Cassava directly steamed eat is afraid.

Tapioca is best not eaten directly steamed, because tapioca itself is a certain toxicity, so before eating to be processed, it is best not to eat directly steamed. Eating cassava must be peeled, otherwise it is easy to cause poisoning. Cassava can be used as food to eat, can also be used to processed into some chemical products.

The taste and characteristics of cassava:

Cassava from the flavor to distinguish, can be divided into bitter cassava and sweet cassava, these two kinds of cassava in fact are poisonous, should not be directly eaten raw, but the toxicity of bitter cassava is higher, the toxicity of sweet cassava is lower.

Sweet cassava, also known as bread cassava, the outermost skin is reddish-brown, can be easily torn open, revealing the following close to the fleshy inner skin, the upper surface of this layer of the inner skin is light pink, near the cassava pulp is creamy white.

Reference: People's Daily Online - Tapioca is poisonous Drinking milk tea can not add pearls?