Cassava is a woody shrub reaching 2 to 4m height that is grown in
the tropic and sub tropic for it underground starchy tuberous root.
Cassava roots,also called cassava tuber are a major staple
food for more than **0m people in the world. Each plant has **0
starchy elongated tubers. Each tuber may be ***0 cm long and **0 cm
in diameter. Average tuber weight is between *7 kg and the number
and size is highly variable between cultivars and ground
conditions.
Cassava tuber can be after boiled,mashed or deep fried etc. There
are many food products based on cassava such as tapioca(cassava
starch),a worldwide food ingredient,fufu(cassava flour boiled in
water) and garri (fermented cassava mash).Cassava tuber also
provide starch for ethanol production.
