This Angolan company is finding global buyers for its cassava and caterpillars | CNN Business

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The mopane worm – colorful, hairy and nutritious – has many things going for it, but its name is not one of them. Native to woodlands in southern Africa, it is in fact a caterpillar that’s widely eaten in rural areas; and being high in protein and low in fat, it is being pitched as a superfood to overseas markets.

Based in the Angolan capital of Luanda, on Africa’s southwest coast, FoodCare is a dried food manufacturer that processes and packages a range of 25 homegrown foods, including cassava, mushrooms, various fufu (pounded starchy

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