Yacon Slices
(Dried, Raw, Organic)
4 oz.
$6.95
These
raw organic yacon slices are mildy sweet. They come from the yacon
root, a relative of the sunflower. They have good health properties.
Most roots and tubers store carbohydrates as starch – similar
to glucose; yacon stores carbohydrate as fructooligosacaride –
composed mainly of fructose. The human body has no enzyme to hydrolyze
fructooligosacaride, so it passes through the digestive tract unmetabolized,
providing few calories. Yacon also acts as a prebiotic. The undigested
portion of yacon serves as food for “friendly” bacteria,
such as Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus species, in the colon.