Poi was Re: New member hoping for some adive for daughter.

[Guest guest]

I think I must have first heard about this product/website on this

list, but I'll risk repetition since the topic has come up.

There's a company in Hawaii who is selling poi (tarodream). I

contacted them almost a year ago and I'll include some of their

response below. I haven't yet tried the product (haven't checked to

see if it's available locally yet).

http://www.tarodream.com/about.htm

From the company president:

Taro Dream is similar to yogurt in that we pasteurize (minimally) to

insure that there are no pathogenic bacteria, yeasts and mold and

then we re-inoculate with valuable traditional poi cultures that

produce beneficial fermentation compounds, substrates, nutrients and

living enzymes. Taro Dream is doubly fermented to create as many

beneficial fermentation compounds as possible.

We appreciate your interest in taro, poi and the exotic pudding

blends we make from these sacred, life giving foods. At this time we

are in the final stages of developing our product for the marketplace

and are not yet able to take orders. We will have Taro Dream®, in

two flavors, Tropical Cocoa and Pineapple Coconut, available in

health food stores in Hawaii around May of 2005. We hope to be able

to distribute to the mainland as soon as possible after that, but we

need your help to do so. Share our website with friends, health food

store owners, managers, buyers, and health/nutritional professionals

as you can, and ask them to write us with their interest, questions

and desire to be able to purchase this product locally. These letters

are magnets which will help us attract the resources to expand our

work more quickly and to get this delicious Hawai'i Healing Food to

more people in more locations around the country.