Taro is a common vegetable in our daily life. We eat taro tubers. Taro has a high starch content and is usually used as a staple food. It can be steamed or boiled, and it tastes good. The most common way to eat in the south is to eat in sugar water, or to eat with sugar after cooking. Of course, it can also be eaten as a dish, and it is also good and delicious. That kind of taro is loved by people because of its sticky and sweet taste. What nutritional value does it have?

Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins and saponins. Taro is rich in mucin, which helps to supplement human digestive function and improve human immunity. Taro is also rich in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, absorb water, help expand the volume of feces and accelerate defecation.

In fact, taro can not only satisfy hunger, but also be used as medicine to treat diseases.

① Strengthening the stomach and promoting digestion can strengthen the body.

Taro enters the spleen and stomach meridian, which can replenish the spleen and enhance the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. People with a bad stomach can eat it often.

"Edible Materia Medica" says that taro "cures vexation and heat, quenches thirst, makes people fat and white, stimulates appetite and relieves constipation". It can be seen that taro can not only stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, but also quench thirst and make people's gastrointestinal tract unobstructed.

② It can detoxify and reduce swelling.

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.

In the folk, if someone is stung by a bee, the most common practice is to apply taro stalks or slices to the affected area, and the effect is amazing.

③ Adjust the acid-base balance.

Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize the accumulated acidic substances in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of the human body, have the effect of caring skin and blackening hair, and can also be used to prevent and treat hyperacidity.

(4) regulating middle qi.

Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can stimulate appetite, help digestion and improve human disease resistance.

Taro is nutritious, delicious, sweet and delicious, soft and easy to digest. Proper consumption is beneficial to people's health. Most people can use it, especially the people below.

1. Taro is fine and soft, and starch granules are fine. After eating, it is beneficial to intestinal absorption, easy to feel full, and the gastrointestinal function of the elderly is weakened, which is very suitable for the elderly.

2. Taro is rich in dietary fiber. First, it can promote gastrointestinal activities, help to moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, and is suitable for people with chronic habitual constipation. The second is to adsorb cholic acid, accelerate the differentiation and metabolism of cholesterol, reduce calorie intake, control and delay the rise of blood sugar, which is beneficial to diabetic patients to control blood sugar, and diabetic patients are suitable for eating taro. Third, lack of cellulose is easy to cause many chronic diseases, and eating taro can supplement cellulose.

3. Taro is a good alkaline food, which can neutralize acidic substances in human body. For patients with gastric acid disease, eating taro has a certain therapeutic effect.

4. Taro contains special protein, which can be automatically converted into immunoglobulin after entering the body, thus enhancing human immunity, inhibiting cell canceration and reducing virus damage to cells. It is suitable for female patients with various cancers such as lymphadenopathy, benign tumor and hyperplasia of mammary glands. Eating taro also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients recovering from radiotherapy and chemotherapy after cancer surgery.

5, pregnant women eat taro has three major benefits. First of all, pregnant women are prone to partial eclipse and overeating during pregnancy, and eating taro is good for digestion; Secondly, it helps to relieve the gastrointestinal discomfort of pregnant women during morning sickness; Thirdly, it can help pregnant women to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements in their bodies.

6. The content of potassium in taro is relatively high. It can regulate the body's electrolytes and help people excrete excess sodium, thus lowering and stabilizing blood pressure. Patients with hypertension are suitable for eating taro.

7. The rich vitamins in taro can activate cells in the body and accelerate metabolism. Dietary fiber increases satiety and reduces calorie intake. People who are suitable for losing weight.

Pay special attention, diabetic patients should not eat more.

Diabetic patients should not eat more taro, because the starch rich in taro can be easily converted into sugar after intake, which is not conducive to controlling blood sugar.