Efficacy of Yam

Yam (Pachyrhizus erosus) is an annual liana which can reach lengths of 4-5 meters, while the roots can reach 2 meters. Spread and twisted trunk, with fine hairs that point downward. Plants originating from tropical America are included in the tribe of legumes or Fabaceae.

Efficacy of Yam

Yam plants form root tubers (cormus) round or rounded like a top with a weight can reach 5 kg. Tuber skin thin pale yellow and white interior with fresh slightly sweet liquid. Tubers contain sugar and starch as well as phosphorus and calcium. These bulbs also have a cooling effect because they contain 86-90% water content. The sweet taste comes from an oligosaccharide called inulin (not insulin!), The human body cannot digest.

Efficacy of Yam :

For bones & teeth : Tubers contain sugar and starch as well as phosphorus and calcium are very well taken to maintain the consistency of bones and teeth.

For skin : These herbs also have a cooling effect because they contain 86-90% water content. Because it has a cool effect that can be used for lowering fever & beauty of skin that is used as a scrub to make skin fresher and more greedy white where dead skin cells will be lifted along with it scrub Yam.

For diabetics : The sweet taste comes from so-called inulin oligosaccharides. Inulin has been used in several countries as a substitute for sugar and calorie-lowering diet. Due to the nature of undigested inulin is then suitable to be consumed by diabetics.

For patients with constipation : Another important efficacy of inulin is a dietary fiber. The nature of this effect on bowel function (constipation sufferers) and improved blood lipid parameters (patient hypercholesterolemia). Insulin and oligosaccharides as a prebiotic called because it selectively stimulates the growth and / or activity of various types of intestinal bacteria that can improve health.

Nutrient Content of Substance Yam per 100 grams:

Energy 55 cal

Protein 1.4 g

0.2 g fat

Carbohydrates 12.8 g

Calcium 15 mg

Phosphorus 18 mg

Vitamin A 0 SI

0:04 mg Vitamin B1

Vitamin C 20 mg

0.6 mg iron