(n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
(n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(3) Rural farmers like Kallon – whose rice, cocoa and cassava fields account for nearly half Sierra Leone's gross domestic production – are among the hardest-hit in the economic fallout of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic.
(4) It is working with Unilever to source cassava from small farmers in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, to make industrial starch.
(5) Growing dogs were divided into three groups and were fed on a control (rice) diet, a diet in which cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz; gari) was used as the carbohydrate source, and the rice diet to which cyanide (equivalent to that present in gari) was added.
(6) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(7) To test the hypothesis that consumption of cassava with liberation of cyanide causes diabetes in malnourished individuals.
(8) However, during the planting I noticed that farmers were still throwing two pieces of cassava stem in each hole.
(9) Epidemics in East Africa have been attributed to dietary cyanide exposure from insufficiently processed cassava but a study done in Zaire disputed such an aetiology.
(10) Cassava, maize, and rice are the staple foods that are grown.
(11) About 85% of the study population consumed cassava root at least once a day.
(12) 2,6-Diaminopimelic acid (DAPA), an indicator of bacterial mass, was highest in the cassava group.
(13) Thiocyanate overload originating from consumption of poorly detoxified cassava is such that this goitrogenic factor aggravates a relative or a severe iodine deficiency.
(14) Several other promoters and regulating sequences were tested for efficiency in cassava leaves.
(15) The method was used to survey 296 samples that included 10 cultivars of dried beans, 8 types of corn products, 3 types of cassava flour, and both polished and parboiled rice between May 1985 and June 1986 in Campinas, Brazil.
(16) A causative role for cassava and kwashiorkor is improbable.
(17) The 4- and 24-hr thyroid uptakes of mice on cassava were similar to those of mice on low iodine diets.
(18) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
(19) Linamarase (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified from cassava petiole, stem, and root cortex by ammonium sulfate precipitation, column chromatography on Sepharose 6B, and chromatofocusing.
(20) Ultrastructural examination of leaf tissue of Nicotiana benthamiana infected with Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV) revealed abnormalities in phloem and, occasionally, xylem cells.
Manioc
Definition:
(n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tucupi is a yellow sauce extracted from a manioc root that must first be boiled to remove the toxins; jambu leaf numbs the lips and tongue and, says Atala, "makes everything taste bigger".
(2) There has been a great interest to supplement manioc flour with proteins.
(3) The main components of the diets were fish, lactose free milk, caseinate, partial hydrolasate of albumin, fermented corn and soya (Soy-Ogi), medium-chain triglycerides, rice and the local foods manioc, peanuts and caterpillars.
(4) The present study was planned to show the nutritive value of a basic diet including rice, beans, manioc flour and other local foods, supplemented with different sources of proteins.
(5) It's a long way from the ruins of Aleppo to the jungle forests of Kaga Bandoro, where half its people are still hiding, barely surviving on roots and the leaves of manioc plants.
(6) Rice, beans and manioc flour are foods eaten daily in Northeast Brazil.
(7) Foods were distributed into: Group A (the least perishable goods: sugar, beans, rice, oil, salt), Group B (moderately perishable goods: biscuits, chocolate, manioc flour, corn, meal, dried skim milk, macaroni, sugar-cane syrup, canned sardines, ground corn) and Group C (the most perishable goods: dried and salted fish and meat).
(8) The nutrition of the population was low in protein, calories being provided mostly by manioc, but no apparent symptoms of malnutrition were observed in the parents of our patients.
(9) The diet of the Amerindians includes as the main carbohydrate staple the manioc cassava, which has also been linked to sensorineural hearing loss in some populations.
(10) Around them all are tents displaying the rich variety of regional produce - manioc and sugar cane from the north-west, apples and milk from the south, honey and nuts from the Amazon.
(11) Today, it no longer stands alone, but it continues to draw purists not only for its beer menu, but its famous grilled chicken, served with farofa (toasted manioc flour) and salad (£16 for two people) and famous coxinhas (£7 for 10).
(12) But now that ants are becoming popular in urban areas they do not hide anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A ‘farofa de iça’, a toasted manioc flour with queen ants’ abdomen.
(13) Toxic (manioc, lathyrism) or deficiency (hypovitaminosis, malabsorption) causes are incriminated.
(14) They had lived there just five months, erecting mud houses and planting manioc.
(15) described a severe goiter endemia due to marked iodine deficiency and high daily intake of manioc as staple food.
(16) Other important risk factors were drinking "chimarrão" (a type of maté), use of a wood stove for cooking, and frequent consumption of charcoal-grilled meat and manioc.
(17) Histopathological changes in rat pancreas were induced by cyclic periods of experimental malnutrition or by cassava (manioc) feeding for 11 weeks.
(18) Our results show that in children who have secondary intestinal malabsorption the use of a partial hydrolysate of lactalbumin and the medium-chain triglycerides is recommended and the substitution of the manioc by rice also.
(19) The purpose of this work was to prepare a manioc leaf protein concentrate introducing some new procedures on the known methods developed by other authors.
(20) They lived in the Ouham region of Centro African Republic where some of the Authors ascertained a severe goiter endemia due to iodine deficiency and manioc consumption as staple food.