Taro is also known as taro, taro, taro is a perennial rooted herbaceous plant of the family Tennessee, often cultivated as an annual crop.

Taro is an important vegetable and food crops, nutritional and medicinal value, is suitable for young and old nutrients; and taro starch particles as small as potato starch 1/10, its digestibility up to 98% or more, especially for infants and patients to eat, and thus have the "emperor's offerings," 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.

Native to China and India, the Malay Peninsula and other tropical places. Cultivation has long been carried out in the north and south of China. Egypt, the Philippines, Indonesia, Java and other tropical areas are also prevalent cultivation, as the main food. Because taro likes high temperature and humidity the most, the more cultivation habits to the south, the more prevalent.

Nutritional value

Taro is rich in carbohydrates, especially high starch content, and rich in group B vitamins, vitamin C, protein, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and other mineral elements. In addition taro is also rich in fluoride which is important for teeth.

1. Taro contains a lot of starch, can relieve hunger, meet the body's ability to supply; taro in the dietary fiber can help digestion, relieve the body to avoid problems.

2. Taro is rich in B vitamins, vitamin C can alleviate the body due to the lack of these vitamins lead to deficiency, but also improve the skin and delay aging and other effects.

3. Taro in the mucus protein absorbed by the body can produce immunoglobulins, improve the body's immunity; taro detoxification effect can also inhibit and eliminate the role of the body's cancerous toxins, cancer prevention and anti-cancer and other diseases have a positive effect; in addition, taro is rich in lysine, you can strengthen the male reproductive capacity.

4. Taro is rich in potassium, calcium and other elements, which can help infants and young children to grow and develop, pregnant women can also eat to promote fetal development. 5. Taro in the special fluorine elements can protect teeth, clean teeth and prevent the formation of caries.

Effects

Taro, native to India, China to the Pearl River Basin and Taiwan Province of the most planted, for the underground bulb of the Tennessee plant, taro is not only soft, nutrient-rich, and has a strong body, detoxification and prevention of cancer, teeth caries and other effects, can be used as food for hunger to alleviate the problem of hunger, malnutrition and weak resistance to improve.

1. Relieve hunger

Taro is rich in starch, starch in the body can be broken down into glucose, can provide the body's metabolic activity of energy, taro hunger can relieve hunger.

2 Enhance immunity

Mucin in taro is absorbed by the body can produce rabbit immunoglobulin, improve the body's immunity; taro has a positive effect on the prevention of cancer and other diseases.

3. Detoxification and laxative

Taro in the dietary fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, digestive, laxative detoxification effect, taro can also alleviate a variety of skin problems, there is a role in slowing down the aging process.

4. Clean teeth and prevent caries

The fluorine in taro is conducive to the utilization of calcium and phosphorus, accelerate bone formation, promote growth, but also to protect the teeth to prevent the emergence of dental caries.