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Biblioteca(s): 	Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura.	
Data corrente: 	07/04/1995	
Data da última atualização: 	07/04/1995	
Autoria: 	JACKSON, F. L. C.; JACKSON, R. T.; DELUMEN, B. O.; SIO, F. K.; DINKINS, L.; MUHAMMAD, A. F. H.	
Afiliação: 	University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.	
Título: 	Cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Liberia: History, geography, traditional processing and cyanogenic glycoside levels.	
Ano de publicação: 	1992	
Fonte/Imprenta: 	Ecology of Food and Nutrion, v.28, p.227-242, 1992.	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Conteúdo: 	Introduced into coastal Liberia nearly 400 years ago, cassava production has increasingly supplanted yam (Discorea spp.) cultivation and use, and has become a singinicant dietary supplement to rice (Oryza sativa). Forty-six varieties of cassava plants representing 95% of the indigenous germ plasm were collected from the Central Agricultural Research Institute at Suakoko, Liberia, identified by their local names, morphological features, geographical region of origin, and principal culinary use. The current foci for cassava production is in the southeast and central regions of Liberia among the Bassa, Gio, Grebo, Krahn, Kru and Mano ethnic groups. Here, a variety of cassava root products are eaten throughout the year as the carbohydrate staple; in the northwestand west regions, however, cassava root foodstuffs are ingested more sporadically on a seasonal basis with cassava leaves eaten regularly asa vegetlabe accompaniment to rice. The enzvmatic evaluation of residual cyanogenic glicoside levels in 106 samples of 15 different indigenously processed cassava products ranged from 107.84 (more our less 3.10)to 6.27 (more our less 3.19) micrag/g foog sample. The mean (more our less SD) daily sublethal cyanogenenic glycoside ingestion load among an enthnically representative sample of 80 adults was 0.74 mg (more ourless 09) per kg body weight (range 0-4.83 mg). Among rural Lberians, dietary intankes of cyanogenic glycosides were significantly associatedwith absolute cassava consumption (r = 0.79, p < 0.01).        	
Palavras-Chave: 	Cassava production; Cyanide; Dietary history; Ethnic groups; West Africa.	
Thesaurus Nal: 	cyanogenic glycosides; Liberia.	
Categoria do assunto: 	--	
Registro original: 	Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura (CNPMF)	
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