Cassava (also called yuca, Brazilian arrowroot and manioc) is a starchy root vegetable that’s grown globally. It’s a versatile ingredient that can be found in a wide variety of dishes, and on top of ...

Cassava flour comes from the root vegetable cassava. It can serve as a gluten-free substitute for wheat flour in bread, pasta, and other foods. To make cassava flour, a person must grate cassava, dry ...

Since cassava is a rich source of carbs, its flour has multiple applications in the food industry. You can also still eat it if you follow several common dietary restrictions. Yet, this promising ...

In this country, the question of how to round out a meal of meat and vegetables with a starch usually leads straight to the potato. But in other regions of the world, particularly Latin America, ...

The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...

Cassava has become a popular gluten-free alternative, but CR’s tests of 27 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say you should have ...

Stephen Wooding receives funding from Project Amazonas, a non-profit organization supporting humanitarian and research projects in the Peruvian Amazon. The three staple crops dominating modern diets – ...