Description

Cassava  is a shrub grown in the tropics and subtropics for its underground starchy tuberous roots. Cassava tubers can be eaten boiled, mashed, deep-fried, etc. and there are many food products based on cassava, such as tapioca (cassava starch), a worldwide food ingredient, fufu (cassava flour boiled in water) and garri (fermented cassava mash), the two last popular foods in West and Central Africa. Cassava tubers also provide starch for ethanol production. Other cassava products include the finger-like leaves, which are consumed as vegetables or used as feed and numerous by-products (notably pomace and peels) of the cassava processing industries (from starch, ethanol and cassava food production, etc.), which are also potential feeds.