Taro is also one of the traditional foods of the Mid-Autumn Festival, taro is rich in starch and nutritious. It contains lactose components, easy to digest, have stomach effect, young and old. Qing Qianlong "Chaozhou Prefecture" recorded "Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, peeling taro food, called peeling ghost skin.

Taro's nutritional value is very high, the starch content of the tuber up to 70%, both as food, but also to do vegetables, is suitable for both young and old tonic, autumn complementary vegetarian a treasure. Taro is also rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, niacin, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, saponins and other ingredients. Motherland medicine believes that taro is sweet, pungent, flat, into the intestines, stomach. It has the effect of benefiting the stomach, broadening the intestines, laxative and dispersing knots, tonifying the liver and kidney, and adding essence and marrow. It is useful in the adjuvant treatment of dry stools, goiter, scrofula, mastitis, insect bites and bee stings, intestinal worms and fetish blocks, acute arthritis and other conditions. However, it should be noted that it should not be rubbed or applied to healthy skin, otherwise it will cause dermatitis. Once occurred , available ginger juice can be gently scrubbed.