On Sat, 29 May 2021 01:38:00 -0700 (PDT), 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
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