“The world’s deadliest food” kills more than 200 people a year, but millions continue to consume it.
We imagine it as nourishing, natural, almost reassuring. And yet, this everyday food, present on the plates of hundreds of millions of people, hides a little-known reality that surprises even the most informed. An essential food in many parts of the world, cassava is a starchy root cultivated for centuries in tropical regions. Resistant to…