For the fruit: ¼ cup rum ¼ cup water 2½ cups diced dried fruit of your choice, such as dates, prunes, raisins or apricots For the cake: 3¼ cups sugar 2 cups cassava flour, available at Kroger ...

Cassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest’s fruits were key to the children’s extraordinary survival in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound.

Cassava flour and fruit kept 4 kids alive for 40 days after plane crash in Colombia's jungle By Associated Press and Chris Kaye ...

Cassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest's fruits were key to the children's extraordinary survival in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound.

Cassava flour and fruit kept 4 children alive for 40 days after plane crash in Colombia's jungle By Manuel Rueda and Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press | Posted - June 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Four Indigenous children survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian sold… ...

The Indigenous children, who ranged in age from 13 years to 11 months old, were being treated in a hospital Saturday after surviving 40 days in the Amazon jungle on their own.

Fariña is a cassava flour that people eat in the Amazon region. “After the fariña ran out, they began to eat seeds,” Valencia said. Timing was in the children’s favor.