(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.
Tapioca
Definition:
(n.) A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Other systems could benefit from the use of Tapioca as an overlay, since it was possible to titer Measles virus in Vero cells.
(3) Staple foodstuffs with a high buffer content (unmilled rice, unrefined wheat and a millet [ragi]) placed in the stomach after pyloric ligation are also protective, but those with a low buffer content (milled rice, tapioca, sorghum and maize) are not protective.
(4) Four steers with simple rumen and abomasal cannulas were given diets consisting of ground and pelleted alkali-treated straw, rolled barley and tapioca supplemented with urea (diet U) or containing single-cell protein (diet SCP), maize-gluten meal (diet MGM) or rapeseed meal (diet RSM) in place of some of the tapioca.
(5) With 20% tapioca the decrease of performance was 1.5%.
(6) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).
(7) Two experiments with laying hens were carried out with 5-30% tapioca.
(8) After feeding rests of slaughtered poultry together with whey, tapioca and residues of stark production to pigs 70% of the slaughtered pigs were refused by the meat inspection because of yellow fat and yellow hair.
(9) More than 50% of the Aborigines take tapioca or tapioca leaves at least once a week compared to less than 20% among the Malays.
(10) Two distinct fractions were obtained from tapioca amylose.
(11) It is possible to use 20% tapioca meal in the feed for chickens and pullets without a decrease in performance.
(12) With respect to the larvicidal activity, the mycelia grown for 7 days in the medium containing jaggery, tapioca starch, rice flour or rice bran caused 88-96 per cent mortality while that from other media, including PYGSF agar medium, caused 70-75 per cent mortality.
(13) A link between NB and dry tapioca has been deduced.
(14) They were given diets consisting of approximately equal proportions of ground, pelleted alkali treated straw and a rolled barley, tapioca mixture supplemented with urea + casein (UC), soybean meal (SBM), 'normal' white fishmeal (NDF) or white fishmeal designated as being of 'low' rumen degradability (LDF).
(15) Secondly, different batches of the 17DD virus using the Tapioca and Karaya gum as the overlay on Vero cells were tested when higher titres were obtained using Tapioca.
(16) A case of a tapioca melanoma of the iris is studied by light and electron microscopy.
(17) Egg production decreases slightly with a tapioca quota of 10% and more.
(18) The effects of a chemically-modified tapioca starch hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate (HDP), and unmodified tapioca starch (UMS) on 59Fe retention by rats were compared.
(19) Called falooda , it’s a refreshing mix of rose syrup, tapioca seeds and cow’s milk.
(20) Clinically, histologically, and ultrastructurally this tumor was the same as a recently reported tapioca melanoma of the iris.