The skin of yam can cause minor skin allergies, but you can just put your hands in warm water sprinkled with salt or vinegar for a while. Or just pour the vinegar over the allergy.
Hands itch when peeling yams or taro.
The reason: the mucus contains plant bases that sting on contact with the skin. Saponin in the skin of the yam makes the hand very itchy,
Solution:
If the hand is very itchy, you can wash your hand carefully, and then dip your hand full of vinegar, even the nail gap are dipped, after a while this itchy feeling will gradually disappear! (Reason: acid-base neutralization) can also be roasted on the fire, repeatedly turning the palms of the hands, so that the hands are heated. This can break down the saponin seeping into the hands.
Method one, yam cleaned to peel the skin when it is recommended to wear gloves
Method two: (for taro) peeling can be easy and simple, and will not get the hands of itchy! The method is very simple:
Prepare a pot of boiling water, the taro skin wash, remove the soil impurities, directly into the boiling water to boil a little. Once it's up and running, just make a light cut with a kitchen knife from top to bottom to remove the skin effortlessly!
You can soak your hands in a small amount of vinegar in a sink for 5 minutes, then grill your hands over a fire to break down the saponin on the skin of the yam that causes itchy hands. Or cut the yam into sections, soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes after taking out, you can remove the mucus from the skin of the yam, and then peeled, both easy to peel and not easy to itchy hands
Feeling strange itchy, you can use water to rinse, and then wipe dry the water stains, apply a little bit of windex and gently wipe, itchy feeling that is removed.