Elevated risk
Lafun
Lafun is a Nigerian fermented cassava flour described in historical accounts. This record documents reported processing stages, not a validated household method or a batch-specific cyanogen and moisture safety endpoint.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
All grains and starches10
Cereal, grain, root and starch fermentations5
Not yet classified3
Fruit preserves1
Smoked salted and dried foods1
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Recipes
High risk
Kumkum
Kumkum is a Cameroonian fermented-cassava preparation described as balls dried over a fireplace and stored or milled into flour. Sources also describe a sun-dried market form; they give no Kumkum-specific safety endpoint.
Paximadi kritiko (Cretan barley-wheat rusk)
Elena Paravantes gives a modern 50/50 whole-grain barley and wheat rusk recipe, shaped as one scored loaf, baked, separated into slices and dried in a low oven. The second rise has no stated duration.
High risk
Abacha
Abacha is a fermented cassava-strip preparation from southeastern Nigeria, sold wet or dried and later rehydrated for meals such as African salad.
Elevated risk
Attiéké from fermented cassava pulp
Attiéké is an Ivorian staple of grated cassava fermented with a traditional inoculum, then pressed, sieved, granulated, dried and steamed into fine couscous-like grains.