Word: cassava
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they point out, more than two pounds of grain are grown daily for every person on earth, and two pounds contain more food energy than the 3000 calories per person that most Americans consume now. This estimate does not include the simultaneous production of other staples--beans, cassava, potatoes, range-fed meat, fruits and vegetables. "Thus," they write, "on a global scale the idea that there is not enough food to go around just does not hold...
...mice showed Laetrile offered no benefits whatsoever in the treatment of either breast or colon cancers transplanted from humans. Dr. Joseph Ross, a U.C.L.A. professor of medicine, also raised the "strong possibility" that long-term ingestion of Laetrile could result in chronic poisoning similar to that from the starchy cassava root, which, like Laetrile, contains cyanide...
...ripe seeds as well as its tasty pods. Researchers with the National Academy of Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes-are low in protein. "Believe me, the plant tastes good," says Plant Geneticist Theodore Hymowitz of the University of Illinois. "The flowers taste like mushrooms fried in oil. You can eat the whole thing like an ice cream cone...