cassava products to safer residual limits.…”
The amount of cyanide in fresh and cooked tuber parenchyma (pulp) of three cultivars of sweet cassava from two local government areas (LGA) of Benue state was studied. Cassava tubers were collected and carefully peeled to obtain the pulp. The fresh and boiled samples were adequately processed and treated with ninhydrin, Na2CO3 and NaOH and the absorbance of the reaction product measured using UV-Visible spectrometer after construction of a calibration graph using standard cyanide solutions. The amount of cyanide in the fresh pulp varied with differences in cultivars ranging from White Dan-Warri Cultivar: (19.87 to 28.81) mg/kg; Obasanjo cultivar: (17.23 to 28.81) mg/kg and Red Dan-Warri Cultivar (8.23 to 19.31) mg/kg. Also, the cyanide content of cultivars from Oju LGA was generally higher than that of the cultivars from Gwer-east LGA. Cyanide content varied with the period of the day harvested in the order: Afternoon > Evening > Morning for all cultivars. Furthermore, cooking greatly reduced the cyanide content of all the sweet cassava cultivars but boiling was more effective than roasting with the cyanide removal increasing with increase in cooking time. The cyanide content of the tuber parenchyma of the sweet cassava cultivars was very low (<30 mg/kg) which is in agreement with reported values for sweet cassava. However, cooking at a reasonable time interval will further reduce their cyanide levels to further safe limits.
“…Furthermore, good agronomical practices will increase the yield of these sweet cultivars [28] which have been shown to have minimal cyanide content and their cultivation encouraged. This would reduce the risk that is usually associated with high content of residual cyanide that remains during processing of the bitter cultivars especially during dry season (January-June) when water scarcity could lead to inadequate processing of cassava products to safer residual limits.…”
The amount of cyanide in fresh and cooked tuber parenchyma (pulp) of three cultivars of sweet cassava from two local government areas (LGA) of Benue state was studied. Cassava tubers were collected and carefully peeled to obtain the pulp. The fresh and boiled samples were adequately processed and treated with ninhydrin, Na2CO3 and NaOH and the absorbance of the reaction product measured using UV-Visible spectrometer after construction of a calibration graph using standard cyanide solutions. The amount of cyanide in the fresh pulp varied with differences in cultivars ranging from White Dan-Warri Cultivar: (19.87 to 28.81) mg/kg; Obasanjo cultivar: (17.23 to 28.81) mg/kg and Red Dan-Warri Cultivar (8.23 to 19.31) mg/kg. Also, the cyanide content of cultivars from Oju LGA was generally higher than that of the cultivars from Gwer-east LGA. Cyanide content varied with the period of the day harvested in the order: Afternoon > Evening > Morning for all cultivars. Furthermore, cooking greatly reduced the cyanide content of all the sweet cassava cultivars but boiling was more effective than roasting with the cyanide removal increasing with increase in cooking time. The cyanide content of the tuber parenchyma of the sweet cassava cultivars was very low (<30 mg/kg) which is in agreement with reported values for sweet cassava. However, cooking at a reasonable time interval will further reduce their cyanide levels to further safe limits.
“…This could be overcome by the use of a than 500 million people (Cock 1982) and is a typical crop lactic acid bacteria starter to control fermentation and proin developing countries. Cassava is considered to be a key duce high quality products.…”
E . G IR A UD , A . CH AM P AI LL E R, S. M OU LA R D A ND M . R AI M BA UL T . 1998. A miniaturized most probable number (MPN) method for the selective enumeration of three bacteria species (Lactobacillus plantarum A6, Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Lactococcus lactis) is described. This selective count method, based on specific consumption of carbon substrate and resistance to antibiotics, was used for the quantitative assessment of the three bacteria during mixed cultures in a model cassava fermentation. A typical microbial succession pattern was observed: (i) Lactococcus lactis and Leuc. mesenteroides dominated during the first hours of fermentation as their growth was very rapid ; (ii) from hour 12, Lactobacillus plantarum replaced the two latter strains and Lactococcus lactis disappeared gradually, followed by Leuc. mesenteroides. The growth rates of each strain appeared to be independent of the others, while acidification rates increased strongly in mixed cultures compared with pure cultures. No positive interactions resulting from the amylolytic character of Lactobacillus plantarum A6, and no negative interactions resulting from the Nis ¦ property of Lactococcus lactis, were revealed between the three strains under the model conditions used.
“…Cassava diets in experimental animals have been associated with heart and vascular damage, conditions worsened by protein deficiency (Sandhyamani 1992;Akanji & Fumuyiwa 1993;Kamalu 1993;Sezi 1996). Cassava is ingested worldwide, however (Cock 1982), and if cardiotoxic, local factors such as soil geochemistry (Valiathan et al 1986) or preparation methods (Rosling & Tylleskar 1995) may be important. An alternative explanation is that cassava is another marker of poverty not fully adjusted by confounders, particularly given the age imbalance between cases and controls in the younger age range.…”
Summaryobjective To determine the relative risks of socio-demographic, dietary, and environmental factors for endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) in Uganda.method Unmatched case control study in Mulago Hospital, Kampala. Cases (n ϭ 61) were sequential patients hospitalized with an echocardiographic diagnosis of EMF from June 1995 to March 1996. Controls (n ϭ 120) were concurrent patients with other forms of heart disease (heart controls, n ϭ 59) and subjects admitted for trauma or elective surgery (hospital controls, n ϭ 61). All consenting subjects answered a structured questionnaire administered by trained interviewers. Complete blood counts, malaria films and stool examination for ova and parasites were performed. Questionnaires elicited information on home address, economic circumstances, variables concerned with environmental exposures and usual diet before becoming ill.results After adjustment for age and sex, cases were significantly more likely than controls to have Rwanda/Burundi ethnic origins (P ϭ 0.008). Compared with controls, cases had a lower level of education (P Ͻ 0.001 for heart controls and P ϭ 0.07 for hospital controls), were more likely to be peasants (P Ͻ 0.001), and to come from Luwero or Mukono Districts (P ϭ 0.003). After further adjustment for peasant occupation, cases were more likely than controls to walk barefoot (P ϭ 0.015), consume cassava as their staple food (P Ͻ 0.001) and to lack fish or meat in dietary sauces (P ϭ 0.02). Cases were more likely to exhibit absolute eosinophilia (P ϭ 0.006). The effect of cassava diet was more marked in the younger age group, while the effect of eosinophilia was greater in adults. Socio-economic disadvantage is a risk for EMF. Absolute eosinophilia is a putative cause of EMF, a finding not explained by parasitism.conclusion Data indicate that relative poverty and environmental factors triggering eosinophilia appear to act in a geographically restricted region of Uganda in the aetiology of EMF. keywords endomyocardial fibrosis, cassava, eosinophilia correspondence Prof. J. L. Ziegler,
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