On 5/29/2021 2:51 PM, 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
>
Not necessarily true, as all bodies have differing needs for differing
nutrients.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/1...-phenol-foods/

https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-polyphenols#1

https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.c...n-polyphenols/

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