1, swelling and detoxification

Cassava is China's botanical atlas included in the poisonous plants, this plant is poisonous, but its medicinal value should not be ignored, cassava bitter, cold, heart meridian. The main effect is to reduce swelling and detoxification, commonly used in carbuncle sores, bruises and pain, bruises, traumatic swelling and pain, scabies, ringworm and other diseases.

2, supplemental nutrition

Worldwide production of cassava nearly 65% is used with human food, hot and humid zones of low-income farming families of the main edible crops. Cassava is rich in starch, and cassava flour of good quality, its sweet varieties of its tubers can be directly cooked and eaten, can also be processed into cassava flour, cassava granules and dried cassava chips.

Extended information:

While people around the globe love cassava, it is indeed poisonous. Cassava is a cyanogenic plant, its plant organs contain 2 kinds of cyanogenic glycosides linum usitatissimum and pachymene glycosides, of which linum usitatissimum accounted for about 95%, is the main cyanogenic glycosides, once these cyanogenic glycosides and the cell in the β-glucosidase hydrolyzing enzyme contact, you can undergo an enzyme reaction, rapid production of toxic cyanide.

Of course, cassava is not an example of a cyanogenic plant in the plant world, there are other forms of cyanogenic glycosides, such as amygdalin, pomeloside, podophyllotoxin, marshmallow glycoside and flax bittersweet glycosides, etc., which are present in the cells of plants of different families and genera.

Eating cassava to avoid poisoning method

First, absolutely can not eat raw cassava. Must be peeled and boiled, because the cassava skin is highly toxic;

Second, do not eat cassava on an empty stomach, do not drink the water in which the cassava is boiled, and do not eat too much, after all, even if the cassava has been processed there are still trace toxins present;

Third, do not use a copper pot to cook, because the substance in the cassava and the copper is easy to form the precipitation of copper cyanide, the precipitation will be decomposed when there are too many, and decomposition of copper and cyanide are poisonous. Copper compounds and cyanide are toxic substances.

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