Sentence examples for starchy fruits from inspiring English sources

Moist, cool and tender, they were nothing like the hard, starchy fruits of winter.

A few species (P. leram, P. andamanensium, and P. utilis) have edible starchy fruits.

This is achieved by excluding high-carbohydrate foods such as starchy fruits and vegetables, bread, pasta, grains and sugar, while increasing the consumption of foods high in fat such as nuts, cream and butter.

Its starchy fruits are eaten cooked and also provide flour for baking (Clement, 1993).

There is no straightforward botanical distinction between bananas and plantains but, in general, bananas refer to the sweeter forms that are eaten uncooked, while starchy fruits that are peeled with a knife when unripe and then cooked are referred to as plantains and cooking bananas, while some cultivars are 'beer bananas' for fermentation of the juice, or used for deep frying as banana chips.

Patiño (1989), discussing the idea that Bactris gasipaes was domesticated because of its starchy fruits (Sauer 1952), suggested that the initial impetus might have been use of the wood, which nowadays is preferred for technological artifacts in many areas (Rival 1996).

A relish made from the dika nut is customarily eaten with plantain, a starchy fruit similar to the banana.

The breadfruit tree, which produces a large starchy fruit in abundance in the early summer, was also widely distributed.

The items were evenly distributed across five categories (salty, sweet, starchy, fruit or dairy) and varied in calorie content (range: 7.2 523.4; mean: 139.8±94.8 s.d. Cal per serving based on USDA database listings ( ndb.nal.usda.gov)).usda.gov

A welcome flicker of humor enters the exhibition courtesy of Nicolas Dumit Estevez's instructional video about the plantain, a starchy fruit similar to bananas popular throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America.

The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.