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On Fri, 28 May 2021 14:38:38 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
> wrote:

>On 5/28/2021 1:43 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 5/28/2021 3:36 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 2:46:51 PM UTC-4, wolfy's new skateboard
>>> wrote:
>>>> ..nt
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro
>>>>
>>>> United States
>>>>
>>>> Taro leaf-stems (petioles) for sale at a market in California, 2009
>>>> Taro has been grown for centuries in the United States, though it has
>>>> never attained the same popularity as in Asian and Pacific nations.
>>>> William Bartram observed South Carolina Sea Islands residents eating
>>>> roasted roots of the plant, which they called tanya, in 1791, and by the
>>>> 19th century it was common as a food crop from Charleston to
>>>> Louisiana.[82] In the 1920s, dasheen[nb 1], as it was known, was highly
>>>> touted by the Secretary of the Florida Department of Agriculture as a
>>>> valuable crop for growth in muck fields.[84] Fellsmere, Florida, near
>>>> the east coast, was a farming area deemed perfect for growing dasheen.
>>>> It was used in place of potatoes and dried to make flour. Dasheen flour
>>>> was said to make excellent pancakes when mixed with wheat flour. Since
>>>> the late 20th century, taro chips have been available in many
>>>> supermarkets and natural food stores, and taro is often used in American
>>>> Chinatowns, in Chinese cuisine.
>>>
>>> Yet it never seemed to catch on the way corn, wheat, potatoes, and
>>> rice have.
>>>
>>> In the Darwinian pressures of starch selection, it was far from "the
>>> fittest".
>>>
>>> If you eat meat and vegetables, you don't need taro as a "superfood".* It
>>> doesn't even have that much fiber.* Poi has a paltry 1 gram per cup.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>

>> It's mostly carbs.
>>
>> Jill

>
>PHENOLS!

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