Yacon

The yacon is a perennial plant of 1.5 to 3 meters in height
The roots are mainly for storage spindle, but often take on irregular shapes due to contact with soil or stones from the pressure surrounding the roots. The roots have to grow adventitious nature of a developed trunk and branches made up of short and thick rhizomes simp?dicos. There are different ways vegetable, such as the white, orange and purple: and within each of the forms would have even greater variability. In Peru this diversity has been maintained thanks to its cultural and ecological diversity. These crops are heavily tied to their traditions and the topographical conditions of the Andes.

Properties:

Cash antidiabetic, for his active hipoglicemica power to reduce the level of sugar in the blood, reduces the amount of cholesterol and triglycerides (against atherosclerosis), promotes the development of bifidobacteria and in the colon bacillus subtilis, prevents the growth of rotting microorganisms that tend to cause diarrhea, stomach disorders can be corrected fairly common as acids, indigestions gastric disorders, improves absorption of calcium, stimulates the synthesis of vitamin B complex, provides low caloric content, the sugars present are not cariogenic, control constipation, increased excretion, strengthens the immune system response, prevents gastrointestinal infections.

Scientific name: Smallanthus sonchifolius