On Sat, 29 May 2021 13:51:50 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>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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