1, prevent arteriosclerosis and improve immunity.

Taro contains a lot of vitamins, plant fiber and a certain amount of mucin, which can prevent arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Eating taro can also improve human immunity, and the mannose anhydride and excellent dietary fiber contained in it can prevent cancer, prevent constipation and reduce the absorption of fat in the intestine.

2, eliminate carbuncle swelling and pain. Taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by the human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro has the functions of detoxification, inhibition, digestion, carbuncle and toxic pain, including cancer, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis.

3, beauty, and stomach acid. Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of human body, produce beauty beauty and blacken hair, and can also be used for preventing and treating hyperacidity.

4, increase appetite and help digestion. Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can help the human body correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can tonify the middle energizer.

5. Among the minerals contained in taro, the content of fluorine is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.

Second, the eating taboo of taro

1, taro is thin and soft, which is beneficial to intestinal absorption and easy to feel full, so it is very suitable for the elderly.

2. Women with swollen lymph nodes, benign tumors and hyperplasia of mammary glands are especially suitable for eating taro.

3, all kinds of cancer patients should eat.

4, suitable for people with chronic habitual constipation.

5, it is very suitable to cook porridge with rice, which not only widens the stomach, but also makes people not hungry.

6. Avoid eating too much at once.

7. Diabetic people should not eat.

8, avoid raw food, raw food is toxic, should be cooked or steamed food.

Extended data:

Taro is a perennial herb of Araceae, which is often cultivated as an annual crop. Taro was first produced in China, Malaysia and the hot and humid swamps of Indian Peninsula, and has been widely planted all over the world. China is rich in taro resources, mainly distributed in the Pearl River, Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins.

Taro is an important vegetable and food crop, with high nutritional and medicinal value, and it is a nutritional product suitable for all ages. Moreover, the starch granules of taro are as small as110 of potato starch, and the digestibility can reach above 98%, which is especially suitable for infants and patients, so it is known as the "emperor's sacrifice". Besides mainly using starch, taro can also be used for making vinegar, brewing wine, separating protein and extracting alkaloids.

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