Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins and saponins. Among minerals, fluorine content is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.

Taro is rich in nutritional value, can enhance human immune function, and can be used as a staple food to prevent and treat cancer. It plays an auxiliary role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation.

Taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by the human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance.

Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can help the human body correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can tonify the middle energizer.

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Taboos for eating taro;

1, eating too much taro is easy to cause indigestion.

Taro is an alkaline food, but it is acidic inside the human body. After eating taro, it is secreted into gastric acid in the stomach, which affects the gastrointestinal function and causes indigestion.

2, eating too much taro is easy to bloat.

Taro contains a lot of starch, which will produce some gas during decomposition. If taro is used in large quantities at one time, it will produce a lot of gas when it decomposes in the stomach, causing bloating.

People's Network-How to eat taro is more nutritious? Although taro is good, it is not advisable to eat more.