Yacon is an underground fruit and a new type of high-grade medicinal fruit. It is rich in amino acids needed by human body, with more than 20 kinds of amino acids and rich in minerals. It looks like sweet potatoes and tastes sticky, but many juices are clear and delicious. Yacon can clear fire and clear heat, regulate stomach and intestines, soften blood vessels, eliminate phlegm and resist bacteria, promote blood circulation, and has a good effect of lowering blood pressure. Enhance immunity, yacon can promote the synthesis of vitamin B family in human body, thus improving the metabolic level, enhancing immunity and disease resistance, and promoting the absorption of calcium, magnesium, iron and other substances.

Saussurea involucrata can also regulate blood sugar, because it contains a sweet fructooligosaccharide, although it contains carbohydrates, but it is rarely absorbed by the human body, so it can be eaten by diabetics and people who want to lose weight or are losing weight. Yacon can not only regulate blood sugar, but also regulate blood lipid and cholesterol, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and obesity. Yacon looks simple and ordinary, but it is eaten in a variety of ways. It not only has the health care functions of cooling and annealing, clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and moistening intestines, and softening blood vessels, but also is a delicious food in restaurants. Yacon stew or boiled soup has become a nourishing food for aborigines in winter. Soup will be more fragrant and delicious, and it can also stimulate the appetite and strengthen the spleen.

Yacon also has the function of regulating blood, which can reduce blood sugar, blood lipid and cholesterol; Can be used for preventing and treating hypertension and diabetes; It also has certain curative effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and obesity. Yacon is rich in water-soluble dietary fiber and has the highest content of fructooligosaccharides in all plants. Fructooligosaccharides can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieve constipation, not only eliminate constipation, but also prevent diarrhea. Yacon can also resist oxidation, scavenge free radicals and achieve beauty effect; It can also reduce or avoid the occurrence of lithiasis.

Pregnant women eat yacon to satisfy their appetite and supplement their nutrition. Because yacon is a cold food, pregnant women should not eat more cold food. Saussurea involucrata can be given to patients with fructose urine, which is very suitable for eating. Saussurea involucrata has obvious effects of improving intestinal function, preventing constipation and diarrhea, reducing blood lipid and improving human immunity.