The Final Touch: Asparagus and boiled red parsley potatoes are a perfect vegetable and starch to serve with this dish.

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While potatoes are technically a vegetable, your body treats them more like rice or bread because of their high starch content.

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For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.

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