A, taro effect and role

1, anti-atherosclerosis, improve immunity

Taro contains a large number of vitamins, plant fibers and a certain amount of mucus protein, with the prevention of atherosclerosis and the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Eat taro can also improve the body's immune system, contains mannose anhydride and good dietary fiber has anti-cancer effect, and can prevent constipation and reduce intestinal absorption of fat.

2, eliminate canker sore. Taro contains a mucus protein, absorbed by the body can produce immunoglobulin, or antibody globulin, can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxification, the human body canker sores and poisons, including cancerous toxins have inhibited the role of elimination, can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphatic tuberculosis and other diseases.

3, beauty, neutralize stomach acid. Taro is alkaline food, can neutralize the body's accumulation of acidic substances, adjust the body's acid-base balance, produce beauty, black hair, can also be used to prevent hyperacidity.

4, enhance appetite, digestion. Taro is rich in mucus saponin and a variety of trace elements, can help the body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, at the same time can enhance appetite, help digestion, so Chinese medicine that taro can be complementary gas.

5, taro contains minerals, fluorine content is higher, with teeth caries, protect the role of teeth.

Two, taro food tabo

1, taro texture soft, favorable intestinal absorption, and easy to have a sense of satiety, very suitable for the elderly to eat.

2, lymph node enlargement, benign tumors, as well as women's breast hyperplasia is particularly suitable for eating taro.

3, all kinds of cancer patients should eat.

4, suitable for chronic constipation people eat.

5, and rice porridge is very suitable for consumption, both wide stomach and intestines, and people do not hunger.

6, avoid eating too much at once.

7, diabetics should not eat.

8, avoid eating raw, raw is poisonous, should be cooked or steamed.

Extended information:

Taro belongs to the family of Amanita muscaria perennial rooted herbaceous plants, often cultivated as an annual crop. Taro was first produced in China, Malaysia and the Indian Peninsula and other hot and humid swampy areas, is now widely cultivated around the world. China's taro resources are extremely rich, mainly distributed in the Pearl River, Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin.

Taro is an important vegetable and food crops, nutritional and medicinal value is high, is suitable for young and old nutrients; and taro starch granules as small as potato starch 1/10, its digestibility up to 98% or more, especially for infants and sick people to eat, and thus have the "emperor's offerings" of the name. In addition to the main use of starch, taro can also be used for vinegar, brewing, separation of proteins, extraction of alkaloids and so on.

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