Konjac was called Konjac in ancient times, also known as Konjac head, ghost head, ghost taro, Tennessee perennial herb. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: out of Sichuan, Jiezhou also have, called for the ghost head, Minzhong people also planted, it is appropriate to dig pits under the shade of the tree species planting. According to "Zhuxi County" records, the county planting began in Ming Chenghua years, has a history of more than 500 years.

Konjac is the function of the peculiar medicine. Called "stomach soup scavenger", known as "heavenly medicine". Konjac has a high-quality dietary fiber, low-calorie, low-fat, low-protein and absorbent, expansion force, etc., not only is the human body health needs, on behalf of the world's new trends, taste pleasant variety of functional food, light food, but also has a lowering of blood lipids, lowering of blood glucose, detoxification, swelling, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, phlegm, knotting, stasis, etc., on obesity, constipation, fullness, lungs, cold, hyperlipidemia, High blood pressure, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, etc. have better or special efficacy, but also can prevent and control intestinal cancer, esophageal cancer, brain tumor.

Our specialty here is konjac, but it is not a fruit, need to be processed in order to eat, before people are used as a dish, fried to eat, or under the hot pot to eat. Now developed a lot of products out of the konjac powder ah, drink ah, vermicelli ah, pastry ah ...

As for how it looks, it's a plant, and we eat its tubers.

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Here is a picture of a variety of konjacs, the leaves are green, the rods are spotted, and the tubers are underground. The stems, like the taro, are black.

General people feel very curious about it, we are used to things here, however, the nutritional value of the plant is very good, and not expensive.