Sometimes this year, BBC Yoruba interviewed a family who were hospitalised and even lost one because they ate cassava peels. During the interview, the woman said they had nothing to eat and she went to pick cassava peels, dried it and made it into powder to be eaten as “Amala”.That story broke my heart and I said to myself that I wish she had made the peels go through fermentation. Raw cassava contains cyanide, which is toxic to ingest….
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