Yes, yam has the function of losing weight. It contains enough fiber, so people will feel full after eating it, thus controlling their appetite. It is a natural diet food. Secondly, yam itself is a kind of food with high nutrition and low calorie, so people can eat more without worrying about getting fat.

Yam, also known as Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea opposita, Dioscorea opposita and Dioscorea opposita, is a herbal medicine recorded in Chinese Materia Medica, and its medicinal source is the dried rhizome of Dioscorea opposita. Yam has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, helping digestion, astringing deficient sweating and stopping diarrhea, and is mainly used to treat chronic enteritis such as diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cough due to lung deficiency, diabetes, short and red urine, nocturnal emission, female leukorrhagia and dyspepsia. Yam is most suitable to be taken with Ganoderma lucidum, which has the function of preventing and treating diabetes. Yam has a great development prospect in food industry and processing industry.

Yam, eaten by human beings since ancient times, is one of the earliest plants eaten by human beings. As early as the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's poem, there was a famous sentence "Fill the intestines and eat more yam". Yam tuber is thick and juicy, sweet and soft, and sticky. Both raw and hot food are delicious. Its tuber contains crude protein 14.48%, crude fiber 3.48%, starch 43.7%, sugar 1. 14%, potassium 2.62%, phosphorus 0.2%, calcium 0.2% and magnesium 0. 14%.

Reference yam-Baidu encyclopedia