Now she spends all day squatting on a filthy street, selling cassava flour to scrape together $20 a month.

Since local consumers often add palm oil to white cassava flour in their foods, they are normally accustomed to the golden colour.

It is prepared just like eba (cassava flour) or fufu with water and boiled for 5 to 10 minutes.

Maize, tobacco, dried meat, and cassava flour are also produced locally.

This cassava flour can be mixed with sorghum, millet and other cereals depending on preference.

Also, a type of empanada called catibía has its dough made out of cassava flour.

Inginyo is mixed with cassava flour and tamarind to make atapa.

Other households purchase the prepared cassava flour at markets.

The name was derived from the Arawakan word for cassava flour, a staple of their diet.

She only eats cooked white cassava flour and white tortoise meat.