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| Can sweet potatoes provide the solution to Egypt’s needs amid global grain shortage? |
| 2022-07-09 |
Needs must, when the Devil drives. During WWII in Britannia, they had recipes for all sorts of ersatz things made with carrots. Then there’s whatever margarine is made of... [AlAhram] Egypt’s Minister of Supply Ali Moselhi has recently said his ministry plans to add sweet potato to subsidised bread due to the global grains crisis. Moselhi's remark made headlines and raised questions among the public about the plan which is still being studied."Using sweet potato to make bread can save up to a million tons of wheat," Moselhi said at a presser on 26 June, noting that Egypt is self-sufficient in sweet potato and is studying the technology required for the process. Working on this idea for more than 20 years, Abdel-Moneim El-Gendy, a researcher at the Ministry of Agriculture and founder of a research project for the production of bread from potatoes, has asserted in a phone-in interview with al-Nahar channel that the "product is suitable for human consumption." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 That and avocados, I definitely don't care about. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-09 10:42 |
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