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Yuca is the white root origin Africa, many medical value, dries wounds, cotes the stomatch, use in to form pills in the pharmasudicals industry.
Yucca is an native to the new world the root is wash off to elininate toxins; the remainder which is a dry and used to make casabe. It is not affected by too much rain or no rain. Most people don't even know that this is the poisonous yucca that the native could have poisoned the European.
It happens to be used as a great weight management product in the US by many , eliminate your starch and replace it with casabe it works.