If you've ever had a creamy purple drink at a boba shop or sampled a bowl of poi alongside your kalua pork at a luau, you've tasted one of the world's first cultivated plants: taro. This starchy root ...

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It’s a sweet, vanilla-coconut flavor that shows up in boba tea and ice cream, and the main ingredient in both savory, crunchy chips and perfectly bouncy, cakey doughnuts — but, before it gets ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A super-sized taro root has been harvested on Hawaii's Big Island. The 50-pound corm, which is the root of a taro plant, was grown on Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in Hawaii Island’s ...

Taro is a starchy root vegetable that’s beloved by people all over the world, from the Caribbean Islands to West Africa, Greece, Egypt, India, east Asia and the Pacific Islands. Many researchers ...

Nellie and Clarence Medeiros pose with a 50-pound taro root unearthed at the couple’s South Kona farm on Hawaii island. West Hawaii Today photo via AP KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A super-sized taro ...

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