a perennial plant, Tropaeolum tuberosum, grown in South America for its edible tuber
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Amylose contents were similar among the samples: 27.60% (oca), 26.49% (olluco) and 27.44% (mashua).
Beatriz Valcárcel-Yamani, Gerby Giovanna Rondán-Sanabria, Flavio Finardi-Filho 2013, 'The physical, chemical and functional characterization of starches from Andean tubers:oca (Oxalis tuberosa Molina), olluco (Ullucus tuberosus Caldas) and mashua (Tropaeolumtuberosum Ruiz & Pavón)', Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Scienceshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502013000300007&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)