Harvesting yacon - the earth apple - from my garden. Yacon is what is known as a resistant starch, which means it survives the acidity and digestive enzymes of the stomach and ilium/duodenum, making it to the colon, where it is food for our probiotic allies. Yacon regulates blood glucose and normalises insulin production, and it is a potent prebiotic due to the high inulin content. Grate into salads, add to stir fry, roast, dehydrate, add to mash, or just eat like an apple.
My wife is on a strict diet because we are reversing (successfully) her primary progressive multiple sclerosis, and she used some of the yacon today as the sweetness in some brownies. They were really very, very good.
Restrictive diets don't mean we have give up comfort foods - we just have to be a little more inventive.
