Nutritional value and edible effects of taro

After taro is cooked, it tastes powdery and delicious. Many people like to eat it. Let’s learn more about it.

Taro Introduction

Taro is the underground tuber of the perennial herb Colocasia esculenta of the Araceae family. It is native to tropical regions such as my country, India, and Malaysia.

Taro, also known as taro, has a soft texture, is sweet and sticky, has a nutritional value similar to that of potatoes, and does not contain solanine. It is easy to digest and will not cause poisoning. It is a good alkaline food. It can be eaten as a staple food, steamed and dipped in sugar, or used to make dishes and snacks. Therefore, it is a favorite root food. In Guangdong and other places, eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing custom.

Nutritional value of taro

1. Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, niacin, vitamin C, B vitamins, saponin and other ingredients. Among the minerals it contains, the fluorine content is relatively high, which has the effect of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth;

2. Its rich nutritional value can enhance the body's immune function and can be used as a common medicinal food staple for the prevention and treatment of cancer. It plays an auxiliary therapeutic role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its recovery process;

3. Taro contains a kind of mucus protein, which can produce immunoglobulin, or antibody globulin, after being absorbed by the human body, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, and has an inhibitory and dissolving effect on carbuncle, swelling, pain, including cancer toxins in the human body, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymph tuberculosis and other diseases;

4. Taro is an alkaline food that can neutralize the acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the body's acid-base balance, produce the effects of beautifying the skin and blackening the hair, and can also be used to prevent and treat hyperacidity;

5. Taro is rich in mucus saponins and a variety of trace elements, which can help the body correct physiological abnormalities caused by trace element deficiency. It can also increase appetite and aid digestion. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can replenish the middle and benefit Qi.

Effects of taro consumption

Taro is sweet and spicy, neutral in nature, slightly toxic, and enters the intestine and stomach meridians;

It has the effects of nourishing the stomach, widening the intestines, relieving constipation, detoxifying, nourishing the liver and kidneys, reducing swelling and relieving pain, nourishing the stomach and spleen, dispersing knots, regulating the middle qi, resolving phlegm, and replenishing essence and marrow.

It is mainly used to treat lumps, phlegm nodules, scrofula, constipation and other diseases.

Taro is suitable for people

It is edible for the general public

1. Especially suitable for people with weak body;

2. People with phlegm, allergic constitution (urticaria, eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis), children with indigestion, poor appetite, and diabetic patients should eat less; people with indigestion, stomach pain, dampness and heat in the stomach should avoid eating

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