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28 May, 2015
A woman places mud cookies to sun drying in the city of Port au Prince, capital of Haiti, on May 27, 2015. The mud cookies represent an alternative to satisfy the hunger in Haiti. Using only three ingredients for processing, mud, salt and butter. Mud cookies somehow cover the food needs of the poorest people. The land can supply calcium to pregnant women, but health experts say that it may also contain deadly parasites or industrial toxins, plus processing conditions are unhygienic and the places where the mud cookies are dried in the sun are surrounded by garbage and ponding water. (Xinhua/Luz Sosa)
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