âMany of the drugs that interact with grapefruit are highly prescribed and are essential for the treatment of important or common medical conditions,â authors of the review write in Mondayâs issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
How Healthy Is Yucca? Yucca provides a variety of potential health benefits. Yucca, a relative of the lily, is a desert plant native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Yucca is used as a feed additive for livestock due to its reputed health benefits, which include promoting faster growth and preventing illness.
The yucca (YUK-ka) in the wild has several edible parts ABOVE ground. The yuca (YEW-ka) in the grocery store is a cultivated cassava and has one edible part BELOW ground. Yucca, two Câs, officially is native to the hot, dry parts of North and Central America and the West Indies. However Y. filamentosa (fill-luh-men-TOE-suh) can be found as far west as Texas, north to Canada and east to Massachusetts. It is also found in humid Florida.