White groundnut generally refers to jicama, which is high in sugar.

The edible part of jicama is the fat tuberous root, the tuberous root is rich in nutrients, its skin is thin and tough, the flesh is white, tender and crispy, sweet and juicy, containing sugar, eat without dregs, and a little soy flavor, can be used as a fruit to eat raw, when frying, stewing, cooking or making starch for consumption. Jicama is native to southern China and Mexico, North and Central America, China to Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan and Taiwan cultivated more.

Java like warm, sunny environment, like high temperature, not cold, the soil requirements are more stringent, require deep, loose, well-drained sandy loam, not suitable for planting in the sticky, poor permeability conditions of the soil. The propagation method of bean potato mainly has cuttings and tuber propagation, generally use tuber propagation is easier.

Selection of sweet potatoes

1, to see the size of the head of the sweet potatoes, generally want to choose a large sweet potatoes, because large sweet potatoes from the soil to absorb enough nutrients, eat crisp and delicious, and a small sweet potatoes eat the feeling as if it is chewing wood residue like.

2, to pick the java above the leaves, generally large java can be divided into several leaves, there are leaves of the java eat crisp and delicious, a lot of water, give a person a good taste, and not divided into the leaves of the java eat is not so refreshing.

3, look at the bean potatoes above the stem is thick or thin, we have to pick a thin stem of the bean potatoes, and the stem below the bean potatoes is very large, because this bean potatoes absorb the full nutrition. If the stem above is very thick and the jicama underneath is very small, this kind of jicama will be very unpalatable.

4, the bean potato in the hand to see its head and its actual weight is not consistent, if a large, but in the hand is very light, such a bean potato may be put for a long time, the water is evaporated. If you take in the hand is very heavy, that water is very sufficient, eat up is certainly crisp and delicious, the flavor is very good.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Jicama