Can the latest snow lotus fruit be eaten raw?

Yacon is a perennial herb of Compositae, originating from the Andes Mountains of South America. It is a traditional root food of local Indians. The residents of the Andes grow this plant as a root vegetable. The root contains rich water and fructooligosaccharides. It tastes sweet and crisp. It can also be eaten as a fruit. Let's take a look at whether yacon can be eaten raw!

Can snow apples be eaten raw?

Yacon can be eaten raw. Yacon can be washed, peeled and eaten raw, or stewed chicken or ribs for soup. The simplest is raw. After picking yacon from the soil, as long as the topsoil is washed and the skin is peeled off, it can be eaten directly as a fruit. If it can be stored for two or three days after picking, it can increase the sweetness and highlight its juicy, crispy, sweet and fragrant characteristics.

Food taboos of yacon

1. Yacon is cold in nature. Those with bad stomach and intestines should eat it carefully. After eating a large amount, stomach cold, stool soup and other symptoms will appear.

2, stomach cold people eat cold snow lotus fruit has a sense of swelling, but can be eaten with boiling water bubble, most people start to eat three days have diarrhea phenomenon, but four days later will be normal, stool like a child, this is normal.

3. If yacon is eaten too much in a very small number of allergic people, diarrhea, metabolic acidosis, accelerated heart rate but decreased blood pressure, dehydration, hypoproteinemia, consciousness disorder and even shock will occur. The incidence rate is about one in one million.

How to eat snow lotus fruit best?

1. Chrysanthemum lean meat yacon

[Materials] Yacon, lean pork, dried chrysanthemum.

[Practice] ① Wash and peel the snow lotus fruit and cut it into pieces.② Cut pork lean meat into pieces, marinate with wine and salt for a while. 3. Dry chrysanthemum blooms.④ After the water in the pot boils, pour the sliced meat, yacon slices and chrysanthemum soup together. After boiling, add salt.

[Efficacy] It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. It can effectively prevent and treat facial acne and acne. It is also a natural health care product for beauty.

2. Stewed grass carp with snow lotus

[Materials] 4~5 pieces of grass carp fish bone, ginger, carrot, yacon, salt, cooking wine, 1~2 candied dates.

[Practice] ① Wash fish bones and dry them in water for later use. Peel ginger and slice them (about 2~3 pieces). Wash and peel carrots and cut them into pieces. After cutting into pieces, the surface of yacon will quickly oxidize and turn black. Therefore, it is recommended to boil them in hot water before boiling soup.② Add 1 teaspoon cooking wine to fish bones and ginger slices and fry until half-cooked.③ Yacon, carrot, fishbone, jujube and ginger are put into a pot and boiled in water for about 2 hours with salt to taste.

3. Snow Lotus Pig Exhibition Soup

[Materials] Snow Lotus Fruit, Pig Show, Snow Ear.

[Practice] ① Wash the snow lotus fruit, peel it and cut it into pieces. 2. Soak snow ears in water, remove pedicles and tear them into pieces. 3. Wash figs, wash pigs, cut them into pieces, and fish them out in boiling water.④ Pour 8 bowls of water into the earthen pot to boil, add all the ingredients to boil, turn to medium heat for one and a half hours, add a little salt to taste and drink.

[Efficacy] Regulate stomach, reduce fat and lose weight.

4. Water chestnut, snow lotus and white fungus soup

[Materials] Water chestnut, snow lotus fruit, tremella, red dates, wolfberry, hawthorn.

[Practice] ① Tremella foam hair, snow lotus fruit, water chestnut are peeled and cut into pieces, thrown into water. 2. Wash red dates and throw them into water. I happen to have hawthorn, so I washed a few pieces and threw them in. Open fire and cook. Lycium barbarum wash, finally put again, nutrition will preserve better.④ Cook until tremella is cooked, red dates are soft, put rock sugar, cook until rock sugar melts.

[Efficacy] Loosening bowel, promoting intestinal motility, removing intestinal garbage, improving constipation, preventing diarrhea, improving gastrointestinal function.