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 mud on the surface is washed off and the skin is removed. 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. In addition, if you eat chicken or ribs stewed with yacon, it will be delicious and a good cooking method. Snow lotus tremella soup and rock sugar snow lotus red jujube soup are also good desserts.

Besides raw food, there are many ways to eat yacon:

Fried shredded pork. The fried yacon is more pure in sweetness, even the shredded pork seems a little sweet. It's appetizing with a bowl of white rice.

Stewed yacon is also a good cooking method, especially for winter tonic. Put a few slices of yacon in the sparerib soup and stew it together. Soup will be more fragrant and delicious, and it can also play the role of appetizing and strengthening the spleen.

Another way is to chop up yacon and make cookies. Because it is sweet and does not need to be flavored with sugar, it becomes a delicious tea snack, which is also in line with the concept of modern urbanites pursuing natural green and healthy food.

Effects of yacon:

The mbth of yacon is "Argonne", which is natural and delicate. Because it grows underground, it is commonly known as "underground fruit". Yacon is a wild plant, which does not need chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and belongs to pure natural green health food. It contains a large number of water-soluble fibers, high fructose oligosaccharides, 20 essential amino acids, trace elements such as calcium, iron and zinc, and rich minerals. It is a low-calorie food with the functions of cooling and annealing, clearing blood and detoxicating. Can eliminate acne and constipation, diminish inflammation and diuresis, clear liver and detoxify, beauty beauty. Suitable for diabetics and dieters.

Dispelling cold and strengthening yang, regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding. Can be used for treating impotence, soreness of waist and knees, metrorrhagia, menoxenia, rheumatoid arthritis, and traumatic hemorrhage.

(1) Little Knowledge of Citrus Orchard: Eliminating cold phlegm and helping Yang Road. ② Addendum to Outline: Treating Cold Syndrome. In addition, Chen Hai says: Treat acne, stuffy furuncle and acne, and put one petal in decoction.

③ Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: removing cold phlegm and drinking water, strengthening yang and enriching blood, and warming uterus.

It can be used for treating male impotence, female menoxenia and metrorrhagia. ④ Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Xinjiang: dredging channels and promoting blood circulation, strengthening bones and muscles, and promoting uterine contraction. Can be used for treating rheumatoid arthritis, abdominal cold pain, amenorrhea, placenta retention, measles, cough due to lung cold, and sexual impotence.

⑤ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, treating irregular menstruation, snow blindness, toothache and traumatic bleeding. China Organic Agriculture Network