On Sun, 30 May 2021 07:03:35 +1000, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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
>Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
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