Taro is also called taro, taro milk, taro ghost, taro and taro. Taro can be used as a dish and a good medicine. Taro is mainly rich in carbohydrates, including 13%, mainly starch; It contains about 2% protein, with little fat. Taro also contains sugar, dietary fiber, vitamin B group, potassium, calcium, zinc, etc. Every100g contains starch17.5g and protein 2.2g, which is higher than ordinary vegetables and can be used as staple food. Taro also contains carotene, vitamin C, saponin and other ingredients, among which fluorine content is high, which has the function of protecting teeth. ?

The benefits of eating:

1, taro is rich in mucin saponin and various trace elements, and its rich vitamins can activate cells in the body to accelerate metabolism and have the effect of losing weight. It can help the body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion. Chinese medicine believes that taro can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi. 　

2, taro is sweet, flat, and has little toxicity, and it belongs to the intestine and stomach; Has the effects of invigorating stomach, relaxing bowels, removing toxic substances, invigorating middle warmer, benefiting liver and kidney, relieving swelling and pain, invigorating stomach and spleen, resolving hard mass, regulating middle qi, resolving phlegm, nourishing essence and marrow, etc. Indications: lump, phlegm core, scrofula, constipation and other diseases. ?

3. Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of the human body, produce beauty beauty and black hair, and can also be used to prevent and treat hyperacidity; ?

4. Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins, saponin and other ingredients. Among the minerals contained, fluorine content is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth; ?

5, taro contains a mucus protein, which can produce immunoglobulin, or antibody globulin, after being absorbed by the human body, which can improve the body's resistance. Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and digest carbuncle, swelling and toxic pain, including cancer, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis. ?

6. Taro is rich in nutritional value, which can enhance the immune function of human body and can be used as a staple food for preventing and treating cancer. It plays an auxiliary role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation. ?

Taro eating taboo:?

Children with food stagnation, poor appetite, phlegm and allergic constitution and diabetic patients should eat less taro; People who suffer from stagnation of stomach pain and damp-heat in the stomach should not eat taro. ?

In cooking application: taro can be cooked with porridge, stir-fried with rice, rice flour, taro cake, taro paste and sago dew.