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Poi is a traditional staple food in the Polynesian diet, made from taro.Traditional poi is produced by mashing cooked taro on a wooden pounding board (papa kuʻi ʻai), with a carved pestle (pōhaku kuʻi ʻai) made from basalt, calcite, coral, or wood.
Dioscorea alata – also called ube (/ ˈ uː b ɛ,-b eɪ /), ubi, purple yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam (a tuber). The tubers are usually a vivid violet - purple to bright lavender in color (hence the common name), but some range in color from cream to plain white.
Poi is a Hawaiian cuisine staple food made from taro. Traditional poi is produced by mashing cooked starch on a wooden pounding board (papa kuʻi ʻai), with a carved pestle (pōhaku kuʻi ʻai) made from basalt, calcite, coral, or wood. [109] [110] Modern methods use an industrial food processor to produce large quantities for retail distribution.
Ube is the Tagalog word for purple yam, but don't confuse it with the nearly identical purple sweet potato, also called the Okinawa sweet potato, or taro. While ube and purple sweet potatoes are ...
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Dacryodes edulis is a fruit tree in the family Burseraceae native to Africa.Its various regional names include safou (Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola), messa, plum (), atanga (Equatorial Guinea and Gabon), ube, elumi/rukuki (), [2] [3] African pear, bush pear, African plum, nsafu, bush butter tree, or butterfruit.
Merriam-Webster defines "fruit" as "the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant." Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some ...
Yams at Port-Vila market A piece of cake made with ube (purple yam; Philippines) In the Philippines, the purple ube species of yam (D. alata), is eaten as a sweetened dessert called ube halaya, and is also used as an ingredient in another Filipino dessert, halo-halo. It is also used as a popular ingredient for ice cream. [citation needed]