Like other cassava alcoholic beverages, parakaria is made by dual fermenting cassava (a large starchy root), which involves the use of an amylolytic mold (Rhizopus sp., Mucoraceae, Zygomycota) by chewing it.
Zygomycota | zygomycota |
However, zygomycota has been identified as polyphyletic, and is not included in modern fungal classification systems.