| food safety and amino acid balance in processed cassava "cossettes". | processed cassava (manihot esculenta crantz) roots provide more than 60% of the daily energy intake for the population of the democratic republic of congo. insufficiently processed cassava roots in a diet deficient in sulfur amino acid have been reported to cause the irreversible paralytic disease konzo, afflicting thousands of women and children in the remote rural areas of bandundu province. "cossettes" (processed cassava roots) purchased in several markets of kinshasa were analyzed for their ... | 2002 | 11982439 |