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Peeled cassava roots are cut and soaked in water for two to five days, where bacteria and yeasts ferment and soften them. The soft roots are broken up, freed of fibre, sun-dried and milled into a flour that is stirred into boiling water to make a stiff dough.
Fully documentedRoots and tubers5 days – 8 days
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceFrom a Benin study with skilled processors (Bouniol 2021). The dough amounts make 1 kg of lafun dough.
Cassava roots, peeled, cut into 7–10 cm pieces and washed35 kg
The study used only low-cyanide (sweet) varieties[bouniol2021]
Total time across the recorded steps: 5 days – 8 days
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What changes:Cassava pieces soak under water for days and soften as they ferment
Step 1 of 4
Soak the cut roots and let them ferment
Time
2–5 days
Reported
Temperature
28–30 °C
Measured
Salt
None given
Acidity
pH 7.7–7.7 → 4.43
Measured
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Yeasts
Output: soft, fermented roots.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
roots soften
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
aerobic bacteria rise from 6–7 to 9 log, lactic bacteria from 5 to 9 log and yeasts from 3 to 5–6 log cfu/g
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Peeled cassava roots are cut and soaked in water for two to five days, where bacteria and yeasts ferment and soften them. The soft roots are broken up, freed of fibre, sun-dried and milled into a flour that is stirred into boiling water to make a stiff dough. Made in 4 steps over 5 days – 8 days. The longest step, soak the cut roots and let them ferment, takes 2–5 days (Bouniol A 2021) and runs at 28–30 °C (Bouniol A 2021). Lactic bacteria: Limosilactobacillus fermentum 42 %, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum 30 %, Weissella confusa 18 % of lactic isolates and Yeasts: Saccharomyces cerevisiae 22 %, Pichia scutulata 20 %, Kluyveromyces marxianus 18 % of yeast isolates do most of the fermenting.
Lafun from improved varietiesSixteen local and improved varieties, some yellow-fleshed, were tested; the promising improved ones made doughs close in hardness to local varieties.
Safety
Most aerobic bacteria isolated from lafun fermentation were from the Bacillus cereus group and carried enterotoxin genes, though not the emetic-toxin gene. Cassava also holds compounds that release cyanide. The recipe on this page comes from a study that used only low-cyanide sweet varieties [bouniol2021], and no source we read measured cyanide in lafun. Do not assume this recipe removes enough from bitter roots. Cyanide dissolves into the soak water, so throw that water away [fao1990].
Hazards the sources name: Bacillus cereus group, 71 % of aerobic isolates (no cereulide gene, but genes for the HBL and Nhe enterotoxins).