Sweet potato flour can be made into taro balls or soup dumplings.

Sweet potato is rich in dietary fiber and vitamins, which helps dieters lose weight. But people with bad stomach and intestines, sweet potatoes are best eaten sparingly, it is easy for old diseases to recur. Sweet potato for middle-aged and elderly people is the solution to constipation food, with laxative effect.

Taro dumplings are a famous Han Chinese snack, belonging to the traditional desserts in Fujian and Taiwan. Taro steamed and pressed into the mud, plus groundnut flour and water mixed into a ball, rolled into a long strip and then cut into small pieces, into the boiling water until floating out of the taro ball. The taro balls are made of groundnut flour, which makes them more Q-shaped, and tai bai flour, which makes them softer.

Similar foods are also available in mung bean paste instead of taro paste. Both are one of the famous snacks in Jiufen, Taiwan. Cooked taro balls can be eaten with and in iced sugar water, and are also eaten hot in winter. In Taiwan and Fujian, many desserts such as bean curd, shaved ice, can add some taro rounds and groundnut rounds covered with it to eat together.