Sentences with phrase «tropical tubers»

You can't get that low eating a varied whole plant based diet, excepting those focusing on rice or tropical tubers (cassava, taro, yam) or where fruit is a third or more of calorie intake.

Taro is the common name for a family of tropical tubers.

Thankfully, I'm no stranger to the thickening and gelatinizing properties of arrowroot (starch from a tropical tuber) and agar - agar (sea vegetable).

(The cabbage is a substitute for the green tops of malanga, a tropical tuber.)

Yuca (cassava, manioc): Different from yucca, yuca is a starchy tropical tuber that is made into flour for bread and cakes, and can be cooked just like a potato to make chips or mash.

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: True yams are starchy, white - fleshed tubers common to tropical countries.

The Latin American Diet Pyramid emphasizes the benefits of grains and tubers and tropical fruits.

By carefully sifting through medical data from the afflicted regions, he identified malnutrition and inadequately processed cassava — a tuber used as food in tropical countries — as the cause of the disease, allowing for prevention through better food preparation.

Coconuts, fish from the sea, tubers rich in starchy carbohydrates (yams and sweet potatoes), and tropical fruit are the mainstays.

I used to eat so unhealthily and wonder why I got pimples (I know, such an idiot) and I live on a tropical island where the kitavan diet is so easy to follow due to such easy access to these foods, I mean, they sell all these fruits and tubers fresh on the streets!

The Kitavans eat an entirely unprocessed diet based around fish, coconuts, tubers like sweet potatoes and tropical fruits.