Taro, also known as taro and taro, is the underground corm of Araceae plants. Its shape and meat quality vary from species to species. Small taro is usually eaten. Perennial tuber plant, often cultivated as an annual crop. Leaf blade shield-shaped, petiole long and plump, green or purple-red; plant base formed a short stem, gradually accumulated nutrients into fleshy corms, known as "taro" or "mother taro", spherical, oval or massive. Mother taro has a brain bud in each section, but the axillary bud in the middle and lower segments has the strongest activity. The first tillering occurs and the formation of small corms is called "seed taro", and then "sun taro" occurs from the seed taro. Under suitable conditions, great-grandchildren or black-grandchildren taro can be formed.
Nutritive value
1. Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins, saponins and other components. Among the minerals, fluoride content is high, which has the function of dental cleaning, caries prevention and teeth protection.
2. Taro contains a kind of mucin, which can be absorbed by human body to produce immunoglobulin, or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, TCM believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and dissolve carcinogenic toxicity, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymph node nuclei.
Edible efficacy
1. Enhancing immunity: It can enhance the immune function of the human body, and has auxiliary therapeutic effect on radiotherapy, chemotherapy and rehabilitation after cancer operation.
2. Dental cleaning and caries prevention: The fluoride content is high, so taro has the effect of dental cleaning and caries prevention and teeth protection.
3. Detoxification and cancer prevention: Taro can detoxify, inhibit and dissolve the cancer toxicity of human body, and can be used to prevent and treat cancer and other diseases.
4. Beauty black hair: taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize the acidic substances accumulated in the body, coordinate the acid-base balance of the human body, achieve the effect of beauty and beauty, black hair, and can also be used to prevent and treat excessive stomach acid.
5. Help digestion: Taro is rich in mucosal saponin and a variety of trace elements, which can help the body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, at the same time, it can increase appetite and help digestion.
Purchasing Skills
Choose stronger taro with no spots. Must be well-proportioned, pick up light weight, it means less water, cut meat fine white, it means loose texture, this is the top grade. Attention should be paid to the appearance without rotten spots or there must be corruption in the incision. In addition, you can also observe the cut of taro. If the cut juice is powder, the meat is crisp and delicious. If the cut juice is liquid, the meat will not be so fluffy.