1. Wash the yacon with clear water, peel it, and eat it directly as a common fruit. It tastes tender, crisp, refreshing and sweet.

2. Yacon is used to stew chicken or ribs soup. The soup is sweet and delicious, and has the effect of appetizing and strengthening the spleen.

3, yacon chopped into biscuits, is a delicious snack.

Nutritional value of yacon;

Yacon contains fructooligosaccharides, sugar, carbohydrates, dietary fiber and trace elements. Has the effects of enriching blood and nourishing blood, invigorating qi, improving immunity, enhancing memory, nourishing yin, treating constipation, detoxicating, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and removing spots, and resisting aging.

The function of yacon is as follows:

1, promoting digestion and regulating gastrointestinal tract.

Yacon is rich in dietary fiber and fructooligosaccharides, which can promote intestinal wall contraction, regulate intestinal microecology, correct intestinal dysfunction, remove waste and carcinogens accumulated in the body to the outside, improve constipation, maintain the intestine, solve intestinal disorders such as dry stool, constipation and diarrhea, and have a good effect on treating constipation and diarrhea. Known as the "scavenger" of the human body.

2. Detoxify and reduce fire

Yacon is cold and contains many kinds of amino acids needed by human body, which plays an important role in the synthesis of protein in vivo. Eating yacon can help the liver detoxify and reduce the fire, and it can also neutralize the heat of food in the stomach, which is helpful to reduce the stomach fire and remove the symptoms such as bad breath caused by heat toxin in the body.

3. Enhance immunity

Yacon can promote the synthesis of B vitamins, improve the body's metabolic level, promote the absorption of minerals such as calcium, magnesium and iron, enhance immunity and disease resistance, and strengthen the body.

Step 4 lose weight

It is found that yacon contains no fat and starch, is a low-calorie fruit, and is a very good diet food. Studies have confirmed that yacon is mainly fructooligosaccharides, and amylase in human digestive tract does not decompose this polysaccharide, so eating yacon can make people feel full, and the polysaccharide in yacon can be easily utilized by intestinal microorganisms after entering the intestine and converted into short-chain fatty acids, thus inhibiting the fat absorption of food entering the intestine.