(n.) A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
(n.) A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general soluble starches were better than potato, corn, or arrowroot starch with regard to these two parameters.
(2) Click here to buy a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £17.50 Jose Pizarro’s duck breast with sherry vinegar and olive oil mashed potatoes Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Serves 4 floury potatoes 900g, peeled garlic 4 whole cloves, peeled bay leaf 1 black peppercorns 10 olive oil 6 tbsp salt and pepper sugar 25g sherry vinegar 4 tbsp palo cortado sherry 6 tbsp dried apricots 50g, finely chopped arrowroot ½ tsp duck breasts 4 x 200g, kept cold in the fridge right up until the time you need to use them For the mash, cut the potatoes into large chunks and place in a large pan with plenty of cold water.
(3) Arrowroot is the mainstay of the Negro infant's diet, while parched flour or sago is consumed by an East Indian infant more frequently.
(4) Supplementary feedings often started in late infancy include gruels made from arrowroot, parched flour, and cereal.
(5) In a separate pan, dissolve the arrowroot in 2 tablespoons of water and simmer for 1 minute before adding to the vinegar and sherry sauce.
(6) The rest were given bottled milk mixed with arrowroot or parched flour during daytime and breast milk at night.
(7) Weaning foods consisted primarily of arrowroot, potatoes, lentil soups, pumpkin, carrots, and fruits in season.
(8) The effects of the most commonly used, boiled and cooled supernatants of these liquid foods [rice (Oryza sativa)-water, ragi (Eleusine coracana)-water, arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea)-water], and tender coconut-water, and of the bicarbonate- and citrate-WHO-ORS on intestinal water transport were evaluated using a rat model of secretory diarrhoea.
(9) Serves 4 extra-virgin olive oil 4 tbsp brown onion 1, chopped garlic cloves 4, finely chopped small beetroot 8, peeled and quartered carrots 6, sliced into large pieces bay leaves 3 thyme 2 sprigs sea salt and freshly ground pepper tomato purée 2 tbsp red wine (use vegan wine if you like) 250ml vegetable stock 500ml puy lentils 400g portobello mushrooms 2-3, sliced crimini mushrooms 10 pearl onions 10, peeled arrowroot 2 tsp, dissolved in 2 tbsp water thyme a few sprigs, to garnish Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a thick-bottomed saucepan over a medium heat.
(10) All solutions either decreased cholera toxin-induced net water secretion (arrowroot-water) or reversed it to net absorption.
Starchy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the present study gives support for a protective effect associated with a fiber-rich or vegetable-rich diet, while it indicates that frequent consumption of refined starchy foods, eggs and fat-rich foods such as cheese and red meat is a risk factor for colo-rectal cancer.
(2) Potentially clinically useful starchy foods producing relatively flat glycemic responses have been identified.
(3) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(4) Universal optimum application of fluoride and substitution of starchy foods for sugary ones (or even simply judicious consumption of sugar) would alone do most of the job.
(5) The enzymes are likely to function in the depolymerization of cell wall arabinoxylans during mobilization of the starchy endosperm.
(6) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(7) Cereals and products provided the highest proportion of natural sodium while starchy staples supplied over 40 per cent of the potassium in the diet.
(8) Starchy seeds or fruits rather than leaves appeared to have been consumed.
(9) The present study investigated whether the relative preference for sweet and starchy tastes changes during the postweaning to adulthood period in male and female rats.
(10) In the resting grain most of the reserve proteins are 'packed' into the non-living storage tissue, the starchy endosperm.
(11) The low-fiber diet consisted of milk, glucose, and dextrins in liquid formula form, the high-fiber diet was composed of starchy foods.
(12) The GIs, and in particular IIs, were closely correlated with the hydrolysis rate index (HI) obtained in vitro, and this procedure can be recommended as a tool for ranking of starchy food.
(13) Category 1 includes foods that are low in Na, high in K and low in energy: fresh or frozen vegetable sources with vitamins A and C. Category 2 contains foods low in Na relative to high K and high energy: most fruit, starchy vegetables, nuts, milk and meat products, and chocolate.
(14) Different starchy foods produce different glycemic responses when fed individually, and there is some evidence that this also applies in the context of the mixed meal.
(15) Many foods which produce these effects are traditional starchy foods and so strengthen current recommendations of the diabetes association, heart foundations and cancer institutes to increase the use of starchy foods through reducing fat intake.
(16) Women with less than 1,200 kcal had lower intakes of protein, carbohydrate, fat, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin; they ate less frequently; and they ate less meat and eggs, legumes, bread, cooked starchy vegetables, milk products, desserts, added fat, and added sugar than did men and women whose mean energy intakes exceeded 1,200 kcal.
(17) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
(18) Among 31 food items considered, a few showed direct association, including starchy foods and various sources of animal fats or proteins, whereas frequent consumption of other foods, including major sources of dietary iodine (such as fish, green vegetables and fruit) gave significant protection.
(19) The research, presented today at the American Diabetes Association conference, shows that an extremely low-calorie diet, consisting of diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables, prompts the body to remove the fat clogging the pancreas and preventing it from making insulin.
(20) Several cDNAs encoding the small and large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) were isolated from total RNA of the starchy endosperm, roots and leaves of barley by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).