School Kids die from snack

[mike4949]

Dateline; Manila:

27 Filipino children die and 100 sick and hospitalized. They contracted food poisoning from fried cassava roots. It's a snack which is a vegetable. They have vitamins, but if not cooked properly, it can turn into cyanide poisoning.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7126123/?GT1=6305

If something can turn into poison when cooked badly, I say don't sell it as a snack!!

 

[ChuckD]

Oh my god! What a horrible thing to have happen.

 

[mike4949]

It's terrible.

Like I said,

 

[ted]

Dear God what's next!!! May the parents find the strength to cope with such a loss.

 

[La Mas Grande]

Wow thats horrible. If I'm correct cassava is what we call yuca, I make this all the time. I had no idea if its not cook right it becaome cyanide.

 

[LaBettyBoop]

OMG!!!!!! That's horrible............

 

[DiaMoND_GiRL]

oh damn....

 

[crazygirl]

damn thats crazy.. i eat yuca at home sometimes.. i never know if not cooked right it could kill ya

 

[DaddyJ02]

Wow, that's horrible....I can't even imagine how the parents must feel. That's such a tragedy.

 

[LaBettyBoop]

You know it's to the point where we can't eat anything anymore. Really! I'm so sick of hearing this kind of thing. They find something wrong with everything.

 

[Naturalstyle]

I've never heard of a Puerto Rican dying from eating "Yucca", and we've been eating it for centuries.

How the h*ll did they cook it? With gasoline?

BTW, Last week I gave ALL of my students a taste of latino snacks (Parcha, Guanabana, Guayaba nectars, Chicharrones, Platano Chips, Malta, etc.), AND some Goya-brand YUCCA chips.

 

[mike4949]

I think it might be the bad enviornment resources of life in The Philipines.

 

[LaBettyBoop]

I think it might be the bad enviornment resources of life in The Philipines.

It just has to be.......

 

[Dianita]

Things like this really get to me. I know how these parents are feeling. Sometimes I wish there was something I could do so that no other parent experiences this loss, but all I can do is pray. Us parents that lose children are never the same. Our life is usually divided into the time before that child and after that child. I mean what are we supposed to say when people ask us how many children we have? I pray that God may give these parents the strength to deal with their loss.


On a different subject, how are we NOT supposed to cook yucca. I cook it alot and I don't wanna poison anyone in my house. Though one thing I have read is many fruit SEEDS do in fact contain cyanide.

 

[mike4949]

It's like Blowfish. If a food could possibly kill you if not cooked properly. I say; DON'T EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dianita]

But I love yucca.......

 

[La Mas Grande]

I love yuca too, so this is a big surprise to me. I do make sure all my food is well cooked. This is scary.

 

[edde333]

How can they sell it if it kills you??????? do they put a label on it to say if not cooked properly, it can turn into cyanide poisoning.

 

[Dianita]

Cyanide has a bitter-almond odor. If I'm not mistaken only certain people have the ability to smell it. It is also a common industrial polutant. I still don't know how NOT to cook yuca.

 

[ricanlips4u]

Wow thats horrible. If I'm correct cassava is what we call yuca, I make this all the time. I had no idea if its not cook right it becaome cyanide.

OMG! For real? Geez.. I KNEW there was a reason I didn't care for it! It's one of those things that I just NEVER acquired a taste for.. Now I sure as HELL will keep away from it.. How sad!!