Tubers
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Especially during times of upheaval and increased food scarcity, soaking the peeled
tubers
for three days until fermentation, and then sun-drying them for a day, might seem like an unaffordable luxury.
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Konzo occurs when cassava
tubers
are not properly prepared before consumption, which usually requires soaking them until they ferment and then drying them in the sun to allow for the breakdown of cyanogenic compounds.
A transaction involving potatoes happens at one point in time only: the buyer parts with her money, the seller parts with his tubers, and that is it.
In Britain, for example, the greatest waste is in salads, vegetables, and fruits – luxuries when compared with the cheap calories contained in the grains and
tubers
consumed throughout the developing world.
There are many remedies for this kind of waste – from the “curing” of roots and
tubers
to minimize damage, to more expensive refrigeration.
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