Dr Howard Bradbury. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
The world's poorest people no longer face tragedy in every mouthful, thanks to the efforts of a modest man of science. By TEGAN DOLSTRA. You know your food is poisoned, but you have no choice. Eat it and you risk losing the ability to walk; don't and you risk death by starvation. In the poorest of the poor communities of central Africa, in villages that lack roads in or out, this is an everyday peril. Here, many people have just one meal a day - a thick, bitter porridge, fufu, made from the ground flour of the cassava root. The bitter taste of fufu is a tangible warning that to eat it is to risk your life - the ominous telltale sign of cyanide compounds, cyanogens.
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