Dia de Campo na TV - Hortaliças tradicionais (Legendas em inglês)

Arowroot is a vegetable traditionally cultivated by communities in the

northeast and southeast. The plant roots are used to manufacture flour

or manioc starch, which may be used to make cakes and cookies. In

addition to nutritional content, arrowroot flour does not contain

gluten. Ora-pro-nobis is used in Minas Gerais, usually in casseroles or

sautéed. that vegetable is rich in proteins, nutrients rarely found in

vegetal sources. Yams or carás, as they are named in Brazil

middle-south, are rich sources of carbohydrates and have a depurative

action on blood. Those vegetables have in common coarseness, high

nutritional content and the fact that they have been disappearing from

brazilian production fields. They are named nonconventional vegetables,

or traditional vegetables, as they are out of the supply chain and are

in general kept by traditional communities.