On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 4:38:42 PM UTC-4, 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!

VEGETABLES!

Cindy Hamilton