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1, taro, also known as taro, taro carrots, Tannenbaum family of plants of the underground bulb, the shape, flesh varies depending on the species, usually eaten for the small taro. Perennial tuberous plants, often cultivated as annual crops. Leaf blade peltate, petiole long and fat, green or purplish-red; plant base to form a short shrinking stem, and gradually accumulate nutrients to hypertrophy into a fleshy bulb, known as "taro" or "mother taro", spherical, ovate, oval, or tuberous and so on. The mother taro each section has a brain bud, but to the lower nodes of the axillary buds of the strongest activity, the occurrence of the first tiller, the formation of a small bulb called "taro", and then from the child taro, "grandson taro", in the appropriate conditions, the formation of great-grandchildren or grandchildren taro and so on.
2, nutritional composition
According to scientific determination, each 100 grams of taro contains:
Moisture: 78.6 (grams), ash: 0.9 (grams), carotene: 160 (milligrams), iron: 1 (milligrams),
Calorie: 79 (kcal): thiamine: 0.06 (micrograms), calcium: 36 (milligrams), zinc: 0.49 ( mg),
Energy: 331 (kJ), Riboflavin: 0.05 (mg), Phosphorus: 55 (mg), Selenium: 1.45 (mcg),
Protein: 2.2 (g), Niacin: 0.7 (mg), Potassium: 378 (mg), Copper: 0.37 (mg),
Fat: 0.2 (g), Vitamin C: 6 ( mg), :Na: 33.1 (mg), Magnesium: 23 (mg),
Carbohydrates: 18.1 (g), Vitamin E(T): 0.45 (mg), Dietary Fiber: 1 (g), Vitamin A: 27 (mg), Manganese: 0.3 (mg).
3, nutritional benefits
Taro is flat, sweet, pungent, with a small poison. It can benefit the spleen and stomach, regulate the middle qi, resolve phlegm and disperse knots. Can cure less food fatigue, scar ulcers and tuberculosis, long diarrhea and blood, carbuncle and other diseases.
Taro contains minerals, fluorine content is high, has a clean teeth, caries prevention, protection of teeth.
Taro contains a variety of trace elements, can enhance the body's immune function, can be used as a common medicinal staple to prevent and treat cancer tumors. In the process of cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation, there is a better auxiliary effect.
4, the best way to eat
Taro edible methods are many. Boiled, steamed, deterrent, baked, roasted, burned, fried, braised, fried can be. The most common practice is to cook or steam taro dipped in sugar; taro barbecue meat or taro cut into diced pieces, mixed with corn in porridge.
5, raw food tabo
Taro raw food has a small poisonous hot food should not be too much, easy to cause stuffiness or gastrointestinal stagnation.