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The Sherpa diet is dominated by starchy foods, supplemented by vegetables, spices, and occasionally meat.
One of the most intriguing fruits of its kind is the jackfruit, a close relative of the breadfruit, a starchy staple of most Caribbean diet.
He was dressed in a very starchy white shirt that seemed two sizes too big and very ugly pants that seemed to be made of burlap.
Endosperm refers to the rest of the seed, i.e. the seed coat, pericarp, aleurone layer, and starchy endosperm.
So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods, sugar and other sweet foods.
Capt Osborne, head of military police at Fort Clayton, is put in charge of the case, but she's too uptight and starchy to make a mouse squeal.
In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams.
It's quite a contrast from the stiff upper lip, starchy world of wool huntcoats that I've grown up with.
Contestants chat in nervous bursts about other quizzes, the way the show works and its starchy dress code.
British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion.
Kerry may be highly intelligent, but he is starchy, stiff and emotionally not as skilled.
And while yams are dry and starchy and can make a good chip, they contain little to no beta-carotene or vitamin A, and so are less nutritious.
The staple food of the Central African diet is cassava, which is a starchy root.
Another staple of Liberian cuisine is cassava, a tropical plant with starchy roots from which tapioca is obtained.
Avoid fatty and fried foods and stick to starchy foods like rice, potatoes and pasta.
Our culinary forebears hired starchy German ladies to feed their children, and tended to regard a pot of boiled lima beans as a gourmet event.
Cereal grains, for example, store the bulk of their storage proteins in the starchy endosperm.
It's bad enough having to gnaw on the inedible beef au jus and starchy carrot sticks.
Some varieties of bananas, such as plantains, are nonsweet and starchy like a potato.
Most of its volume is taken up by the starchy endosperm, where starch and storage proteins are accumulated.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Biscuits made of inulin, the starchy principle largely contained in Iceland moss, were suggested by Kuelz.
There was a short pause, broken only by the faint crackling of starchy petticoats.
Indigestible food and an excess of starchy or fatty food conduce to disorder of duodenal digestion.
In many starchy fruits, a small proportion of phosphate remains attached to the end product.
Thus the nitrogenous compounds are called the nutritive, and the starchy materials the calorifacient elements of the food.
It has no odor, and a starchy taste, followed by some acridity, but no bitterness.
This is in order that the starchy interior may be easily acted on by the diastase.
The starchy materials generally used for this purpose are plain flour, browned flour, corn starch, and arrowroot flour.
She was on her way, I suppose, to some wild garden, probably for lupine and starchy saxifrage leaves and rootstocks.
But glucose can be more cheaply obtained from other starchy or woody materials and they cannot find a market for the xylose.
Stepan Arkadyevitch crushed the starchy napkin, tucked it into his waistcoat, and settling his arms comfortably, started on the oysters.
The cycadaceous family yields much starchy matter, along with mucilage.
Why must the starchy foods be changed in the body into sugar, or glucose?
Repeat, examining a drop of starchy water washed from flour.
He kissed her and wiped her eyes with the end of her starchy apron.
Eating starchy vegetables such as corn and potatoes, especially with butter, was linked to weight gain.
The RECON plan utilizes a diet that reduces starchy carbs and sugar while focusing on eating meats, vegetables, eggs, cheeses and nuts.
Unprocessed starchy foods should make up around a third of everything we eat.
Which starchy food-thickening agent comes from the tubers of a tropical plant?
Look out for Jessica Raine in a much more gritty role than starchy Jenny Lee in Call The Midwife.
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