1 Taro is boiled or steamed

Taro can be steamed or boiled.

Taro is best suited for steaming, directly steaming until soft, the nutritional value of the most fully retained. Some people like to do plucked taro and fried taro chips, in fact, are not the best way to eat, because taro contains more starch, and starch oil or sugar, may make it easier to get fat.

2 taro steamed fast or boiled fast

1, hot water boiled taro due to taro heating up too quickly, cooked in a shorter time, cooked out of the taro in the water content is very low, more dry, loose, and steamed out of almost, and cold water boiled taro due to the temperature slowly rising, cooking time is also longer, taro absorbed more water, more soft and sticky.

2, cooking taro takes longer, if the time is tighter, you can put the taro into the boiling water to cook, so that the taro warms up very quickly, the cooking time will be shorter, generally half an hour to cook through, and cold water to cook taro at least 40 minutes.

3, and hot water cooked taro drained more particles dry, very loose, and steamed out of the same, more suitable for porridge consumption.

3 eat steamed taro benefits

1, taro is alkaline food, can neutralize the body's accumulated acidic substances, adjust the body's acid-base balance, resulting in beauty, black hair, but also can be used to prevent hyperacidity.

2, taro rich nutritional value, can enhance the body's immune function.

3, taro contains a mucus protein, absorbed by the body can produce immunoglobulin, or antibody globulin, can improve the body's resistance.

4, taro is rich in mucus saponin and a variety of trace elements, can help the body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by a lack of trace elements, at the same time can enhance appetite, help digestion, so Chinese medicine that taro can be supplemented with gas.