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7. Meal may be prepared from either the bitter 
or the sweet cassava. 
In the juice of the bitter kind there is a poison 
which causes death. Yet it is bitter cassava that 
The Cassava Plant and its Roots. 
is mostly grown for making meal, because it yields 
more tubers than the sweet kind. Fortunately, 
we know how the poison may be easily got rid 
of We have only to heat the juice, and the 
poison is driven off. 
