Shoti

Shoti starch is readily hydrolysed by acids and possesses a high viscosity similar to potato starch.

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Toxicity of Shoti (Indian arrowroot Curcuma zedoaria) for rats and chicks.

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Shoti is a robust perennial with fleshy, branching rhizomes; leafy or flowering shoots arise from the ends of the rhizome branches.

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Shoti is used mainly as a source of an easily-digested starch, which is rather similar to that of arrowroot, and is utilised in India on a cottage industry basis for the preparation of invalid and baby foods.

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Shoti normally takes about 10 months to produce a crop.

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Shoti seldom flowers in cultivation, but does so freely when it 'runs wild'.

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False yam (Icacina senegalensis) Giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhiza) Hausa potato (Solenostemon rotundifolius) Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) Lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera) Maca (Lepidium meyenni) Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Queensland arrowroot (Canna indica) Radish (Raphanus sativus) Shoti (Curcuma zedoario) Swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) Sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas) Tannia (Xanthosoma spp.)

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False yam (Icacina senegalensis) Giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhiza) Hausa potato (Solenostemon rotundifolius) Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) Lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera) Maca (Lepidium meyenni) Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Queensland arrowroot (Canna indica) Radish (Raphanus sativus) Shoti (Curcuma zedoario) Swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) Sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas) Tannia (Xanthosoma spp.)

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False yam (Icacina senegalensis) Giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhiza) Hausa potato (Solenostemon rotundifolius) Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) Lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera) Maca (Lepidium meyenni) Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Queensland arrowroot (Canna indica) Radish (Raphanus sativus) Shoti (Curcuma zedoario) Swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) Sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas) Tannia (Xanthosoma spp.)

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False yam (Icacina senegalensis) Giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhiza) Hausa potato (Solenostemon rotundifolius) Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) Lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera) Maca (Lepidium meyenni) Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Queensland arrowroot (Canna indica) Radish (Raphanus sativus) Shoti (Curcuma zedoario) Swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) Sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas) Tannia (Xanthosoma spp.)

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