Yeah, you can keep the cold. We are from California so that makes us total sissy’s when it comes to cold 🥶.

I also did some research after reading your post and apparently there are two kinds of yuca, sweet and bitter. The yuca that’s sold in stores in the US are the sweet kind and those yuca have very minuscule traces of cyanide. I imagine the yuca sold here in Costa Rica are also the sweet variety, and hopefully they are also clear of cyanide 🤷🏼‍♀️ Otherwise just boiling them (which is a necessary part of preparing them) cooks it all out- I believe 🥴

Edit: no drinking over here ‍♀️‍♀️