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TARO [13 records]

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Record 1 2024-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
CONT

Starchy versus non-starchy vegetable classification is broadly based on the parts of a plant that are consumed.... Starchy vegetables... have a higher starch(or sugar) content [than non-starchy vegetables] and are considered dietary staples similar to rice or other grains. Starchy vegetables include some tubers and roots, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes(yams), cassava, sago yams, and taro. Although botanically they are classified as fruit, plantains are also classified as starchy vegetables. While starchy vegetables are concentrated sources of starch, they are less starchy than grains. Other root vegetables like carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips, and rutabagas are classified as non-starchy vegetables.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Latin
Xanthosoma sagittaefolium
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Araceae.

Key term(s)
  • arrow-leaved elephant’s ear
  • purple-stem taro
  • purple-stemmed taro

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Latin
Xanthosoma sagittaefolium
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Araceae.

Key term(s)
  • chou des Caraïbes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Latin
Xanthosoma sagittaefolium
Latin
DEF

Herbácea perenne, en un cormo o tallo principal subterráneo, en forma de rizoma, del que brotan tallos secundarios engrosados, o cormelos.

CONT

El futuro de la yautía - alimento de valor excepcional por sus características organolépticas y propiedades nutritivas - está en una ampliación de los mercados de exportación, en la aplicación de la tecnología para diversificar su utilización y en promover un consumo más intensivo en la alimentación popular en las regiones tropicales.

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Record 3 2022-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Alocasia macrorrhizos
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Araceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Alocasia macrorrhizos
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Araceae.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Colocasia gigantea
Latin
Leucocasia gigantea
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Araceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Colocasia gigantea
Latin
Leucocasia gigantea
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Araceae.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Dietetics
DEF

Food that is eaten commonly and regularly in a country or community and in such quantities as to constitute the dominant part of the diet and supply a major proportion of energy needs.

CONT

Most people live on a diet based on one or more of the following staples : rice, wheat, maize(corn), millet, sorghum, roots and tubers(potatoes, cassava, yams and taro), and animal products such as meat, milk, eggs, cheese and fish.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Diététique
DEF

Aliment de consommation courante et fréquente dans un pays ou une communauté et en quantités telles qu’il constitue la base de l’alimentation et la source d’une importante partie des apports énergétiques.

CONT

Les aliments de base varient d'une région à l'autre, mais sont généralement des féculents bon marché d'origine végétale qui sont riches en calories et qui peuvent se conserver facilement toute l'année. [...] La plupart des aliments de base dérivent soit de céréales, telles que le blé, le maïs ou le riz, ou de légumes-racines riches en amidon comme la pomme de terre, le taro et le manioc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria alimentaria
  • Dietética
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Record 6 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Alocasia cucullata
Latin
DEF

Shapely plant with smaller peltate, pointed leaves deep green with prominent veins, with base drawn together like a spoon.

OBS

Araceae family (Bengal, Burma).

OBS

Alocasia: 70 species native of tropical Asia. ... in erect in habit ... herbaceaous ... thick stem ... shield-or arrow shaped leaves on long leaf stalks ... foliage often variegated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Alocasia cucullata
Latin

Spanish

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Record 7 2016-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Root and Tuber Crops
Universal entry(ies)
Colocasia esculenta
Latin
Colocasia antiquorum
Latin
DEF

A tropical plant ... of the same family as the jack-in-the-pulpit, grown in the Pacific islands for its edible starchy roots.

OBS

One of two species of cocoyam, the other being new cocoyam (also called "yautia", "yautia malanga", "tania", "macabo"). The term "cocoyam", however, is sometimes also used as an abridged term to mean one of the two species.

OBS

Taro and dasheen are the commercial terms most widely used to describe the edible root of this tropical plant.

OBS

malanga: A common name for the genus Xanthosoma and Colocasia esculenta.

Key term(s)
  • cocoyam
  • coco-yam
  • colocasia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des plantes sarclées
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Colocasia esculenta
Latin
Colocasia antiquorum
Latin
DEF

Plantes tropicales de la famille des aracées cultivées pour leurs tubercules alimentaires.

OBS

Le taro est un tubercule poussant dans la plupart des régions tropicales.

OBS

Les sous-espèces Colocasia antiquorum et Colocasia esculenta et le genre Xanthosoma (Schott.) sont souvent confondus par le nom vernaculaire «taro» commun à plusieurs espèces.

Key term(s)
  • colocasia

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de raíces y tubérculos
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Colocasia esculenta
Latin
Colocasia antiquorum
Latin
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Record 8 2008-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
CONT

Fresh konjac is a type of tuber, similar to yam and taro, but oval in shape. The content of the main constituent, glucomannan, reaches its highest level after 3 years of growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
CONT

Le konjac est une plante d'Asie dont les tubercules sont utilisées afin de recueillir une fibre végétale appelée le glucomannane.

CONT

Le konjac est en fait un tubercule, et l'on extrait de ce tubercule une substance à la propriété étonnante ; en effet le glucomanane a la capacité d'absorber pas moins de 100 fois son volume d'eau, ce qui lui confère le pouvoir de former un gel volumineux et de grande viscosité dans l'estomac. Le gel que forme le konjac dans l'estomac n'est en aucun cas assimilé par l'organisme et n'apporte donc pas de calories.

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

River in North Italy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Rivière du nord d'Italie.

Spanish

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Record 10 1999-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooking and Gastronomy
CONT

A root-like potato with rough, hairy texture, taro root is the main ingredient in Poi for Hawaiians.

OBS

Fermented, pastelike, palatable, very digestible food of the native Hawaiians.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cuisine et gastronomie
CONT

A Hawaii une préparation spéciale hautement nutritive, le «Poi», est obtenue en laissant fermenter une pâte fabriquée à partir de tubercules de Colocasia bouillis. A une flore lactique (Lactobacillus, Streptococcus) succèdent des levures. Le produit est actuellement fabriqué à une échelle industrielle et exporté aux Etats-Unis.

Spanish

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Record 11 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Recruiting of Personnel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Recrutement du personnel

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos, unidades administrativas y comités
  • Contratación de personal
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Record 12 1996-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Root and Tuber Crops
  • Plant Biology
OBS

in taro

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes sarclées
  • Biologie végétale
OBS

botanique du taro

Spanish

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Record 13 1991-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
Key term(s)
  • Taro Industries

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

Renseignement obtenu de la compagnie.

Spanish

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