Yacon is delicious, rich in water, sweet and delicious. Durian fruit not only tastes delicious, but also has high nutritional value, which can promote food digestion, fight free radicals and delay aging. Specific benefits include promoting food digestion, containing a lot of water-soluble dietary fiber, among which the content of fructooligosaccharides is the highest among all plants, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, achieving the effect of relaxing bowels and eliminating chronic constipation.

Yacon is a perennial herb of Compositae, also known as Jerusalem artichoke, Saussurea involucrata and Japanese ginseng fruit. Its stems are erect, round, purplish red, clustered and 2-3 meters high. Leaves opposite, broad heart-shaped, rough surface, slightly thick. The leaf length is 25-30cm, the width is15-20cm, and the petiole length is 7-12cm. The head is clustered at the top of the stem, with 3-6 disks, tongue-shaped flowers and yellow. Achene fibrous roots, distributed in the plough layer 5-30 cm. The root tuber is spindle-shaped. Tubers are attached to the rhizomes irregularly, and the epidermis is pink.

Yacon tubers are juicy and have no residue. Not only can it be peeled and eaten raw as a side dish, cooked food can be fried with shredded pork, hot pot, stewed chicken or ribs to make various delicious dishes, but also can be processed into preserved fruit, crisp fruit, jelly, fruit cake, canned food and so on. Leaves and petals can be used as fruit tea, which can be brewed and drunk; Its stems can be used to make high-quality feed.