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On Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 1:41:31 PM UTC-4, wolfy's new skateboard wrote:
> 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?


If you eat a good quantity of a variety of vegetables, you'll get plenty
of phenols. No need to eat poi.

Cindy Hamilton
 
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