I just tried googling the vegetables listed and satsumaimo looks like a
yam, satoimo is a taro root, konnyaku turned out to be konjac or
Glucomannan, and imoji. The first two can be found on a site about
Japanese foods-
http://japanesefood.about.com/cs/vegetables/a/sweetpotato.htm
http://japanesefood.about.com/library/pictures/blsatoimo.htm
And it turns out I just ordered Glucomannan (konnyaku or konjac) from
iherb.com, but after looking at websites I could probably have found it
much cheaper to eat already prepared in an Asian market, provided they
name it something in English I could recognize. I'll have to go look.
The benefits of Glucomannan are impressive.
http://www.shakespeare-w.com/english/konnyaku/whatis.html
Imoji is a place name, I haven't yet found it as a food on google, too
many pages, too little time.
Nancy
On May 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Tad Winiecki wrote:
Answer: I have found very little information on this myself, though I
am aware of two possible sources. The first was mentioned in a segment
from ABC news about a hyaluronic acid consumption in a village in Japan
In the 20/20 segment, "The Village of Long Life: Could Hyaluronic
Acid Be an Anti-Aging Remedy?" the town doctor attributed the
villager's long lives to "starchy root vegetables"-- satsumaimo, a type
of sweet potato; satoimo, a sticky white potato; konyaku, a gelatinous
root vegetable concoction; and imoji, a potato root. The doctor
believes "these locally grown starches help stimulate the body’s
natural creation of a substance called hyaluronic acid, or HA, which
aging bodies typically lose. This may ward off the aging process by
helping the cells of the body thrive and retain moisture, keeping
joints lubricated, protecting the retina in eyes and keeping skin
smooth and elastic. 'I have never seen anyone suffer from skin cancer
here, ' he says. 'I have seen a woman in her 90s with spotless skin.' ”
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