On 5/29/2021 2:38 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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
>

Some have high phenols, others not so much.

So?