Gut flora composition and function may impact susceptibility to konzo, a neurological disease caused by world staple crop cassava (IMAGE)

Children's National Hospital

Gut flora composition and function may impact susceptibility to konzo, a neurological disease caused by world staple crop cassava

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Neerja Vashist is learning how to make fufu. Fufu is a traditional food made from cassava flour, and the cassava flour used in the making of the fufu here has gone through the wetting method to further remove toxins from the cassava flour prior to consumption.

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Brambel et al. Children's National Hospital, Nature Communications (2021).

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