Corn, cassava, and wild tubers are thus important components of the diet to supplement a frequently inadequate rice supply.

Relying on his survival training, the boy could find wild tubers and legumes and fungi to sustain him.

Hopniss: North America's best wild tuber?

One of the researchers, John Bamberg, noted that these wild tubers, found in the Southwest, "represent a veritable treasure chest of genetic diversity."

The Bantu speakers ate dishes of grain, meat, milk and vegetables, as well as fermented grain and fermented milk products, while the Khoi-Khoi ate meat and milk, and the San hunted wild animals and gathered wild tubers and vegetables.

Pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion.

Next to sago, people of eastern Indonesia also consume various kind of wild tubers as staple food.

Bread, wild tubers, herbs, berries, buffalo steaks, and the abundant fish of the lake provided a healthy diet.

After that one hot meal, they subsisted on coarse wild tubers and a few young shoots.

Certain fruits were ripening, certain wild tubers swelling.