The drier highlands along the centre of the island support one of the oldest farming communities in the world, surviving on a limited diet of domesticated wild root crops such as yams and taro.

Taro cake is a popular dish often served for ... where it is more often known as yam cake/kuih, or “wu tau koh” in Cantonese. It is commonly seen on family dining tables during the festive ...

Tuber crops such as elephant foot yam, taro (Colocasia), tannia, and giant taro contain large quantities of oxalates (300-7,500 mg per kg of corms on a dry weight basis). Ingestion of foods ...