1, eaten raw

Yacon is a kind of fruit, which should be eaten raw.

How to eat: first peel off the skin and then bite it directly. It tastes like a pear, sweet and crisp. If you want to be more emotional, you can cut it into pieces or pieces and eat it with a fork or toothpick.

Make salad

Yacon is a low-calorie food, so it is a good ingredient for salads, which can help people lose weight and is loved by many dieters.

Specific practice: peel the yacon and cut it into small pieces, add appropriate amount of salad dressing, mix well and enjoy, sweet and sour.

growing environment

Yacon is particularly resistant to strong light, likes medium and low temperatures and avoids waterlogging and drought. It can grow in areas where the annual average temperature is lower than 65438 08℃. The optimum growth temperature is 5-25℃, the optimum air temperature is 10-20℃, and the relative humidity is 80-85%. Tubers (i.e. seed potatoes) germinate about 2 months after sowing. When the temperature is higher than 16℃, the root tuber begins to swell, reaching the peak at 20-25℃.

Not cold-resistant, the stems on the ground will die when they encounter frost, and the root tubers are not easy to freeze below 0℃. Therefore, it is suitable for growing at the low latitude of 1000 meters above sea level, and it is foggy all the year round.