How Drinking Garri Affect Eyes And Cause Blindness
There is a rumour in town that drinking garri can cause blindness. That is adding cool water to garri and eating it. And this is a common delicacy in Nigeria and other parts of the world. Eyes Because it is cheap and easy to prepare, it was the fast food for students. We enjoyed it with milk, groundnut and other additions. Cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz), is a perennial shrub of the New World. Like most tubers, cassava contains high levels of cyanide which together with sugar forms a compound (cyanogenic glycoside). This compound is toxic and serves to prevent herbivores from attacking tubers. Read Also : How hot water turn garri into eba Insufficiently processed products from cassava roots may contain residual amounts of cyanogenic glucosides, mainly linamarin, which is hydrolysed in the intestinal tract of both men and animals by microbial flora and hydrogen cyanide (HCN), a toxic metabolite is released which sometimes causes death. How Eating Garri Cause Blindness ...
