1. The easiest way is to eat it raw. After the yacon is picked out of the soil, it can be eaten directly as fruit as long as the topsoil is washed and peeled off. If it can be stored for two or three days after picking, it can increase the sweetness and highlight its juicy, crisp and sweet taste.

2. It is also a good cooking method to make various dishes according to the eating habits of different places.

3. Some manufacturers aimed at this market, and developed yacon tea, yacon jelly and yacon cake with yacon as raw materials, so that people can taste different yacon flavors.

4. Chop the yacon and make cookies. Because it is sweet, it becomes a delicious tea snack without sugar, which is also in line with the concept of modern urbanites pursuing natural green and healthy food.

How to make soup with yacon?

Yacon meat and bone soup

Ingredients: yacon, meat bone, ginger, fig, salt.

working methods

1. Meat and bones fly into the water, add water, ginger and figs, and cook for half an hour.

2. Add yacon and stew for an hour. Season with salt.

Yacon chicken soup

Ingredients: yacon 500g, old hen 1 hen, 3 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

Cooking method

1. Wash the old hen, chop it into large pieces, blanch it with boiling water, and drain it.

2. Peel the yacon, cut it into hob blocks and slice the ginger.

3. Fill the casserole with appropriate amount of water, add chicken pieces and ginger slices and bring to a boil. Change the pot to low heat 1 hour.

4. Add the yacon, then boil it on high fire, simmer for half an hour, and season with salt.

Side effects of yacon

1, people with severe cold and bad stomach should eat carefully. If you eat too much, you will have symptoms such as stomach cold and soup.

People with cold stomach may feel flatulence when they eat cold food, but they can eat it with boiling water. Most people have diarrhea in the first three days, and it will be normal after four days. It's normal to have a baby's stool.

3. In a few allergic people, eating too much yacon will lead to diarrhea, metabolic acidosis, increased heart rate but decreased blood pressure, severe dehydration, hypoproteinemia, disturbance of consciousness and even shock. This is a clinical proof, but the incidence of this feeling is about one in a million.

4. Eating too much yacon will flatulence and fart, which will make you depressed and uncomfortable. However, this is a good sign that yacon exerts its efficacy and regulates your gastrointestinal function.

5. Yacon contains a chemical component, namely tannic acid, also known as tannin. Yacon will turn brown when exposed to the air after being cut and peeled. The reason for discoloration is that due to oxidation, quinone polymers produced by phenols in tannins form brown pigments, that is, melanin. In order to prevent discoloration, peeled and cut yacon can be soaked in clear water to isolate the air and prevent oxidation discoloration. Therefore, to eat fresh food, peel it first and then eat it to avoid chemical reaction leading to melanin.